I just tried this with patch 4 on two machines, failed on both. The first:
- XP Pro x64 Edition SP2
- Intel Xeon X5690 (think "i7 990X")
- 48GiB RAM
- nVidia GeForce GTX Titan Black, 6GiB VRAM, running with driver 368.81
- Screen resolution: 2560×1600×32
Error: No visible errors reported. The program appears to launch, but no GUI pops up whatsoever. 3DMark2000test4.exe keeps running in the background, constantly eating an entire CPU core. I've waited for 3-4 minutes with no changes, then killed the process. Tried it 3 or 4 times.
Second machine:
- Windows 10 Pro x64 20H2
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
- 16GiB RAM
- AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, 16GiB VRAM, running with Adrenalin driver 20.12.1
- Screen resolution: 2560×1600×32
Error: Program appears to attempt initialization of fullscreen upon launch (screen turns black), then runs into an error reporting that it's missing the MMX instruction set extension:
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After that, I tried Win98/Me compatibility mode on both machines to no avail. The symptoms don't change. Same after creating exceptions for 3DMark2000test4.exe in Comodo AV on XP x64. Am I supposed to do anything on top of extracting the patch into the 3DM2000 directory and running 3DMark2000test4.exe (right next to where 3DMark2000.exe is)? My apologies if I'm doing it wrong somehow..
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