3DMark Vantage Soon

and guess who my hardware vendor is - Oi microsoft wheres the drivers for my ms sidewinder wheel

 

While I agree the Sidewinder wheel is nice, it was also released near-exactly 10 years ago. It doesn't specifically surprise me that they aren't making drivers for it any more...

Just out of curiosity -- does it simply not work at all, or do the controls work sans force feedback? I'd tend to think the latter, but I could be wrong.

 

ive no idea i had some problems installing vista so i never tried it

 

Ah, gotcha. I'd wager all the controls work, but I'd also bet the force feedback is completely not there.

 

http://www.futuremark.com/3dmarkvantage/ has been updated with a countdown. Looks like it's gonna be available on monday. Well see then how it makes my 8800gts crawl

 

Pfft, that's nothing... Let's see how it makes my Intel X3100 crawl!

 

Ha! No DX10.1, no care

 

Well, I believe I read somewhere that one of the tests is DX10.1?
I think it's a REALLY good thing that my X3100 will skip that
Might decrease the running time of the benchmark by about a week

 

More likely to increase the amount of time before the BSOD!

 

Hell, I'm going to try it on my 8500 gt just to see if it'll implode!

 

8500GT shouldn't have any problems I'd wager.

Try it on a 5900XT is what I'd do ... if I had one

 

I'm looking forward to that as well

 

It doesn't happen in a big way with EVERY OS transition. After all the transition from Windows 98 to Windows 98 SE went fairly smoothly.

However the transition from:
Win 3.11 -> Win95
Win9x -> Win2k/WinXP
Win2k -> WinXP
WinXP -> Vista

All had notable driver problems and all had orphaned hardware. Going from Win9x -> Win2k/WinXP saw quite a few GUI based printers orphaned for example, as well as even worse driver support nightmares causing instability, crashes, BSOD's, and general inoperability than WinXP -> Vista.

Actually looking back at that list. Only the Win2k -> WinXP transition orphaned less hardware than the WinXP -> Vista transition.

Regards,
SB

 

Someone's ready for 3DMark Vantage alright

http://en.expreview.com/2008/04/25/3dmark-vantage-following-up/

 

Anyone know if DX 10.1 is used in it?

 

Vantage technical specification - http://en.chiphell.com/?p=5

All the usual suspects HDR, PCF, VSM, DOF are there. Some GPU physics too and surprisingly a PhysX focused feature test. Wonder how that's going to go over now that Nvidia owns Ageia.

 

I heard "no".

 

Is their going to be patch available for DX10.1 ??

 

Go get it:

http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmarkvantage/?from=counter

 

Ugh, looks that they have continued the trend in downgrading the free version - it requires an activation key and also looks to be a single benchmark run only!