[Kal-EL]

Futuremark Patches 3DMark03, 3DMark05, 3DMark06, 3DMark Vantage, PCMark05

Futuremark has released patches for all their major applications, improving hardware detection. From the site:

The June 2009 updates are available for 3DMark03, 3DMark05, 3DMark06, 3DMark Vantage, PCMark05 and PCMark Vantage. These patches update the system information detection component to the latest version for each of these benchmark products. This fixes numerous issues related to hardware detection in the benchmarks.The updates are available now as patches from the mirrors listed below and soon as full installer packages from mirror sites.Advanced and Professional Users can also soon download the updated full install packages from the same download page (credentials supplied in the receipt email) they originally used to download the application.NOTE: Benchmark scores are NOT affected by this update. All scores are comparable with previous results. Benchmark version numbers will remain the same.

Per hwbot.org

[Kal-EL]

You can download the patches from here.

[DrNip]

Well it is about time.

[Jeffro64]

Sweet!

[punx223]

yes so now 3dmark 03 can see a 8 thread processor taht it still cannot use

[DrNip]

I figured it would just show proper detection on futuremark shubmissions.

[Jeffro64]

That would be really nice and a lot less typing!

[DrNip]

Sorry Jeffro. I meant Futuremark submissions not bot submissions. I can't count how many times I submitted a bench to Futuremark for it to detect it wrong.

[Jeffro64]

Gotcha....