

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.This benchmark requires an OpenGL 2.0 compliant graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 5/6/7/8 (and higher), AMD/ATI Radeon 9600 (and higher) or a S3 Graphics Chrome 400 series with the latest graphics drivers. You have to purchase a new video card with OpenGL 2.0 or higher. If the tool detects an OpenGL lower than 2.0 like OpenGL 1.0, you cannot use Furmark. This tool will help you verify the OpenGL version supported by your video card. For Intel, there are only open source drivers. I got a request to build a system with as much CUDA power in a single OS instance as humanly possible, money being (almost) no object. Follow the instructions to download and unpack the file. They are called nvidia-current for nvidia and fglrx for ATI.

FurMark is free for download and use and it requires an OpenGL 2.0 compliant GPU such as NVIDA GeForce 5/6/7/8 or higher and AMD/ATI Radeon 9600 or newer. OpenGL version: 1.1.0 1) Your graphics processor is too old to support OpenGL 2.0 2). For advanced users there is an ability to use the contest mode. It would not load saying I needed OpenGL. An intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card.įurMark is a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card. If your check turns up that your hardware supports OpenGL 2.0 (which most do), you can try the proprietary drivers. Error Message: OpenGL 2.0 or higher with the FBO extension is required. Playing a 3-D game I was only getting 2fps so I dtried testing the graphics with Furmark which I have used many times.
