3DMark Vantage Launch Next Week?

[jbunch07]

WOOOT! All right! Finally I can start benching my PC! 3Dmark 06 doesn't install on my vista64 pc.

really?
it runs on mine just fine???

 

[CoreDuo]

yall are going to have to except the fact that xp was an awesome OS... but its time to move on..we cant use xp forever now

If it wasn't for the fact i got a new PC i'd be too lazy to upgrade to XP. Now upgrading to Vista is the same case

 

[KainXS]

im not goin to vista screw that

 

[CY:G]

Im just hoping that it is really optimized for Multi GPU. I want to see all 3 GPUs on my system to the max.

 

[jbunch07]

Im just hoping that it is really optimized for Multi GPU. I want to see all 3 GPUs on my system to the max.

i hope it does 2... my old dual card setup scaled well in 06 but from what i hear it didn't utilize much of 3 or 4 at all

im not goin to vista screw that

no one is forcing u 2 .... just dont understand why people hate vista so much?

 

[CY:G]

no one is forcing u 2 .... just dont understand why people hate vista so much?

Well they either havent tried it and jump on the hate bandwagon or they tried it and uninstalled it because they refuse change...

or...

They tried it and found their computer slow because the HDD is getting accessed all the time, thats because it is indexing the files for easy searches, if they gave it a week they would notice that it is not so bad..., if not better.

 

[jbunch07]

Well they either havent tried it and jump on the hate bandwagon or they tried it and uninstalled it because they refuse change...

or...

They tried it and found their computer slow because the HDD is getting accessed all the time, thats because it is indexing the files for easy searches, if they gave it a week they would notice that it is not so bad..., if not better.

uhhh you can turn that indexing thing off...thats what i did

on topic
is there any word on how big this thing is going to be? and or what default setting will be?

 

[mandelore]

well this is good news!
glad i just upgraded to vista 64bit... im sure it will run quite nicely on there with a few upgrades

(hoping that its 64bit compatible, but im sure it will be, after all this is to define gaming systems for the next few years)

I didnt too long ago switch to Vista ultimate X64. waiting for the new Flex2 4gb pc2-9200 kit to arrive, then onto some benching at last (posting from an old pc and it sux ass not being able to use my rig)

 

[Assimilator]

I wonder how much Microsoft paid Futuremark to make this a DirectX 10-only benchmark. I'm predicting that Vista sales will increase dramatically over the next few weeks...

 

[erocker]

just dont understand why people hate vista so much?

I don't hate it. My computer just performs better and has less issues with XP. It's all personal preference really. I'm not switching to Vista because I'm waiting for Windows 7. With Windows 7 it's an entirely new O/S with no compatability with previous Windows versions or drivers. Pretty much what they should of done with Vista in the first place.

 

[wiak]

Windows 7 = vista on steroids nothing less, nothing more

 

[jbunch07]

I don't hate it. My computer just performs better and has less issues with XP. It's all personal preference really. I'm not switching to Vista because I'm waiting for Windows 7. With Windows 7 it's an entirely new O/S with no compatability with previous Windows versions or drivers. Pretty much what they should of done with Vista in the first place.

they should have done that with every os.
start from ground up and completely redo it not just add on and change things

 

[erocker]

Windows 7 = vista on steroids nothing less, nothing more

What? You need to start reading up I think. Nothing about that statement is remotely correct.

 

[OnBoard]

well this is good news!
glad i just upgraded to vista 64bit... im sure it will run quite nicely on there with a few upgrades

(hoping that its 64bit compatible, but im sure it will be, after all this is to define gaming systems for the next few years)

It's sadly just 32bit, but it will works like the rest on 32bit apps in 64bit OS. But they add support for PPU and don't make a 64bit version. Priorities anyone?

Wonder if 8800/9800 series can be used with CUDA on that physics test? That would be fun=higher score. Interesting to see is the 3DMark world record dudes need to get a PPU too or is that 12,5% score part more easily overcome with just higher clocks on rest of the system.

 

[mullered07]

wow great news another 3dmark thats going to tell me my computer (which ive spent a lot of money on getting it to where it is now) is shit lol yippeee

 

[twicksisted]

wow great news another 3dmark thats going to tell me my computer (which ive spent a lot of money on getting it to where it is now) is shit lol yippeee

hehehe exactely

 

[OnBoard]

Wonder if it looks good in a slideshow this time. Remember when 3DMark05 came out and people said it looked like *rap and it did look a bit weird with my 1900 score too. Well GPU upgrade later it almost ran and looked much better. Now that it's smooth It's easy to see why those with killer rigs disagreed with the rest on medium rigs on how it looked back when it was new.

 

[Megasty]

wow great news another 3dmark thats going to tell me my computer (which ive spent a lot of money on getting it to where it is now) is shit lol yippeee

LOL, & just think when 06 came out ppl were breaking 5k & were happy as hell & now if I crank up my poor old 9650 it'll break 30k. If this thing with vantage does 5k, it will be shit

 

[Exceededgoku]

I wonder how much Microsoft paid Futuremark to make this a DirectX 10-only benchmark. I'm predicting that Vista sales will increase dramatically over the next few weeks...

*sigh* if you read about 10 posts before you it's been stated that Futuremark (who are completely and wholly independent of Microsoft) like to stay on the cutting edge of technology. Guess what? DirectX 10 and Vista are the latest technologies, ergo Futuremarks latest software is DX10 and hence Vista only compatible. God... some people.....

 

[philbrown23]

nice now it's gonna be back tp 9k 3dmarks again.

 

[jbunch07]

*sigh* if you read about 10 posts before you it's been stated that Futuremark (who are completely and wholly independent of Microsoft) like to stay on the cutting edge of technology. Guess what? DirectX 10 and Vista are the latest technologies, ergo Futuremarks latest software is DX10 and hence Vista only compatible. God... some people.....

nicely said

 

[KainXS]

I installed vista and I had too many conflicts with my hardware, my tvtuner wouldn't work right and it kept on crashing when I tried to install it on my old computer so I just said screw it, and its not because they were too slow either, both can run vista ultimate with all the whistles but I could only get one pc to work properly so I uninstalled it on both and installed xp on them again.

Its frustrating because I bought my laptop and it is vista certified and when I tried to install vista it always fails and ends up with the black screen on boot and the death screen.

not to mention that it just isn't worth it, its not worth the hastle to update, especially when you lose performance for no reason, DX10 just isn't worth the upgrade.

 

[jbunch07]

I installed vista and I had too many conflicts with my hardware, my tvtuner wouldn't work right and it kept on crashing when I tried to install it on my old computer so I just said screw it, and its not because they were too slow either, both could run vista ultimate with all the whistles but I could only get one pc to work properly so I uninstalled it on both and installed xp on them again.

not to mention that it just isn't worth it, its not worth the hastle to update, especially when you lose performance for no reason

well im sorry you had a bad experience with vista it your choice and your entitled to do what ever the hell you want

i run both Vista and XP both great imo

 

[SirKeldon]

Who said GNU/Linux ?

 

[AddSub]

How reliable is this launch date? Also, it's really starting to make sense why nVidia acquired AGEIA to being with. (Tip: that fourth physics test) Other than they really wanted to keep it out of the hands of Intel or even AMD. I mean, I'm sure even AMD with its poor financial outlook could have afforded to pick up a small corporation like AGEIA for pocket change. Especially considering AGEIA was going nowhere fast on its own. Anyways, marketing and hype-wise ATI/AMD will have the Dx 10.1 capabilities in it's corner and nVidia will have beefy physics processing capabilities on it's side. Purely for consumer bs'ing purposes of course, in both cases.

And yes, Windows 7 will be pretty much Vista under the hood. Everything Microsoft has said and done indicates this. In fact, various reports and leaks on blogs and elsewhere of preview builds including the leaked screen-grabs of Milestone 1 build of Windows 7 running on top of Vista Ultimate indicate a similar architectural pathway to that of Vista itself.