Video Card benchmarking applications

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I have recently began to organize a Benchmarking/Case-mod contest at our local lan party. I have been looking for a application to benchmark video cards. Aquamark is our current going application, but I was wondering if there is anything more effective out there? The crowd i'm appealing to can be very complaining, they claim 3dmark of any kind is nvidia favoritive, so i'm looking for something that isn't favoritive in anyway (rumored or true, i don't want to deal with yelling kids again). Is there anything out there?
 
FEAR has a built in Performance Test

HL2 Lost Coast has a built in Stress Test

You can record timedemos in Quake 4
 
I'm kinda looking on the lines of a application I can put on a cd (burn cd's for everybody in the contest, and hand them out) and install without having to have a game installed.
 
Anything that would run directly from a cd would be bottlenecked by your cd rom's transfer rate.

No matter what program you use, you will have people bitch that it is favoriting the other brand of card.. just stick with 3dmark.
 
I'm not looking for something to run from a cd, i'm looking for a application that I can just put the executible installer on a cd and hand them out, if somebody doesn't have it, now they do. A stand-alone benchmark program.

Aquamark seems to get a bit better response from the people here then 3dmark
 
How about the new X3 Reunion Demo? It has a benchmark mode, let's you set resolution, aa etc... and is quite demanding in some of the tests, and looks just real good, plus it is based on a real game.

You can burn it to CD's and everyone can install it and use it, it outputs a TXT file in the benchmark mode.

http://www.egosoft.com/download/x3/demos_en.php
 
Yeah, 3dMark 2005 was a little biased toward AMD/nvidia setups...

The X3 demo's a good bet. :)
 
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