Dronezmark
Dronez was
released in 2001 by Zethas Games. While many game reviewers don't like the game
itself, I do. I think it's a fun little game and we've used the benchmark since
late 2001. Why is Dronez relevant today? It's not a very popular benchmark right
now in videocard reviews. Therefore, it's unlikely to be overly optimized for
from the video card manufacturers.
You can either
use the retail version of Dronez or the Dronezmark demo to benchmark this game.
Simply double-click DronezMarkSetup or insert the Dronez CD in the CD drive and
install the game or demo. One thing to be careful when running the benchmark is
that on a NVIDIA card Dronez will use specialized settings and effects that
aren't available on ATI cards or other manufacturer's cards. The custom setting
for ATI cards doesn't include register combiners or specular highlights. To
compare apples to apples write down the settings used on ATI cards and set the
NVIDIA cards to the same settings.
Running the
benchmark is fairly simple once the video settings are set. Simply click
Benchmark from the options list on the Dronez menu while in the benchmark. After
the run is complete, a fps showing of minimum, average and maximum fps is
displayed. Also displayed is the triangles/second that the video card posted.
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