Problems running 3DMark06 in Vista? Look here!

[Neeyik]

the HDR/SM3.0 Graphic Tests and Perlin Nose (SM3.) can be done.
BUT the Shader Particles (SM3.0) it says N/A

The Shader Particle test requires hardware vertex texture fetch support, as directly exposed by D3D 9.0 - the Radeon X1650 does not offer this feature in that way.

[ccruz_md]

The Shader Particle test requires hardware vertex texture fetch support, as directly exposed by D3D 9.0 - the Radeon X1650 does not offer this feature in that way.

how come the forums says the x1650 will run 3dmark06? weird.

[Neeyik]

Because it does - the feature tests are simply that: tests for features, not gaming capabilities. The Radeon X1650 fully supports all of the tests that produce results for the final 3DMark score.

[jacobweber2000]

I am getting a "invalid bitmap file format" error. Everyone here says to redownload. I dont think that its the download because I also installed it on my older 2.8ghz northwood P4c800 deluxe system with windows xp pro, and it ran fine. I setup 3dmark06 to run as an admin in vista64, and even tried to run it as "compatibility xp sp2" mode. I am not sure what else to do. Any help? Thanks...

Intel Q6600 2.4ghz, xfx i680 ih9, 2gb cm2x1024-8500c5, Windows Vista 64bit, stock HD sound, corsair cwc100-1001 water cooled system.

[SWAT_BigBear]

I am getting a "invalid bitmap file format" error. Everyone here says to redownload. I dont think that its the download because I also installed it on my older 2.8ghz northwood P4c800 deluxe system with windows xp pro, and it ran fine. I setup 3dmark06 to run as an admin in vista64, and even tried to run it as "compatibility xp sp2" mode. I am not sure what else to do. Any help? Thanks...

Intel Q6600 2.4ghz, xfx i680 ih9, 2gb cm2x1024-8500c5, Windows Vista 64bit, stock HD sound, corsair cwc100-1001 water cooled system.

Look in your ADD/REMOVE programs (Programs and Features in CP) and confirm OpenAL got installed from 3dmark06 installation, if not...reinstall it. It took me twice to get it to install, OpenAL that is.
Also go ahead and install the latest DX9.

[vargas85]

3dmark06 does not run on my system:
club3d ati radeon hd 2600xt 256mb gddr4 with catalyst 7.6 on vista 32
Please help me... i've tried your suggestion in this topic, but nothing.

[doakh]

I cannot get 3dmark06 to run on my system. I followed the instructions from page 1 and installed the two additional programs. 'OpenAl' and 'Directx' appearaed to install properly. I can find 'OpenAL' in the 'Programs' folder but not 'Directx', which I think is more of a driver. The file '3dmark06_v110_installer' states the file size when downloading to be 576MB. However the file size after downloading is only 267MB. When I click on the file to 'Run' it nothing happens. Am I getting the entire file, or is my operating system blocking part of it?

Vista64 Home Premium
Sapphire X1950 Pro 512MB
C2D E6600
2x1GB G.Skill 6400 HZ's

Thanks.........Doak

[Nick[FM]]

3dmark06 does not run on my system:
club3d ati radeon hd 2600xt 256mb gddr4 with catalyst 7.6 on vista 32
Please help me... i've tried your suggestion in this topic, but nothing.

Please refer to this FAQ entry:

http://service.futuremark.com/suppor...id=14&fid=1311

That may solve your problem.

However the file size after downloading is only 267MB. When I click on the file to 'Run' it nothing happens. Am I getting the entire file, or is my operating system blocking part of it?

You need to download it again. Please try another mirror and save it to another location than previously. If the filesize is less than what is stated, the whole file hasn't been downloaded for some reason.

Cheers,

Nick

[killercheese]

[cursing]
I am running Windows Vista 64-Bit Home Premium with an 8800GTX with the Beta drivers 163.11. Ok, now my problem is this. Whenever I try to run 3DMark06 I get this error

"The procedure entry point alcGetString could not be located in the dynamic link library OpenAL32.dll"

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling 3DMark06, the OpenAL Installer from Creative, and my DX10 and all of those atempts to get it to work failed.

I've ran all three installers as an Administrator and that didn't help as well.

I would appreciate it if I would get some help with these problems.

[SWAT_BigBear]

[cursing]
.........

I can't use the new beta drivers either (162.22 or 163.11)
Have you tried 158.24 whql ? or the 158.45 beta?