Quote Originally Posted by FM_Jarnis View Post
I think I am.

What you are describing is a way to game the system with 3DMark 2001 as things like this were not taken into account during the development.

It is not possible to game that way on our modern benchmarks. You may disagree with that decision, but we think it is important to do it like this to get results that are useful for something other than just going for a record score.

It ultimately boils down to the question - do you want benchmark to be;

- A program that spits out a number that depends on your hardware and on how you tweak and poke the settings to the maximum in order game the number to be bigger.

OR

- A program that spits out a number that gives an indication of the performance of your hardware. Period. Want a bigger number? Tweak the hardware.
You could just add a Freestyle preset that allows per-stage scores to be saved (~ 01). Freestyle has the same default settings as another preset (performance), but allows 'gaming' the system like 01.