I have read some threads in our forum and here too, where people speculate that we are out to do some damage to Nvidia. Let me ensure you that is not the case. If it was up to me, I would only patch 3DMark03 when some critical bug is found, or the hardware detection needs to be updated. Otherwise I would like to concentrate on making the next 3DMark, once again a better benchmark than ever before. I'm doing my best to keep the next 3DMark on track despite this PR mess, but it's not easy. We are a small company (26 employees tot.) in Finland and a 3 person sales office in the US. We have no desire to confront a huge >1500 employee market leader of high end PC graphics. Some of our documents may be seen as harmful to Nvidia, and I find that regrettable. We only want to defend the validity of our benchmark products, since our business depends on it.
I wish we could somehow leave behind us our differences in opinions, again work together on a new 3DMark version, and again do our best to make it reflect future 3D game performance. Even though Nvidia left our beta program, we will make sure the next 3DMark is an impartial benchmark that genuinely measures 3D hardware performance. We will test it also on any Nvidia hardware available, but if Nvidia are out of the beta program, they will not get any pre-releases. You should therefore not judge them even if the next 3DMark doesn't run that well on their hw right after we launch. Give them some time to get possible driver issues fixed, and start comparing scores only when the rendering is correct.
