Software update: Shadermark 2.1 build 125

An update has been released on the German Shadermark for the video benchmark program of the same name. The update is numbered build 125 and is intended to update version 2.1. Version 2.1 weighs no less than 73.1MB and can be downloaded from here be brought down. To be able to work with this program, you must have a video card that has a hardware shader 2.0 on board and DirectX 9.0c must be installed on the system. Furthermore, owners of an ATi card must use Catalyst driver version 4.9 and owners of nVidia cards are WHQL 66.31 recommended. The just released update has the following changes:

Changes in build 125

• fixes the MRT detection bug of the GeForce FX – however the crash bug on the GeForce FX is still under investigation!!!
• fixed a CTD (crash to desktop) on some systems
• fixed a resource allocation problem with shader 25 and 26, which could affect the performance!!!
• Picture Quality Mode bitmaps are now removed when deleting old ShaderMark results[break]