Treemark (Was RE: New spherebench problem ( was RE: [vtkusers] Sp here Benchmark run s, but renders black window half way through

[Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)]

Treemark is a cool benchmarking tool provided by Nvidia.
It used to be a lot easier to find on their website. Now, the only way I was able to find it was by
doing a web search on Alta-Vista and looking a hundred or so hits into the list. You can find it at
http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Products/Pages.nsf/pages/GeForce_256_Treemark

I don't know if there's any way to navigate to this page from Nvidia's home page. Even their internal
search engine cant find it!

Download and unzip the TreeMark.zip file you'll find on that page, and try running each of the batch
files, simple.bat and complex.bat. They will report numbers at the end, the only one of significance
(for comparison purposes) being the number of frames per second. 

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: John Anast-JM [mailto:anast.jm at pg.com]
|> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:17 PM
|> To: Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)
|> Subject: Re: New spherebench problem ( was RE: [vtkusers] Sphere
|> Benchmark run s, but renders black window half way through
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|> 
|> Chris, what is treemark and where can I get it....john
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|> From: "Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)" <volpecr at crd.ge.com> on 
|> 07/27/2000 11:48 AM
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|> To:   "Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)" <volpecr at crd.ge.com>, 
|> "Vtkusers at Public.
|>       Kitware. Com (E-mail)" <vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
|> cc:    (bcc: John Anast-JM/PGI)
|> Subject:  New spherebench problem ( was RE: [vtkusers] 
|> Sphere Benchmark run s,
|>       but renders black window half way through
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|> 
|> Followup on my earlier problem:
|> 
|> I have not been able to reproduce this disappearing act 
|> since I initially
|> reported it. However, I am
|> still experiencing another problem (again, only with the 
|> sphere benchmark test,
|> and which I didn't
|> mention previously), which is random jittering of the sphere 
|> to the left and to
|> the right during each
|> test. That is, the sphere not only spins around the way it's 
|> supposed to, but it
|> also translates
|> within the window. This seems to happen only when the test 
|> is running, and not
|> while interacting in
|> the render window with the mouse. If I experienced this 
|> problem elsewhere, I'd
|> figure it was a driver
|> problem or some other configuration problem solely on my 
|> end. But it only seems
|> to happen in
|> sphere-bench. Even treemark (which appears to really push 
|> the limits on polygons
|> and lights), runs
|> beautifully.
|> 
|> So, has *anyone* seen this kind of sphere jittering in spherebench?
|> 
|> thanks,
|> Chris
|> 
|> |> -----Original Message-----
|> |> From: Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)
|> |> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:19 AM
|> |> To: Vtkusers at Public. Kitware. Com (E-mail)
|> |> Subject: [vtkusers] Sphere Benchmark runs, but renders black
|> |> window half
|> |> way through
|> |>
|> |>
|> |> Hi-
|> |>   I'm trying to diagnose a problem on my PC at home, whose
|> |> symptom is the following: When I run the
|> |> sphere benchmark, it goes through some of the combinations
|> |> just fine, and yields good results, but
|> |> then part way through itjust starts rendering black images
|> |> (but still producing reasonable numbers in
|> |> the results pane). I think I recall there being some issues
|> |> mentioned here about GeForce cards,
|> |> particularly the Elsa Erazor X, which I have, but I can't
|> |> find the message I thought I saw. Anyway,
|> |> if anyone has experienced anything similar, I'd like to hear
|> |> it. My configuration is:
|> |>
|> |> Windows 2000 Pro running on:
|> |> Asus K7V Motherboard, bios revision 1005a
|> |> AMD Athlon 650 MHz (pre-Thunderbird) CPU
|> |> Latest Via AGP drivers
|> |> Mushkin 128 MB PC133 CAS-2 SDRAM
|> |> Elsa Erazor X (GeForce) , latest card BIOS
|> |> Nvidia Detonator 2 reference drivers for GeForce
|> |>
|> |> I'm running a relatively recent version of vtk (updated from
|> |> the repository within the last month or
|> |> so).
|> |>
|> |> I get about 1800 kpolys/sec best case in spherebench.
|> |>
|> |> thanks in advance for any insight,
|> |>
|> |> Chris
|> |> > g GE Corporate Research & Development
|> |> >
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|> |> Christopher R. Volpe
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