Hi all,
finally I got around to reviewing the viewbench code and create a new version. The latest code is available from
ftp://ftp.cocreate.com/sdtestpackage/viewbench as usual. To run the new version, you'll have to download both the code file (currently, viewbench_231_code.zip) and the models file (viewbench_models.zip). You can find further instructions at
http://www.clausbrod.de/Osdm/ViewbenchResults where you can also post benchmark results.
The new version is no longer a compiled DLL, but a simple Lisp file. I stripped the original benchmark code down so that it now makes sense to distribute it in an uncompiled format. The big plus with this approach is there are no longer two different DLLs for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of OSDM, and it is also much more likely that the code will simply run in new releases of OSDM, even if I don't find the time to re-compile the code.
Apart from stripping down the original code, I improved reporting - now you'll get a nice summary in a browser window instead of plain ASCII output in an obscure logfile.
Best of all, I reorganized the code so that it is now a lot easier to add new test models and complete sets of test models to the benchmark. This is a significant improvement because the original test models aren't really suitable anymore to max out today's graphics cards. Hence, creating a new test set is probably the most important next improvement to the benchmark on the list. Anybody who wants to contribute models (which need to be freely redistributable) is most welcome.
Hope the new version works for everyone; thanks for your feedback!
Claus