TBH, I don't like the new 3DMark. It's a pain in my ass to have to run all the tests individually for reviews.
Why would you run all the tests? Vast majority of them are pointless for any modern hardware. Any specific system, at most two *maybe* three of the tests are in any way relevant. Which exact tests are best for the use case depends on the hardware, but in just about any case you would want to pick and choose what to run.
If you are doing reviews and are a press user, contact
press@futuremark.com for pro edition - you can script it via command line to do exactly what you want.
Make sure you have all the tested installed properly (you need to check the library page in STEAM) so that it looks like this:
Seems now that UL bought Futuremark, all the tests are DLC.
UL has nothing to do with this.
3DMark getting bigger does. Time Spy is going to add quite a bit to the install size because shiny DX12 next gen. If we didn't split the benchmark into separate bits, next complaint would be "why do I need to install this extra 2GB+ when I don't even have Windows 10?"
Basic Edition will unfortunately be one big blob still, but even there you can limit the disk use after install if you are sure you don't need certain tests by just deleting the relevant DLC file after unzipping but before install.
Oh ok. Well I actually don't know if that's the case or not either. It doesn't seem to be. With the Steam demo version at least. I get 0 tests on my Windows 10 PC with the non Steam demo versions. And to be honest I've been so frustrated with this whole conundrum I haven't even tried running any of them besides Ice Storm Extreme yet(since that's new in the last 2 versions of Basic Edition). The Steam demo shows that I have Ice Storm, Ice Storm Extreme, Cloud Gate, Sky Diver, and Fire Strike(no Extreme or Ultra) available. Now I'm going to run the rest and see if they work. They'd better, or Futuremark's going to be hearing about that too. Since they've always been available and all worked before(in previous versions other than the last 2). Barring Ice Storm Extreme(which they've just made available in the last 2 versions).
As for your install woes, here is the same thing I replied to you in our support forum (which is the right place in case of problems);
Ice Storm Unlimited is still there - it is just under "Ice Storm" as a variant (click that test and you can choose either normal or unlimited).
As for standalone issue you describe, this can happen if the installer fails to install the individual tests. I do not know why it would have happened on your PC, but few theories;
1. To properly install 3DMark, you must unzip the whole zip file into a folder first (extract all..). If you just double click the zip file, then double click the installer, the installer cannot see the DLC files that contain the test data and what you describe can happen. Edit: Also early issues sounded like a corrupt download or perhaps corrupt file at the site you were trying to download from (empty inside zip).
or...
2. You have unzipped everything and then right clicked on the 3dmark-setup.exe and chose "run as administrator". This is a bad idea because it triggers the install as built-in Administrator user, which is a bit oddball user. This is a fine user for running individual programs under admin rights, but running an installer this way can break things. In the case of 3DMark, default folder for DLC tests is under ProgramData. Whenever any user installs here, the files are available for all users. EXCEPT if Administrator (special user) installs - then no other user can write to that folder and that prevents 3DMark from working. You can choose to install the tests to some other place than the default path (installer allows you to specify that), or you can just not use the Administrator user (you should not, in general, use that user for installation in Windows or strange things can happen).
or...
3. Something else happened that caused the final step of installation - installing the DLC files that contain the tests - to fail. To figure out what went wrong, I'd need the log files of the installer. Once install completes, they are the newest files in the TEMP folder (you can see this folder by typing %TEMP% in window search box). If possible, email those logs to
info@futuremark.com and mention this thread and I'll investigate what the logs tell about the failed install.
Edit: Also if you have Advanced Edition key, you can always activate that on Steam and get the full Advanced Edition unlocked there. Sadly if you already downloaded demo, you have to re-download the whole thing if you activate Advanced. No way to avoid that because Steam does not allow DLCs in demos, so the demo is one big blob with the tests available in it, while with Advanced Edition you can install/uninstall individual tests as required.
Also if anyone has problems with Steam version not installing the DLCs, ensure that your steam client isn't waiting for some later time for doing the install you requested. Also in case of some users, the steam client may be bit broken and outright refuse to install DLCs even if they are in your account and you try ton install. We've complained to Steam about this but currently only workaround to that which we know is to.... uuh.. reinstall Steam client. And yes, you should really move the steamapps folder to somewhere else before doing it so you dont have to reinstall EVERYTHING you have installed under Steam. And I seriously wish there were an easier solution to that, but so far no reply from Steam on the issue. Luckily it appears to be rare.
