PCMARK05 testing

[scooter.jay]

Nicely done youngpro alot to thing about the next time i bench pcmark05 thanks

[miahallen]

Looks like the score got pulled

[youngpro]

yeah lucky im not interested in hwNOT

[chew*]

If i might interject my 2 cents here.......I saw this in person and the benchmark itself is in no way altered.........

I would say this is no further out of bounds than what people do to get SLI to work on AMD platforms with AMD chipsets.........

[Mutant_Tractor]

Major thread necro but for those interested in HWBot:
hwbot PCMark05 submission must comply to the following rules:

•use default PCMark settings
•have a valid screenshot (see example below): clearly show PCmark score, PCmark settings, processor in CPU-Z, GPU-Z, Subtest Scores (XP startup speed!), unless you have a valid futuremark ORB url
•have a valid futuremark orb link as verification for scores in the top 20

Forbidden Hardware:

•software ramdisk (iRam is allowed)
•MFT Software

Forbidden Tweaks:

•any software or human interaction altering the perceived speed of the benchmark program, tricking it to believe it ran faster

So no you cant use it on HWBot legally, If you want to use it for other purposes or for your own gain then so be it

[hiwa]

and the reason you up this thread? we talked about and it was a closed book

[miahallen]

Damn....no kidding. Case was closed a long time ago

[youngpro]

some people can't let this go, so here, ill be a real nice guy and explain a little clearer..

results i put in the public domain, i never physically modified any binaries, i never replaced any codecs or replaced dlls.. i used traditional tweak methods with new ideas..

can i share one example? the pcmark 05 video encoding going through the roof... 1 simple registry patch.. this part of the benchmark is controlled by the windows media encoder, and this is why you must installed this windows media encoder and windows media player 10 if you want to play pcm05..

you might also want to check out wmv powertoy as you can manipulate all the settings of this powertoy directly via a gui

here are the settings i used, im sure you can find better ones if you so choose

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Scrunch\WMVideo]
"Compression Optimization Type"=-
"DenoiseOption"=dword:00000000
"Dquant Option"=dword:00000000
"Dquant Strength"=dword:00000000
"Force B Frame Delta QP"=-
"Force Encoding Width"=dword:00000020
"Force Encoding Height"=dword:00000020
"Force LoopFilter"=dword:00000000
"Force Median"=dword:00000000
"Force NoiseEdgeRemoval"=dword:00000000
"Force NumThreads"=dword:00000004
"Force Overlap"=dword:00000000
"Force Video Scaling"=dword:00000000
"Lookahead"=-
"Macroblock Mode Cost Method"=-
"Motion Match Method"=-
"Motion Search Level"=-
"Motion Search Range"=-
"Motion Vector Coding Method"=-
"Motion Vector Cost Method"=-
"NumBFrames"=-
"Perceptual Option"=dword:00000000
"VideoType"=-
"Lookahead Ratecontrol"=-
"Encoder Thread Affinity"=-
"Force Range Reduction"=-

thats it right there, feel free to test it to compare if you want...

[uncle fester]

Well that ought to shut up the haters, well done pro

[Leeghoofd]

Don't give them ideas Young Pro :p

Darn, seems you got far too much time to explore all them settings...

[George_o/c]

Hardcore stuff there dude, well done! It's been so long since someone actually found a new tweak in the benchmarks we all use

[Linuxfan]

some people can't let this go, so here, ill be a real nice guy and explain a little clearer..

results i put in the public domain, i never physically modified any binaries, i never replaced any codecs or replaced dlls.. i used traditional tweak methods with new ideas..

can i share one example? the pcmark 05 video encoding going through the roof... 1 simple registry patch.. this part of the benchmark is controlled by the windows media encoder, and this is why you must installed this windows media encoder and windows media player 10 if you want to play pcm05..

you might also want to check out wmv powertoy as you can manipulate all the settings of this powertoy directly via a gui

here are the settings i used, im sure you can find better ones if you so choose
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...oysettings.jpg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Scrunch\WMVideo]
"Compression Optimization Type"=-
"DenoiseOption"=dword:00000000
"Dquant Option"=dword:00000000
"Dquant Strength"=dword:00000000
"Force B Frame Delta QP"=-
"Force Encoding Width"=dword:00000020
"Force Encoding Height"=dword:00000020
"Force LoopFilter"=dword:00000000
"Force Median"=dword:00000000
"Force NoiseEdgeRemoval"=dword:00000000
"Force NumThreads"=dword:00000004
"Force Overlap"=dword:00000000
"Force Video Scaling"=dword:00000000
"Lookahead"=-
"Macroblock Mode Cost Method"=-
"Motion Match Method"=-
"Motion Search Level"=-
"Motion Search Range"=-
"Motion Vector Coding Method"=-
"Motion Vector Cost Method"=-
"NumBFrames"=-
"Perceptual Option"=dword:00000000
"VideoType"=-
"Lookahead Ratecontrol"=-
"Encoder Thread Affinity"=-
"Force Range Reduction"=-

thats it right there, feel free to test it to compare if you want...

Thanks for bring it out in the open so everybody can see.

[filmbot]

Since this isn't physically changing the app, just using a 3rd party app, does this make using this app legal? Seems it would be since we use many other 3rd party apps to help improve scores.

[Dualist]

Love your work Pro, thanks for the heads up

And this is so true dude....

and remember, if everyone has it, its a tweak, if one person has it, its a cheat

[Leeghoofd]

Now the browser trick :p

[G H Z]

hwbot may allow encoder tweaking, but it needs to be looked at/discussed first. Pretty sure FM would say no but hwbot on the other hand may because it has always been more open to tweaks.

Changing the browser however will never fly.

[Marco André]

Now the browser trick :p

pro said before he's using another browser to bump the score *a bit*

Serious skill

[youngpro]

well im not asking hwbot allow anything, i am simply putting something in the open that i hear regular untrue rumours about.. thats all guys, if you want to play with these sorts of things, please keep them off futuremark and hwbot unless those guys say they are okay

[1Day]

Pro you take the time to test and try stuff - that is how so many of the accepted tweaks we use now were found. People like you, true enthusiasts, who simply wanted to see just what could be done pioneered them all. So as I have said to you in the past you keep on rocking dude and thanks for sharing what you find. More power to the enquiring mind I say.