Doomtrooper said:
My IQ is not in question here (there is some that think I have the IQ of a rock)..my question comes for the obvious wording that your benchmark requires to ensure that you can take it to the bank...its called X86 in case you were not aware *which I'm sure you were.
I didn't question your IQ. I only presume that you are smarter/more clever/brighter/etc. than to really think that there is some conspiracy going on.. FYI, I saw some papers somewhere here at the office that had "x86" instead of IBM, Intel or AMD. I can't be sure if it will be used in the final copy, but I saw a glimpse of it.
Doomtrooper said:
Bapco ??
Kyro ??
Splash Screen ??
Performance Analyzer ??
Lod Bias Hack ??
Instead of me proving you wrong, you prove me wrong.
BAPCo is not Futuremark. We don't do the benchmarks (SYSmark, MobileMark etc.) - BAPCo does. We only do smaller bits and pieces to the benchmarks, but not the benchmark code itself.
KYRO... What about KYRO? is there something you haven't got an answer to? What am I missing now?
Splash Screen? What "Splash Screen" do you refer to?
The Performance Analyzer. Yes we have such a service. ATI, NVIDIA, EA etc. are companies that has used it. What about it? It gives you wrong information? I don't think so. It is based on projects from 3DMark2001 SE. The PA is working just fine.
Lod Bias Hack? Could you elaborate on that one? Or do you mean that it is unfair (or something) that people can adjust the LOD from within the drivers which makes the benchmark to improve, what, a couple of percent? Is it OUR fault that there is such an option in the drivers? There's nothing we can do about that. Blame the manufacturers for putting it in there. There is no way we can "reset to default" from within the software, nor can the software see what settings people are using.
Doom,
What exactly do you have against Futuremark anyway? :? If I find a mention of 3DMark or Futuremark here at B3D, I am 100% sure to find your name in that thread and bashing the hell out of the software and/or company. Could you care to explain why, so that I (and perhaps some others too) could understand you better?
*phew*
Magnum PI,
We do not paper launch a benchmark several months before its release. Never did, and will most probably never do. We just did release a teaser, but it was merely to tease people, and to let all the users know a release date estimate. Not to announce the benchmark with all its features and tests. Nobody outside our company (and our beta members + some under NDA) still know what the benchmark is all about. What tests, what settings, etc. So releasing some screenshots/teaser isn't what I would call a major
announcement. We announce the full software with all the data, when it is available.
If you have any questions about our company, why not check out the company pages (
http://www.futuremark.com/companyinfo/) for that. If you still can't find what you are looking for, why not email to someone from the company? The proper contact information can be found at
http://www.futuremark.com/companyinfo/?contact.
Bjorn,
The idea with the BETA program is to stay unbiased and to keep all players on the same level. It makes the benchmark development so much more clear and easy. All the companies that are listed have been working closely with us for years. To make a benchmark that works with most hardware out there isn't exactly easy. Ask anyone who makes demos/benchmarks. Thera are always some weird compatibility problems. It takes time to nail them out. The BETA program makes sure that we have even a chance to do that.
It would be impossible for us to release our benchmarks straight after the release of the DX. We need to get the final build (gold) in order to tweak out all the remaining bugs etc. It's not like we would sit and wait for the final DX, and then the next day ship the benchmark. When we get the final build of DX, we need to develope some stuff, make sure that it works on all the harwdare, check for abnomalies (if it's due to the DX, Drivers, our code etc.) and so on. It's not easy at all. If benchmarks would be easy to produce, wouldn't everyone make them?
