Nearly a year since its first release, the creators of FurMark have released a new version of their Physx based FluidMark, which like Furmark can be used as either a stress test or benchmarking tool. FluidMark is designed to run in hardware mode for all CUDA ready NVIDIA cards, which includes the 8, 9 and 200 series of graphics cards. For all others the program runs in software mode, which can be forced even if your system has one of the above mentioned cards. The creators say in software mode, the tool "is an excellent CPU benchmark." The latest graphics drivers and Physx version 9.09.0428 is recommended to be installed prior to running this. For more information and to download go here FluidMark 1.1.0 changelog: * New: simple color point rendering mode (press the R key in stability test). * New: use the code base than FurMark. * New: command line parameter (/no_sph) to disable SPH fluid simulation method. * Change: compiled with NVIDIA PhysX SDK 2.8.1. * Bugfix: minors bugs fixed Hidden Content: You must either reply or click 'Like' to see the hidden information contained here.
PhysX FluidMark 1.1.1 PostFX Update This is a small bugfix release of the version published yesterday. The post processing effect file (script-post-fx.xml) was not loaded and only the internal post processing effect was used: The built-in postFX is intentionally limited to a narrow band to quickly see the source of the postFX…
