3D Mark Vantage - Screenshots

Cant say i care as its vista only.. looks more like a cheap doom3/quake4 ripoff it will probably by FPS scenes in a ship looking silly as in 03.
 
Another behind the scenes MS ploy to get us all to buy Vista? Wonder how much money they dumped into Future Mark to get this DX10 only? :rolleyes:
 
Wolf-R1 said:
Another behind the scenes MS ploy to get us all to buy Vista? Wonder how much money they dumped into Future Mark to get this DX10 only? :rolleyes:
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well i will enjoy 3dmark 2008 and anjoy seeing future dx10 tech running.... while u guys cry n moan about VISTA...

i guess you can stick with XP until 2015
 
Do you think maybe Microsoft shoveled some money up Futuremark's posterior?

The shots look great though, and it's a shame we don't get games like that on PC anymore (epic space opera).
 
Gee, devolving into a Vista hate thread, who'd have thought? People need to get over that crap.
 
Wolf-R1 said:
Another behind the scenes MS ploy to get us all to buy Vista? Wonder how much money they dumped into Future Mark to get this DX10 only? :rolleyes:
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Probably nothing. They already have a DX9 benchmark, it's called 3dMark06. If it makes you happy, ask them to make a version of 3DMark Vantage that will run on DX9, so you can watch it skip half the tests.

Seriously, this is nothing new. All 3DMarks have required a minimum version of DirectX, it just so happens that this time, the version of DirectX required supercedes that available to Windows XP.
 
Wolf-R1 said:
Another behind the scenes MS ploy to get us all to buy Vista? Wonder how much money they dumped into Future Mark to get this DX10 only? :rolleyes:
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I hope they dumped a lot. I'm still looking forward to see how a DX10 only application will run on Vista as opposed to a DX9 one with some DX10 effects added.
 
And many of our current systems won't be able to run 3DMark Vantage at all.

Futuremark requires a minimum of a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 540 CPU with 1GB installed system RAM and a 256MB graphics card (that card must support full DX10/SM4.0 functionality in hardware) in order to run 3DMark Vantage. However, at least a C2D E6600 CPU, 2GB or more of installed system RAM and a 512MB DX10/SM4.0-compliant graphics card is recommended for 3DMark Vantage. And Windows Vista is required because DX10 is currently unavailable to users of Windows XP.
 
E4g1e said:
And many of our current systems won't be able to run 3DMark Vantage at all.

Futuremark requires a minimum of a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 540 CPU with 1GB installed system RAM and a 256MB graphics card (that card must support full DX10/SM4.0 functionality in hardware) in order to run 3DMark Vantage. However, at least a C2D E6600 CPU, 2GB or more of installed system RAM and a 512MB DX10/SM4.0-compliant graphics card is recommended for 3DMark Vantage. And Windows Vista is required because DX10 is currently unavailable to users of Windows XP.
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Yeah. Just like when 3dmark 2001 really wouldn't perform well without TnL, or like when 3dmark 2003 wouldn't give a good score to a card without DX8 support, or like when 3dmark 2006 would give poor scores to PS 2.0 cards, even the x800 series, because PS 3.0 was all the rage.

There's a reason why they call it FUTUREmark: hey are predicting your system's performance in future games, and are simply giving you an idea of what the card is capable of.

Futuremark is going to support DirectX 10 with a new release just like all the other major DirectX releases. The big difference here is, DirectX 10 is the first major update requiring an operating system update, so this test will be Vista-only. If you want to complain about this, go bitch at Microsoft for making DirectX 10 Vista-only.
 
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