But did it render correctly? No. The Kyro II can't support the pixel shader operations needed to render the water.
What good is adding points to your benchmark score if the result is incorrect?
On looking at my first post again I can see that I phrased my post wrongly and it sounded like adding the 300 points was the useful part. I actually meant to focus on the running of the test as the useful part and just to mention that it upped my score by 300 points. IMO being able to run the test is useful because allot of people without DX8 hardware have never seen the test in motion and now they can bar the very small use of pixel shaders.
Also this is not the progs only use, far from it. The app has a excellent in game framerate and polygon per frame/per second counter which is extremely useful. As well as performance logging where it writes framerates and polygon counts to a text file as the game runs.
Also the app can help cards without a certain feature to run a game that requires that feature to run. For instance it can help a none HW T&L card to run Spiderman, as well as future new HW T&L only games. Or the E3 Unreal II tech demo and cards without cube mapping (maybe even Doom3 if their is no option to disable cube mapping for cards that don't support that feature).
The prog has many more uses and IMO is an extremely useful app.
Nobody will know whether it rendered correctly in stupid mad onion hall of fame
Its the "My dick is bigger than yours" thing.
I don't even have my scores on madonion's database never mind the hall of fame. But your right, 3dmark2001 and especially its hall of fame is a "My dick is bigger then yours" thing and is full of cheats, pretty pointless if you ask me.
Teasy how did you make your Kyro 2 run the Nature test in 3DMark2001 SE? What settings did you use in 3D Analyzer?
I'm not at home right now, but AFAIR you need to enabled bump maping caps (this should be needed but for some reason it is), cube mapping caps and pixel shader caps. You don't need to enabled HW T&L caps BTW, infact I think the test is a little faster if you just leave HW T&L caps unticked.
Well, now we have a tool whereby people can make totally bogus results that can be reported to the rest of the world! What a wonderful tool!
Well that's certainly useful for cheats but surely your not short sighted enough to think that's all this program is useful for?, or that the possiblity of cheating with this app outweighs its other uses? After all cheating was already rife in the Madonion database long before this app came along.
But it's also a 3DMark cheater's wet dream. Too bad, really.
Yep, and the pixel shader caps thing isn't anywhere near the biggest cheat possible with this app, disabling textures for any card bar Kyro can at least double scores.
But still nobody should blame the app here, its a useful program and has many good uses. If some people want to cheat with it in 3dmark2001 then who cares, lets face it that database was full of cheating long before this app came along.
Like people dont already fake scores in 3DMark 2001 without this tool.
Exactly!
