New 3dMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage will be coming soon to really test those new DirectX 10 video cards that everyone has, not me though!
http://www.futuremark.com/3dmarkvantage/

 

wow.. nice! it looks like movie CG quality.

I hope they have some brighter stuff also though, If I'm gunna be running this test to benchmark my hardware, I dont really want to see just dark stuff all the time though. Like a realistic log cabin in a snowy forest, getting raided by the FBI or something, idk just not so many dark scenes.

 

I would like to see a scene similar to COD4 in a helicopter flying around the battlefield.

 

Nice , But damn , I hope my pc will still play those scenes at good framerates , or ill have to upgrade my graphics card to a 3870x2 or maybe a 9800 gx2

 

I believe you meant, 9800GX2 x2 SLI..

 

Wow, that looks really nice. Note that this requires Vista . . .

 

Yep, since DX10 is only Vista atm you can't test your DX10 card on a XP. ; (

 

By at the moment, you meant, it will always be part of Vista only right.

 

Nice, good new's ) can't wait

 

Well I've heard plenly of rumours it will offically come to XP at some point.
Right now there are some modified versions out there, I haven't tested any of them yet.

But bleh .. Vista isn't worth the upgrade just right now. : P

 

I think im setting that 3rd one as my desktop...

 

I just wanna know what the DX10.1 implementation will be in it, and whether it will have that hard barrier between HD3K and HD2K as if it were a GF8?

As for DX10 on XP, it's possible, but not likely. The effort required to modify it would be better spent elsewhere IMO. Of course if there's enough vocal gamers out there it might happen since the biggest barriers were made optional and moved to DX10.1 thanks in part to nV. However as such DX10.1 will be Vista only, non-optional now.

 

Considering this is a *GAMING* benchmark I am really surprised they make it Vista only. XP is and will be the gaming platform of choice for at least another year or so.

I plan on sticking with XP until Windows 7 if I can help it.

 

Wow I ran the "Can you Run iT?" for 3DVantage, and my lappy passed, but the recommended system needs a 8800 :O

 

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/?menu...id=630452&entity_id=-1&image_id=768296&page=1

As some people have pointed out, Futuremark seems to have lost their creativity since the Vantage scenes they are demoing right now is basically just a spiced up X3: Reunion. With Futuremark starting up their own gaming studio, I hope this isn't the extent of their creative ability.

 

So I guess I'll be watching these beautiful screens at about 3 fps.

 

^Yeah, I was gonna say, this is gonna be an awesome slideshow. Taking screenshots and using Windows XP picture viewer would be the same quality rofl.

 

I can already feel my 8600gt wince...