FurMark 1.6.5 has just been released and now supports the ATI Catalyst 9.1 drivers.

FurMark 1.6.5 ChangeLog:

  • Change: workaround for Catalyst 9.1 when Catalyst A.I is enabled: all textures used by FurMark are now in 4-channel RGBA format (in the previous versions, some textures were in 3-channel RGB format…).
  • Change: the OpenGL version used by the renderer is now displayed in stability test mode (near renderer’s description) – thanks to David Legrand 😉
  • Change: by default the creation of an OpenGL 3.0 rendering context is disabled. If you want to enable it, just start FurMark in command line with the /gl3 parameter or use the batch file called Start-FurMark-OGL3.bat.
  • Change: small modifications in OpenGL 3.0 context creation.
  • Change: workaround for Catalyst 9.1 bug in glGetString(GL_VERSION) when an OpenGL 3.0 context is used.
  • Removed: timer check in contest mode.

And in case you don’t know what FurMark is, then from their site:

FurMark is a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card. Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU and that’s why FurMark is also a perfect stability and stress test tool (also called GPU burner) for the graphics card.

The benchmark offers several options allowing the user to tweak the rendering: fullscreen / windowed mode, MSAA selection, window size, duration.

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