Die Benchmarkschmiede Futuremark hat heute Version 1.0.4 von 3DMark 11 (Download) vorgestellt und sichert damit die volle Kompatibilität zum Microsoft-Betriebssystem Windows 8. Dabei wurden einige kleinere Bugs behoben und Verbesserungen integriert – alle bisherigen Ergebnisse sind davon unberührt und bleiben weiterhin vergleichbar. Folgend die Änderungen in der neuen Version im Überblick:

Alle Editionen

• Improvements
• Keyboard focus is no longer checked during the demo or when running the benchmark in a loop. Note that if the display switches to the desktop due to a popup window during the benchmark, the run will still be aborted as the display mode is no longer the same.
• 3DMark 11 now remembers the last custom resolution used.
• GPU count detection for multi-GPU systems is now correct even when SystemInfo is explicitly disabled.
• 3DMark 11 will now prevent Windows from entering Sleep during the test.
• The license key is now reset when the benchmark is reinstalled, allowing removal of invalid keys.
• Compatibility
• SystemInfo updated to version 4.15 for full Windows 8 compatibility.
• Updated DirectX redistributable.
• Now using static Visual C++ 2010 runtime libraries to fix rare installation issues on some systems.
• Removed dependency on EvaDotNet.dll and EvaDotNet.DirectX.dll for GPU enumeration to fix compatibility issues with some systems.
• Bug fixes
• Fixed display initialization code that caused "SetFullscreenState failed: DXGI_ERROR_NOT_CURRENTLY_AVAILABLE" errors on some systems.
• Fixed several memory and texture leaks, improving stability during very long looping runs.
• The HUD timer no longer rolls over if a single test takes more than ten minutes. (Yes, this could happen during the Combined Test on some low end DirectX 11 cards.)

Professional Edition

• Fixed submitting saved files to 3dmark.com from the command line.
• Image Quality tool will no longer give a cryptic error if the output directory does not exist.