How to install & run 3Dmark99 Max

[ShrimpBrime]

Hello and welcome to my little tutorial.
Going to explain in short detail how to set up and get 3DMark99 working on your W10 install.

Super simple, great for team points. (Bot does not give personal boints only team)

DL 3DMark99 max and get the user name and key from here.
https://benchmarks.ul.com/legacy-benchmarks

Unzip the folder and right click the exe installer.
Right Click properties then compatibility.
Tick run in compatibility for W98.
Tick run as administrator.
Close the box and install the benchmark.

Once you've installed the benchmark
Go to C: Program Files (X86) and again repeat the above.
Right click, properties, compatibility.
Tick compatibility for W98 and Admin. close and run.

Be sure to use your usual tweaks on legacy benches

GLHF!

 

[dejo]

been many years since I ran that bench. A long time for 3d2000 as well.
Kinda funny that you can still go to madonion.com to get to your results for the new benches, or could not long ago anyway. Havent checked that in a year or so

 

[ShrimpBrime]

I don't think you can visit madonion anymore, it just goes to 3dmark.com instead.

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Here is an example screen shot.
Athlon 220ge 3.8ghz OC and Vega 3 no OC.
Single stick 8gb of Corsair LED 3000mhz at 2667mhz.
Nothing special, just an example

 

[JLK03F150]

Speaking of nothing special and not overclocked.
i5 3330S, Gigabyte GA-H77TN, 2x4GB DDR3 PC1600 SoDimm, Intel HD Graphics
2.3 points for the team though.

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Easy points. I think you need to open the results browser for details, but I'd have to double check the rules to be sure.
Nice run

Edit. Also only need to run the 1st 2 game benchmarks to get a score.

 

[MaddMutt]

Do you have any advice on the OLD PC-Mark benches??

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Do you have any advice on the OLD PC-Mark benches??

What kind of advice?

 

[Mr.Scott]

Do you have any advice on the OLD PC-Mark benches??

I do.
For anything up to 3D06, run them on XP or you take a big hit on score.
Taken from a benching standpoint of course.

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Hey that's pretty good Scotty! Was hoping the question was more related to the bench itself over the OS. Cause I havent tried PCMark on W10.

I do know that the bench favors ATI/AMD cards.

 

[MaddMutt]

I was looking at getting them to work under Win10. I know I will take a big hit but I may still get some points

 

[ShrimpBrime]

I was looking at getting them to work under Win10. I know I will take a big hit but I may still get some points

No sir, that one I'm not sure about. It's a pain in the butt to install and run on W7, so I imagine W10 would be no different. So whatever method worked for W7 may work for W10 is what I'm saying.