will you use 3dmark "vantage"?

Will you PAY to use 3dmark "vantage"?

  • Yes

    Votes: 31 20.4%

  • No

    Votes: 81 53.3%

  • I'll steal it!

    Votes: 40 26.3%
  • Total voters
    152
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likewhoa

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Coming out today and being dx10 only. "sorry VISTA haters". There are 3 different commercial copies and what it's interesting is the price of the Pro version, I wonder if that ones doesn't have ADS!!11!!one :rolleyes:

  1. Trial (free) "limited to only one benchmark"
  2. Basic ($6.95)
  3. Advanced ($19.95)
  4. Professional ($495)

Maybe I'll buy it but I will probably just borrow it :D

Edit: I won't be buying this product because the free version simply does not go through all the benchmarks.
 
I want to try it once just to see the pretty graphics, of course :)
 
likewhoa said:
Well you will have to buy the Basic $7 version if you want to see all the benchmarks :D as the FREE version only runs one of them.
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Ah true... Well... Definitely not paying for it... But I want to see all of the tests... ;)
 
lol... $495... are they joking? who in their right mind would pay $495 for this??

who could justify that much money for something that essentially does NOTHING..
 
It's a version for IT journalists and magazines who use it in work to earn money.

But well I'm gonna stick to free version only, no way I'm gonna waste my cash on such junk - looks like not even crap load of commercials on orb and in program is enough to satisfy their greed.

Sure $7 is little cash but i can get myself bunch of MTG cards instead for example :D
 
LOL. Having a professional version that costs $495 is just going to encourage piracy, since it's that much juicier to pirate expensive software.
 
dochmbi said:
LOL. Having a professional version that costs $495 is just going to encourage piracy, since it's that much juicier to pirate expensive software.
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Well that just show you one or two things.

  1. there is good profit in doing reviews/benchmarks.
  2. they want to rape the reviewers/benchmarkers

I go with the latter.
 
I'll run it once to get a score and see the pretty slideshow :) Then I'll probably uninstall it.
 
I'll try, but pay, never.
Can anybody explain why does the professional edidtion costs simply above 2400% the advanced version??
I really can't imagine what it'll do to worth the $500.
 
so no free benchmark which comprehensively tests ones system in a manner comparable with other users?

sounds like a useless benchmark.

i could understand a fixed resolution and zero options, but at least 2006 gave one a 'useful' result!
 
I'll try it, but not buying. Not worth it.

They should start bundling it with (more?) graphics cards if they really wanted people to use it.
 
They typically bundle the Advanced version with motherboards.
I run 3DMark when curious how a hardware change effects the different tests.

I'll purchase the Advanced version of Vantage for the same reason. I've always run the new ones to see what cool effects they will come up with next.

I've never bought into the "if a card does well in a benchmark, it equates it's performance in real gaming usage."
 
I'll probably put in for the Advanced version too. I've never used 3dmark as a comparison tool - haven't submitted a single ORB score ever since 3dmark2001SE. But I've found it extremely useful as another tool in the box for measuring stability and evaluating overclocks. The various synthetic tests came in really handy when determining the effect of overclocking the shaders/core/memory separately on my GTS. The feature tests this time around look to be equally useful.
 
Getting mine now... (With an official Advanced Registration Code) :)

I went with USA server 2.

449MB total, 19 minutes to go! :cool:

Slooooow though, Vista is reporting 251KB/Sec.
 
Brent_Justice said:
My pants are around my ankles in anticipation
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You should be grateful, it will make your job so much easier, just post a vantage score, no more gameplay evaluations, no need to carefully pick games that push the video card, no need to play the entire game and finding the best playable settings, no trying to convince people that gameplay evaluations are better and benchmarks suck.

You could have a full review in under 20 minutes, and all of that for less than the price of 2 8800GTS.

If that not a bargain I don't know what it is.
 
So the free version no longer lets you run enough tests for a score? I won't be using it then, I always ran the older versions, but it's not like benching is so important to me that I'd pay for it.
 
I'll try the free version on my laptop just for the hell of it. The only DX10 card I have is an 8600m GS, should prove to be interesting :D Wonder how low that fps counter will go? hehe
 
Stoly said:
You should be grateful, it will make your job so much easier, just post a vantage score, no more gameplay evaluations, no need to carefully pick games that push the video card, no need to play the entire game and finding the best playable settings, no trying to convince people that gameplay evaluations are better and benchmarks suck.

You could have a full review in under 20 minutes, and all of that for less than the price of 2 8800GTS.

If that not a bargain I don't know what it is.
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Because you buy video cards to play games, not benchmarks. A 2900XT will yeild you a higher score than an 8800GTX. Therefore it must mean the 2900XT will play crysis better... Right? yes or no.
 
Simpson5774 said:
Because you buy video cards to play games, not benchmarks. A 2900XT will yeild you a higher score than an 8800GTX. Therefore it must mean the 2900XT will play crysis better... Right? yes or no.
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I thought a regular poster would recognize a a sarcasm ;)
 
I've always felt that benchmarks had their place. If I tweak my memory settings or something little like that, I always run a few programs afterwards to make sure there was a real improvement, and generally 3dMark was the first one. Comparing numbers between systems really doesn't mean all that much, but if I flash a new BIOS and my score goes up a few hundred points I will generally look at it as a good thing. So yes, benchmarks have their place, but generally their place is in the "free" category, especially if the website I have to go to in order to look at my results is covered in ads. I'd like to see all the eye candy that my computer can only render at 2fps, but I'm not paying for the privilege. Someone want to post of video of the prettiness on YouTube?

On a side note, if their goal is to bring every computer to its knees, couldn't they just license the Crysis engine?
 
Performance isn't as bad as I expected, I was averaging in the low teens for the 4 main benchmarks and that with a q9300 @ stock and a plain 8800GTX.

Some nice lookin stuff, to me anyways and it did not make a whole lot of difference in performance from changing the rez from 12x10 to 1080p since I'm using a Westy 37" or upping the qualtity of the textures and what not.
 
I edited the thread question as I think some folks are not aware that they have to pay for the full version.
 
Also to mention there is some cloth action in the first benchmark and one of the graphic features test is cloth flags.
 
Devistater said:
They also may not be aware that the free version will only do a SINGLE run, anything more you gotta pay.
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Yeah, does not exactly behoove it to be a good tweaking tool, but then again ePeenMark 2001/5/wtf is still good for that.
 
3Dmark has its place for sure. Some of us like using it to tweek and compare. It isn't the be-all-and end all no more thenanything else. Its fun to BM and see what score you get. As for paying? Hmmm...If I found a cheap copy at BB or whatever I probally would pick one up. I got a full pro version of 2006 with my video card so hopfully the same will happen with this version too!
 
vengence said:
I'm not sure which is worse, Kyle's comment is dead on or my first thought is "I wonder if ePeenMark is trademarked yet, and if not I should really look into that" :(
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Search away:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=97kn5.1.1

maleficarus said:
3Dmark has its place for sure. Some of us like using it to tweek and compare. It isn't the be-all-and end all no more thenanything else. Its fun to BM and see what score you get. As for paying? Hmmm...If I found a cheap copy at BB or whatever I probally would pick one up. I got a full pro version of 2006 with my video card so hopfully the same will happen with this version too!
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But now the free version will only let you get a SINGLE run of scores. So not much good for tweaking. And I doubt any video card is going to include the $500 pro flavor of this version of 3dmark. In fact, you probably only got the advanced version of 2006, not pro. The advanced is a $20 software, the pro of even 2006 is $500.

If you are wanting to PAY futuremark for thier latest software, your best bet is probably to get the $7 basic version. I doubt that you'd find any version of the software cheaper at any B&M store. In fact, I've never seen any versions of 3dmark at a B&M store, but who knows, maybe they are all over and I just missed them.
 
Devistater said:
They also may not be aware that the free version will only do a SINGLE run, anything more you gotta pay.

Edit: One run of scored results anyway. If someone just wants to watch eye candy without a score it will let someone do that.
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Can't you just uninstall it re-download it and run it as many times as you want that way?
 
maleficarus said:
Can't you just uninstall it re-download it and run it as many times as you want that way?
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Extremely unlikely. If they are that determined to make people pay to benchmark, that would have been one of the first things they prevented.

Most trial software that have limited runs have preventive measures in place. But hey, feel free to report back on your attempts :)

BTW, even if it works, that would be an extremely painful process to go through everytime you tweak a frequency up 1 mhz or whatever.
 
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