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Saratoga, California USA – January 26, 2005 – Futuremark Corporation announced today the immediate availability of updates to its 3DMark03, 3DMark05 and PCMark04 suites of benchmark software. 3DMark is the worldwide standard tool for easily and objectively measuring and comparing DirectX 3D performance of Windows based PCs. PCMark04 is a state-of-the-art home user performance analysis tool and has been widely adopted; over 2 million copies have been distributed since launched in November 2003.

Available immediately, free downloadable software updates provide the only valid versions 3.6.0 of 3DMark03, version 1.2.0 of 3DMark05 and version 1.3.0 of PCMark04. Only scores obtained through the new versions and with approved drivers will be used in official statistics, comparisons and services provided by Futuremark.

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Technical Details Associated with 3DMark05 Patch (Build 1.2.0):

* Benchmark scores do not change between build 1.2.0 and build 1.1.0, except when the system is influenced by the changes listed below;
* Updated System Info module with support for the latest CPU and graphics hardware;
* GeForce FX-series now use VS2.a as default;
* Modified anisotropic texture filtering settings to ensure that all hardware performs the desired amount of filtering when anisotropic filtering is selected from the benchmark settings;
* Updated version of the Entech library, which is used to detect the clock frequency of the graphics chip core and memory;
* Improved compatibility for graphics cards with 128MB of video memory when using Anti-Aliasing;
* Various fixes & corrections to Image Quality Tools;
* Fixed all reported & reproduced bugs;
* Possible result vulnerability has been blocked

Technical Details Associated with 3DMark03 Patch (Build 3.6.0):

* Benchmark scores do not change between the build 3.6.0 and build 3.5.0;
* Updated System Info module with support for the latest CPU and graphics hardware;
* Updated version of the Entech library, which is used to detect the clock frequency of the graphics chip core and memory;
* Requires Microsoft DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime;
* Fixed all reported & reproduced bugs;
* Possible result vulnerability has been blocked

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