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FurMark v1.4.0 Windows XP / Vista 32-bit - EXE installer - (1477k) Release date: June 24, 2008 The forum for scores or bug report, is here: Benchmarking @ oZone3D.Net Forums Download Mirrors Geeks3D.com  Geeks3D.com (v1.4.0) Guru3D.com  Guru3D.com (v1.4.0) Expreview  Expreview (v1.4.0) Benchmak Reviews  Benchmak Reviews (v1.4.0) BenchmarkHQ  BenchmarkHQ (v1.4.0) MajorGeeks  MajorGeeks (v1.4.0) Softpedia  Softpedia (v1.4.0)  Hardware Upgrade (v1.4.0) Old Versions - Mirrors Overclock.net  Overclock.net (v1.3.0)  Guru3D (v1.0.0)  techPowerUp! (v1.0.0) FurMark has been successfully tested on the following systems: Core 2 Duo 6600 / 2048M DDR2 / Windows XP SP2 / NVIDIA 8800 GTX PCI-Exp / Forceware 175.19 AMD X2 3800+ / 2048M DDR2 / Windows XP SP2 / HIS Radeon HD 3870 PCI-Exp / Catalyst 8.6 AMD X2 3800+ / 2048M DDR2 / Windows Vista / HIS Radeon HD 3870 PCI-Exp / Catalyst 8.6 AMD X2 3800+ / 2048M DDR2 / Windows Vista / S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT PCI-Exp / Latest graphics drivers FurMark is a freeware, it cannot be sold or rented. You can copy it and distribute it freely. In case of distribution (CDROM, ...), just send a little email to jegx[AT]ozone3d[DOT]net and add [FURMARK] to the mail subject.

What is FurMark?

FurMark is a small OpenGL benchmark focused on fur rendering. The rendering algorithm is highly multipass (100 passes) and each pass (or layer) uses a GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) vertex / pixel shader to make the hairs finer and finer. To increase the fur realism, two dynamic lights are used for self shadowing. The benchmark offers several options allowing the user to tweak the rendering: fullscreen / windowed mode, MSAA selection, window size, duration. The benchmark also includes a GPU Burner mode (stability test).

This benchmark requires an OpenGL 2.0 compliant graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 5/6/7/8 (and higher), AMD/ATI Radeon 9600 (and higher) or a S3 Graphics Chrome 400 series with the latest graphics drivers.

The startup interface allows you to tweak the benchmark features such as:

• Benchmark mode or stability test mode (for overclockers)
• Fullscreen or windowed for each type of run mode
• Window size selection (standard or custom)
• MSAA samples selection
• Benchmarking parameters: time based or frames based
• Contest Mode

The Contest Mode allows to enable the "anti-cheat" protection against some usual techniques used by cheaters to get a high score. This mode is useful to organize a contest based on this benchmark. If the Contest Mode is disabled, the final score is displayed in a simple message box:

If the Contest Mode is enabled, the final score is displayed in a more elaborate dialog box:

The Contest Mode makes it possible to validate the score online: just click on [Get Validation ID]. This action sends score data to the oZone3D.Net server and you get in return a validation ID that allows an online checking of the score. The scores webpage is here:

FurMark Scores @ oZone3D.Net.

To check a score, just pass the validation ID to the score.php page:

The default benchmark settings are: Fullscreen, MSAA None, 1280x1204, duration 1 minute. At the end of the benchmark, just read the o3Marks score in the result dialog box. The o3Mark score is simple: it's the number of frames that have been displayed during the benchmark. Thus the higher the score, the more powerful the graphics system is.

FurMark 1.4.0 introduces command line parameters to control how FurMark is launched. Here is the list of available parameters:

• /nogui : does not display the startup GUI.
• /nomenubar : does not display the menu bar.
• /noscore: does not display the final score box
• /fullscreen: starts FurMark in fullscreen mode
• /width : specifies the screen width - Default: 1280
• /height : specifies the screen height - Default: 1024
• /msaa : specifies the MSAA level - Default: 0
• /run_mode : specifies the run mode: 1 for benchmark, and 2 for stability test - Default: 1
• /contest_mode : 1 to enable the contest mode or 0 to disable it - Default: 0
• /max_time : specifies the benchmark max time (run_mode=1) in milliseconds - Default: 60000
• /max_frames : specifies the benchmark max number of frames (run_mode=1) - Default: -1
• /app_process_priority : specifies FurMark process priority - Default: 32 (NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS) - See Win32 API for possible values.
• /app_cpu_affinity : specifies FurMark main thread CPU affinity - Default: 1 (first CPU core)
• /rendering_cpu_affinity : specifies FurMark rendering thread CPU affinity - Default: 2 (second CPU core).

The following command line starts FurMark with benchmark's default parameters:

Xtreme Burning is a mode where the workload of GPU is maximal. In this mode, the donut is fixe and is displayed in front side which offers the largest surface. In this mode, the GPU core quickly becomes very hot:

The Xtreme Burning mode can be started in command line or directly by launching the file start-Xtreme-Burning.bat. This mode is perfect for testing your new overclocking parameters.

ChangeLog

• New: added full QXSGA mode: 2560x2048.
• New: added an extreme burning mode for stability test. This mode available in command line: /xtreme_burning Launch FurMark-Xtreme-Burning.bat.
• New: added command line parameters (see the start-Benchmark-Standard-Mode.bat file for parameters list). Now you can control FurMark's resolution, msaa level, CPU affinity, etc., using command line. This new feature has been added to allow FurMark to be used with OCCT (www.ocbase.com).
• Change: time in score dialog box is now in milliseconds.
• Change: improved driver detection.
• Known issue: under Vista with ForceWare graphics drivers (tested with 169.28 and 175.16), if the desktop resolution is equal to benchmark selected resolution, the swith back from fullscreen mode to windowed mode (at the end of the benchmark) fails and the user can't see the score dialog box. This issue has not been observed with Catalyst or S3 graphics drivers. A workaround is detailed in this post @ Geeks3D.com.

• New: added a Contest Mode checkbox. This mode enables anti-cheat protections (timer, window, etc). This is the only mode where you can display the dialog box that shows the valided score at the end of the benchmark. Thanks to http://www.hardware.info community for tests (v1.2.x).
• New: added online validation. Just click on [Get Validation ID] to receive a validation id. Email, name, GPU-Z and CPU-Z are optional. Online score page is here.
• New: added the display of GPU core temperature in the stability test.
• New: the rendering is now done in a separate thread.
• New: added file version information.
• Bugfix: this is workaround for a bug in Catalyst 7.11+. More information here
• Change: background image (free image from 3dm3.com).
• Change: improved the internal timer to make it more robust with multi-cores cpus.
• Change: the MSAA selection is now done with a selection list instead of radio buttons and only MSAA samples supported by the graphics card are displayed.
• Change: new name: FurMark.
• Acknowledgements: thanks to www.hardware.info community for tests on the 1.2.x branch, and thanks to Dr Spankenstein (from techPowerUp forums) for his countless tests on the beta version 1.3.0.

• Changed: added fullscreen (FS) or Windowed (W) information to the score dialog box.
• Bugfix: crash occured just after the message for non-OpenGL2 graphics cards.
• Bugfix: very small bug in the win32 installer.

• First release!

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