Hm... 3DMark05 is has a couple very nice looking demos, (the third crashed), but it really sucks that you can't even lower the resolution without buying it. Also, there is no sound, and there is an annoying and distracting blue bar with the framerate on the bottom of the screen at all times.
I guess I'll take a look at the older 3D Mark versions, at least those might run at a decent speed.
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Well upon looking at the second 3D Mark demo, I noticed that there is an option which gives you sound... There are both "run 3d mark" and "demo" buttons on opposite sides of the wondow, and the demo button will give you sound... But in 3DMark05, the demo only showed the sci fi portion, and there was no forest or boat sections shown, though the credits rolled over a portion which looked like it might be from the boat demo. And both 3D Mark 03 and 3D Mark 05 have crashed on me a few times. And I still can't run 05 at 800x600.
But the art in 05 is rather impressive anyway.
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I guess I'll take a look at the older 3D Mark versions, at least those might run at a decent speed.
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Well upon looking at the second 3D Mark demo, I noticed that there is an option which gives you sound... There are both "run 3d mark" and "demo" buttons on opposite sides of the wondow, and the demo button will give you sound... But in 3DMark05, the demo only showed the sci fi portion, and there was no forest or boat sections shown, though the credits rolled over a portion which looked like it might be from the boat demo. And both 3D Mark 03 and 3D Mark 05 have crashed on me a few times. And I still can't run 05 at 800x600.
But the art in 05 is rather impressive anyway.
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