Furmark Windows 11

[Bernice Ebesugawa]

FurMarkis a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of graphics cards. Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU and that's why FurMark is also a stability and stress test tool (also called GPU burner) for the graphics card.

One of the important changes is that FurMark 2 is a command line tool (furmark.exe on Windows and furmark on Linux). The GUI (FurMark_GUI.exe on Windows and FurMark_GUI on Linux) is an optional component but it's very handy to quickly launch FurMark 2 and to keep the habits of FurMark 1.

FurMark 2 is built with GeeXLab. The GUI is a pure GeeXLab application while the furmark command line tool is built with the GeeXLab SDK. GeeXLab being cross-platform, this first version of FurMark 2 is available for Windows and Linux (the Linux 32-bit version is also available, I will re-compile it for the next update). I plan to release FurMark 2 for Raspberry Pi (I just received my rpi5 board!) and maybe for macOS too.

Java 17 (64 bit) worked fine in previous releases, and 32 bit is the first time that I test. And that 32 bit jdk is not provided by Oracle, is the zulu version. The requirements of that jdk says Server 2012 or higher, but it might work in Windows 7 too.

For XP probably not, it's a more modern computer so I wouldn't expect XP to work. Just know that there are an ACPI.sys for Windows 7 that might work. There's even the procedure to modify it, but I'm not sure if the procedure can be applied to Vista's ACPI.sys, and don't know a lot about editing such files to modify these lines.

I patched acpi.sys it and it didnt bsod on the acpi, instead it bsod on the error 0xc0000098 which is probably the NVMe so the mod might be working. Using Windows 7 for the time with the patched acpi, hoping i can do that with vista soon.

My findings after testing the new version on a somewhat period correct machine:

- msi afterburner is still broken, no error code, just "MSIAfterburner has stopped working"

- furmark 1.31 installer does not launch and every version higher than 1.21.1.0 the installer glitches so you basically have no buttons and can't do anything besides stop it from task manager

- in prime95, cinebench r15 and r20 my core 2 quad q9550 is being recognized as a 1 core 4 threads cpu but cinebench r11.5 and cpu-z do recognize it correctly; the performance isn't affected in r15 (r20 launches but fails the test) but it is quite odd (i did manually set it to 4 processors in system configuration and it is the same)

- kaspersky is back (don't care about other peoples opinion on this kgb virus or whatever they call it and i'm not russian), but i don't use firefox anymore and i remember it crashing only when using this specific browser

- minecraft 1.18+ still fails to load into worlds (this starts to happen with snapshot 21w42a of minecraft 1.18)

I need some software that works the way msi afterburner does because my gtx 770 gets hot and i can't set the fan speed to what i want

This will be the last time I harp on this, but since this ties into the Extended Kernel, that's why I mention all this. Anywho, I created an AMD Driver pack that is compatible with AMD Radeon's such as R4 Stoney Ridge and Rx xxx (Rx 570, etc). This includes everything needed to run Vista (and even XP 64-bit) on Radeon hardware. To run all this (except for the Realtek, chipset and touchpad drivers), Extended Kernel must be installed. You can get all of this here: _Assorted_Drivers_Pack.zip/file

Several days 24/7, all is fine so far on the dedicated kernel testing PC, some weirdness with chrome's explorer, no icons, look at the pic. And in local mode still can't open any explorer window, like I wrote some time ago.

I was wondering the same thing for AMD Radeon. We have the graphics driver working, but not the control panel for it. Also of note, if you have AMD Radeon mixed with anything Intel Haswell and newer, the AMD driver will not work unless the Intel graphics can be made to work as well.

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