3dmark05 06 not working vista beta 2

I can't seem to get either of these tools to work. 05 won't even install (when I double click the installer, it never appears) and 06 installs but then can't find a DirectX file. Do I need to install DX9 to get these to work? Can DX9 coexist with DX10 in Vista?

Nah - DirectX 10 is in there by default but will have backwards compatibility to work with DirectX 9.0c and previous versions.
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--: Original message follows :-- "ravisurdhar" wrote in message

I can't seem to get either of these tools to work. 05 won't even install (when I double click the installer, it never appears) and 06 installs but then can't find a DirectX file. Do I need to install DX9 to get these to work? Can DX9 coexist with DX10 in Vista?

Actually, I installed DX9 from the installer found on microsoft.com and 3DM06 now works fine. *shrug* Huge drop from my XP score though: 14xx vs 26xx (don't remember exactly).
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

Nah - DirectX 10 is in there by default but will have backwards compatibility to work with DirectX 9.0c and previous versions.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "ravisurdhar" wrote in message I can't seem to get either of these tools to work. 05 won't even install (when I double click the installer, it never appears) and 06 installs but then can't find a DirectX file. Do I need to install DX9 to get these to work? Can DX9 coexist with DX10 in Vista?

Interesting. I think this tells us that the drivers on XP have built in cheats to fake-optimized performance for 3D Mark while the Vista drivers which are new and clean lack these cheats and thus show the real score. If you pick some very obscure non-popular game, or perhaps create a benchmark yourself, does it show similar drop? If so then one might argue the Vista drivers aren't yet optimized or that Vista is slowing the general performance.
Given the past tendencies of ATI/NVIDIA to cheat at the scores of popular games and benchmarks I wouldn't be surprised if visual quality of games on Vista is as the game developers intended, not as ATI/NVIDIA optimized it to be.
"ravisurdhar" wrote in message

Actually, I installed DX9 from the installer found on microsoft.com and 3DM06 now works fine. *shrug* Huge drop from my XP score though: 14xx vs 26xx (don't remember exactly).
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
Nah - DirectX 10 is in there by default but will have backwards compatibility to work with DirectX 9.0c and previous versions.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "ravisurdhar" wrote in message I can't seem to get either of these tools to work. 05 won't even install (when I double click the installer, it never appears) and 06 installs but then can't find a DirectX file. Do I need to install DX9 to get these to work? Can DX9 coexist with DX10 in Vista?

It's possible as well that XP is optimized as much as it can be and Vista still has a lot of optimization to go through. Not to mention the resource overhead of the OS is more than XP and you may be hitting that threshold quicker and easier as a result. Driver optimization is a big part as well.
We'll see how it goes.
I ran the test and got 8326 as opposed to the 9979 in XP. Interestingly enough I got 7935 on my CPU score which was more then 3000 better than in XP. So my graphics are driving me down but I'm certain it's the slack drivers I have for my 7900 GTX. As well my Aquamark 3 scores have fallen off a bit. I'm looking for to a driver update for sure, heheh.
"droid" wrote in message

Interesting. I think this tells us that the drivers on XP have built in cheats to fake-optimized performance for 3D Mark while the Vista drivers which are new and clean lack these cheats and thus show the real score. If you pick some very obscure non-popular game, or perhaps create a benchmark yourself, does it show similar drop? If so then one might argue the Vista drivers aren't yet optimized or that Vista is slowing the general performance.
Given the past tendencies of ATI/NVIDIA to cheat at the scores of popular games and benchmarks I wouldn't be surprised if visual quality of games on Vista is as the game developers intended, not as ATI/NVIDIA optimized it to be.
"ravisurdhar" wrote in message Actually, I installed DX9 from the installer found on microsoft.com and 3DM06 now works fine. *shrug* Huge drop from my XP score though: 14xx vs 26xx (don't remember exactly).
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
Nah - DirectX 10 is in there by default but will have backwards compatibility to work with DirectX 9.0c and previous versions.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "ravisurdhar" wrote in message I can't seem to get either of these tools to work. 05 won't even install (when I double click the installer, it never appears) and 06 installs but then can't find a DirectX file. Do I need to install DX9 to get these to work? Can DX9 coexist with DX10 in Vista?