Anyone had troubles w/ 3DMark2000??

[Electric Amish]

I've downloaded it twice. Both times it installed fine, but when I try to run it I get a Visual C++ runtime error. Can anyone help??

Paul

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Retail Celeron 300a @ 464MHz
Abit BH6 v1.01(LN Bios)
128mb Generic PC-100 SDRAM
G400 32mb SH @ Fo=300MHz(5.30 Drivers)
Ovislink 10/100 Realtek NIC
E-Tech 56Kbps Modem
SB PCI128 Sound Card
Asus 40x CDROM
Western Digital Caviar 6.4GB (Win 98SE)
Western Digital Caviar 4.3GB (Red Hat 6.0)
17" Shamrock C708 .25 "Diamondtron" Monitor
(1) 120mm Panaflo Blow-hole
(2) 80mm Fans Card Cooler Style
(1) 80mm Fan @ case front

[Jorden]

Well, Electric Paul, I've had no problems, but you do know that

Minimum Requirements to use 3DMark:
Intel® Pentium® processor with MMX Technology or compatible. Minimum 166 MHz
64 MB of memory
Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft DirectX 7
A DirectX 7 compatible 3D accelerator & drivers

Additional Recommendations for Testing:

128 MB of system memory
Free hard disk space for Image Quality pictures Windows 98 or newer.

and

If the problem persists, feel free to contact us at support@MadOnion.com. Please include at least the following information to the problem description if possible:

3DMark project file (.3dp) as a file attachment. Create a project file doing the following: 1. Start 3DMark 2. Choose New Custom Benchmark 3. Save a text format project file (Save As… in the File menu).
Where in 3DMark the problem occurs
Detailed description of how the problem or bug can be reproduced

and

Q: The landscape texture in Game 1 - Helicopter flashes with different colors
A: Matrox G400 5.30 driver has probably a bug when rendering the landscape.

Pfew...

Do (or don't) you have any of the above??

Jorden.

[DarkSyd]

I had flashing/screwy textures with the 5.30 drivers. With the 5.41 drivers, everything runs good, but only for a minute or two.
What I need is some 5.35 drivers

DS

[Electric Amish]

I don't have any of those problems, because the stupid thing won't even start. I click on the shortcut and I get a dialog box that says:

Visual C++ Runtime Error.

My system meets all the requirements.

I don't know what's going on.

Paul

[Borg]

No problems here ! ewerything runs just fine ...only hm , hm, 10 fps in1024 x768x 32 bit all & dam helicopter @ HIGH.. dont like that but, DEMO looks realy GREAT & runs NICE and SMOOTH @ 1024x768x32 all 32 bit..oh yes & BUMPS ..men ! beauty ...

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PIII450@465,P2b,128mb,Matrox Mill-G400 32SH,SB.Live !(value)IntelliMouse Explorer (yahoooo! no fu..hm hm. ball any more ...)

[Mark F]

Mine runns fine. Sort of have 5.30 drivers so flashing colors in Helo tests.

Can't run the DEMO, says it cant find DEMO.RAS, but it's in the folder.
Any ideas?

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a CD

[Peter555]

Can't even get it top install on my RC2 setup...

[Jorden]

MarkF

Q: My 3DMark says "Archive DEMO.RAS not found"

A: There is a known bug in 3DMark where loading/saving a 3DP file to some other directory than where DEMO.RAS resides (the default installation path is: C:\Program Files\MadOnion.com\3DMark2000) causes the error message "Archive DEMO.RAS not found". If you are using the command-line option /demo to use a custom setting for the demo, you must copy the 3DP file to your 3DMark installation directory.

Jorden.

[Mark F]

Thanx Jorden,

Restarted the program and ran the demo, withiut doing a benchmark first, so no save, and it worked fine.
Wow the 'Stonehenge' and platform ('Star Wars' like) are increadable!!!
Lot of stuff seams geared for the GeForce cards. Oh well . Still looked great as it's prerendered.

Mark F.


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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a CD

[Jorden]

Take a look at this for screenshots

Jord.

[Electric Amish]

I e-mailed the problem to Madonion and they replied that they are working on it. They asked be for recent software installs.

Still no idea what's going on....

Paul

[andrei]

Paul I have the same problem:

Microsoft Visual C++ Library
Runtime Error!
Program:C/PROGRAM FILES/MADONION.COM/3DMARK2000/3DMARK2000.EXE
abnormal program termination

(Just migrating from my own thread "What does Windows want from me?(3Dmark2000)")

[This message has been edited by andrei (edited 09 December 1999).]

[Jorden]

It could be a problem with one of the DLL files ... which one I'm trying to find out with Andrei's help (just comparing directories for a change )

Jorden.

[andrei]

DLL files:

e2mfc.dll 352KB
grphmfc.dll 148KB
inetmfc.dll 80KB
Mfc42.dll 973KB
Msvcirt.dll 77KB
Msvcp60.dll 393KB
rlmfc.dll 240KB
sndmfc.dll 132KB
SystemInfomfc.dll 120KB

Jorden says they're normal. So it seems it's not the dll files.

Of all the users in the World, why did this had to happen to us Paul ?

[Electric Amish]

Yeah andrei. This sucks. I just watched one of my friends run it. it's a pretty nice benchmark. Are the scenes with the chick in them only in the full version??

Paul