3DMark gets pretty pictures
Big frickin' frigate
BENCHMARKING BOFFINS will be delighted to know that the first screenshots of the next edition of 3DMark are now officially available for wibble-based viewing pleasure.
Dubbed '3dmark Vantage', the benchmark - due out later this year - looks pretty spectacular, with a massive ship floating through space and being, err, blown up.
You can see the supernova screenshots here.
Not content with that, Futuremark has also finally added the benchmark to its roster of performance requirements, with the requirements rather heft - an E6600 CPU recommended along with a DX10 graphics card with 512MB of memory, not to mention 2GB of RAM.
Oh, and did we mention Vista was required? Well it is. So we have now. So there. µ
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Needs Vista???
Guess nobody will be using the new 3D Mark then.....Joke?
Please be a joke, thats the same minimum specs as Vista has.Well now.
There you have it. Now we have a reason to invite big brother to our computer woohoo!Now i have a justifiable reason to give my wife why i "need" that 400 OS.
Worthless benchmarking FTW!
WiCkEd
vista a decent operating system when you get used to it and i think it better then xp anyways cant wait what score i get in 3dmark 2008 i guess it calledMore api
Makes sense that to test DX10 they need to require vista, but how about them writing a OpenGL test too?Re: Needs Vista???
Does anybody wanna guess how much MS paid for that? I personally don't see why they couldn't have made an XP/DX9 version. Vista + DX10 isn't all that it's cracked up to be.Hope for their sake...
...they have an alternative product line !They're definitely not going to make money off this one ! (i'd be surprised if they even cover the cost of developing it !)
If you hadn't guessed, I won't be moving to fister, i'm undecided which way to leap yet, but it's either Ubuntu (70%) or Apple (30%)
Yeah
It requires veesta because it's DX10.needs vista for DX10
but we don't because games run slower in vista across the board, when there were promises made (in error) that DX10 would improve performancemeanwhile back in the real world DX10 is not worth the performance hit.
MS are trying to use DX10 to 'leverage' vista but it isnt working and my guess is this could favor the openGL api.
Futuremark need to do a bench for that.
And why..
..is it that the last version of 3DMark hadn't had much in the way of ground-breaking new benchmarks? 05 and 06 are almost identical. It looks like the new one will be too.Obviously the focus is on benchmarking and not pretty, new and interesting visuals, but... bolting on a few bits to old demos is boring!
Pretty small market
What percentage of gamers have Vista + a DX10 card?I meet all the hardwware requirements but there's no way I'm going to install Vista.
rat race...for points
who the hell play benchmarks ?i want to see games running fast and smooth, if i want a animated to movie i buy something form Pixar ^_^
i use vista
I use vista, and I get exact result Frame PSfor frame PS as i do with Xpin most games
so get over it and actually try the OS then shut up
vista is twice as reliable as XP ever was for me, I havent had to reinstall due to performace loss yet at all, going on 12 months now
512MB graphics?
"DX10 graphics card with 512MB of memory"I thought that was going to be the recommended amount, not required.
How many gamers are going to actually be able to run it, 10%?
Of course it needs Vista/DX10
They're called Futuremark, not Historymark