3dmark Install
Kanisha Dezarn
I am trying to install 3DMark basic edition downloaded from futuremark directly. When I go to run the installer, UAC pops up needing permission, which I give it. However after about 10 seconds the installer starts running and I get this message:
After installing the app, right click the 3dmax 99.exe and select UniExtract to Subdir. You will then have the setup folder. Right click the setup.exe choose compatibility mode and choose win 95, win 98/me, should work also for that, apply and save. Then launch the setup and it will then install.
However with nvidia GTX980 in win10 the 3dmark is stuck to vsync on, even when forcing it off in nvidia control panel. So it's not possible to use this for real benchmarking unless there is some fix for that vsync? I don't know of any. But it probably doesn't make sense to benchmark recent hardware with so old benchmark anyway. I also noticed that whenever nvidia control panel is running, the benchmark aborts instantly. But if you don't have much running on the background and control panel closed, it starts correctly.
I uploaded patched binaries for old 3D Mark versions up to 2001 some time ago, VSync is disabled in 1999 and there is also installable compatibility database that restores real fullscreen on Windows 8.x/10 (though you can also use dgVoodoo).
I downloaded 3Dmark99 from the Futuremark legacy site and ran it fine without having to anything at all on my Win10 x64 setup. It does limit my VRAM on my 970 from 4GB to 1GB though. I got 57k when I ran it last night.
I just found this thread. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me (I'm trying to run the program on WinXP 64 bit). It starts, but then just sits in the memory with 7-8 MB usage and nothing appears. Tried Win95/98 compatibility, copied the DLL with no luck. The integrated ATI ES1000 "card" supports only DX6, so this is the only 3DMark I am theoretically able to run. Too bad it doesn't work.
Uninstalling and reinstalling vantage , tried using system info 5.1 as per futuremark troubleshooter RX 570 have some problems with newer system infos. , delete the vantage cache folder , clean installed latest drivers , installed latest physx , re enable hpet , installed latest chipset drivers, installed latest bios , reflash the RX 570 with the original bios. i do not know what else to do to make it run succesfully , i am at lost and i would appreciate a little help please. I can run firestrike and fs extreme no problems ?
( to make matters worst on Sapphire Nitro+ RX 570 after amd display driver 18.0.0 it detects the RX 570 as a RX 580 and it's a known problem across the web as it is a driver error that AMD has not fix yet ).
Finally i fixed the error. For you guys having this same error while running 3dmark vantage. The fix is to completely uninstall the benchmark run cccleaner and clean the registry then go to C:\ProgramData\Futuremark\3DMark Vantage\cache ( you can copy and paste this into the search bar ) , remove all the entries in that folder ( empty completely ) , re install 3dmark vantage and run as always , if by chance you get that error again rinse and repeat the same procedure as vantage has the tendency of corrupting the shaders cache files. ( do not forget to clean the registry and the vantage cache ).
But here is where my confidence in this card is shaken again. The results for the Voodoo II and the G450 are virtually identical in both 99 and 2000. I compared to previous results I gathered a few years ago from an STB Black Magic and the same exact G450 on the same exact system; but from a few years back. They should not share nearly identical numbers.
I didn't have any other video cards that have windows 98 drivers so I moved to XP. In XP I appeared to be able to install the Voodoo II but when I loaded 99 or 2000 it didn't see the Voodoo II. But it appeared to be installed correctly in Device Manager.
3dfx Voodoo2 (or any other 3d accelerator) can't work with a bare default VGA driver on 16 colors, so that's not the V2's fault. Prior to making judgments on hardware defects, always have your video drivers installed, as well as DirectX. (The last Voodoo2 drivers depend on DirectX 7, a commonly neglected installation step)
It hard locks in 3Dmark 2000 on the "adventure" benchmark with a Athlon XP 3200+. I have tried different chipset drivers and different Voodoo II drivers. It passes 3Dmark 99 on the same CPU but with a score of 2800 which compared to other scores I have on file for other Voodoo II cards is abysmally low.
Ah yes a Diamond Monster II, I have a pair of these ornery beasts and thus far the only way I have found to get them 100% working is to first install the official Diamond Monster 3d II drivers first, then you can go ahead and install whatever flavor of driver you want over them. You can then test with any Glide aware game you have ...like Unreal Tournament 99.
Diamond did some funky shit with their drivers and there is some configuration setting in there that the other 3dfx driver dont have, other people will tell you this isn't the case and they should work perfectly with any drivers but I have never not once been able to get them working 100% perfectly with 3rd party drivers unless the official ones have been installed first.
I never had the issues mentioned here. However, there are multiple revisions of that card. I have the A and B revisions in SLI. It's possible certain revisions could be more problematic. Or maybe it depends on the chipset and drivers, too. Mine run on an Abit VH6T with the VIA drivers recommended by philscomputerlab for Windows 9x and they run everything...except Archimedian Dynasty, which makes me very sad. ?
After this first benchmark, a separate company focused on benchmarking was founded, which was to become Futuremark. After releasing 3DMark99, they changed their name to MadOnion.com. Then after releasing 3DMark2001, they changed back to Futuremark Corporation. Eventually, after being acquired in 2018 by UL, they changed the name to UL Benchmarks.
With every major milestone of PC hardware and software, generally more or less coinciding with new versions of the DirectX API and/or new generations of hardware, they released a new benchmark to take advantage of the new features, and push it to the extremes.
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