Can't Run 3DMark 2001SE Any More

LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, Alaska Icrontian
edited July 2003 in Nerdery
System in question is WinXP Pro with DirectX 9.0, with ATI 9500 Pro video card.

After installing DirectX 9.0, I can neither run nor reinstall 3DMark 2001SE. 3DMark03 (Futuremark) runs beautifully. I realize that 2001SE is configured to run of DX 8.0. With that said though, I thought DirectX 9.0 was backwards compatible? Before I upgraded to the 9500 Pro, I was using an 8500LE; it also would not run 2001SE with DirectX 9.0. This has my a bit confused, as I'm seeing the the benchmark entusiasts are still using 2001SE as the standard.

What's up wit dis?

Leo:cool:

Comments

  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    I may be wrong but I think you need a patch or something for 2001 to run with DX9.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    There is a patch for 2001 put out by FutureMark (previously Mad Onion). I cannot install the patch without 2001SE already being installed. When I attempt to install 2001SE, even in Safe Mode, I get this error message --

    "An Installation Support File Could Not Be Found".
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Try uninstalling, deleteing registry entries (try RegCleaner) and reinstalling and before running it, patch it.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    Ah, well it didn't say that @ icrontic. In that case, all I can suggest is my favorite fix for software problems:

    format c: (return)
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Ran DXDIAG.exe - no problems reported with DX 9

    Had already removed and reinstalled 3DMark2001SE several times, including re-installing Build 330.


    Work around - merely copied the installation from another networked home computer. Works perfectly now.
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