GF2 GTS is incompatible with some 3DMark2001?

gramb0

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Hello,

Just wanting to confirm that the GeForce 2 GTS is incompatible with the Nature Scene, Environmental Bump Mapping and Pixel Shader parts of the 3D Mark 2001 benchmark and that I didn't incorrectly set something up in my system :) (It also says it's running in D3D Hardware mode with DXTC Compression).

Scores are (1024x768x32bpp no FSAA)

Normal: 3056
OC: 3350

Normal = Athlon @ 1200, 256meg PC133, GF 2 GTS @ 200/333
OC = Athlon @ 1360, 256meg PC133, GF 2 GTS @ 230/400
 

Caanon

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Nature Scene(for benchmarking, I think you can see it in demo at lower quality) and Pixel Shader are geforce3 only.

Environmental Bump Mapping -- I would of thought gf2s supported this(maybe it does), but it skips it on my card too. /shrug.
 

Oda

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GF2 does not support environment bump mapping in hardware, only emboss.

Oda
 

gramb0

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The only card I've heard of that does environmental bump mapping is the Matrox G400/450. Anyone know of any other cards (V5500 maybe?)

ttyl
 
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Listin if you click on Demo not benchmark and whatch the whole thing the nature scene comes up even though it does not say your vid supports it
I have a Geforce 2 Pro and they said it was not supported but when I ran the Demo I saw it and WOW it rocked
 

BuddyHolly

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I have heard people speculate that they would alter the benchmark to allow non direct x 8.0 cards to work. It would be hard to believe that they would do that, but who knows..