3DMark� Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10.
It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware.
3DMark� Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.

Presets
A key new feature in 3DMark� Vantage is the rendering option Presets.
These pre-selected combinations of rendering option settings, like resolution, anti-aliasing and texture quality, represent different, successively more advanced levels of visual quality.
When running 3DMark� Vantage with one of the presets selected, the benchmark produces an official score for that preset.
Instead of the single default setting of previous 3DMarks, there are four Presets available for Entry, Performance, High and Extreme visual quality.


The 3DMark Vantage Pro ORB features are only available via 3DMark Vantage Advanced and Professional Editions.

- 3DMark� Vantage System Requirements
- Minimum System Requirements
� Processor
- Requirement : SSE2 support
- Recommendation : A dual-core processor with performance equivalent to Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, AMD Athlon X2 6000+, or higher
� Graphics Card
- Requirement : Fully DirectX10-compliant graphics hardware
- Recommended : 512MB of video memory (Needed to run every Preset)
� Display Device
- Requirement : Capable of 1280x1024 resolution
- Recommendation : Capable of 1920x1200 resolution (Needed to run every Preset)
� System Memory
- Requirement : Windows Vista minimum requirement
- Recommendation : 2 GB or more
� Hard Disk
- Requirement : 1 GB of free hard disk space
� Operating System
- Requirement : Windows Vista with Service Pack 1
- The Windows Vista Service Pack 1 can be downloaded here :

3DMark Vantage Build 1.0.1 Info
We have made changes in the product editions to better serve our customers. Off-line score is now available in the Advanced edition, and ad banners have been removed. Error messages have been improved, and various bugs have been fixed.

IMPORTANT: We recommend that you only install 3DMark Vantage using a user account that has Administrator rights on the machine. Installing 3DMark Vantage as a Standard User on Vista is not recommended. Cases where the user has Standard User rights only, and User Account Control (UAC) turned off are specifically not supported, and will not work.

The hotfix updates the following:
Off-line score viewing is now available in the Advanced Edition.
Score save / submit saved options are now available in the Advanced Edition.
Ad banners have been removed from all editions.
Added a "SEND ERROR" button to error messages; clicking this will send detailed error information to Futuremark for better bug tracking and fixing. No personally identifiable information will be sent or stored.


The hotfix fixes the following:
An issue preventing valid serial key entry in some cases has been fixed.
An issue causing "boost::filesystem::create_directory" error message after registration has been fixed.
Added a check and error message for hardware that is not DX10 capable.
Improved detection of supported resolutions so that CPU test minimum requirement (1280x1024) is now taken into account correctly.
Fixed an issue where pressing the ESC key during CPU test loading screen, the user would be taken to a score view with score -1.
The entire 3DMark Vantage application is now elevated to Administrator rights, rather than only the SystemInfo component. This will ensure more robust SystemInfo and benchmark functionality, and fixes the "pop-behind" elevation dialog.
Fixed an issue that sometimes caused "WM_QUIT" error messages.
Post-processing scale is now displayed correctly in the UI for the Extreme Preset.
Fixed an issue that could cause resolution switches at test runtime.





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