As a child, when I was a schoolboy, my friends and I went to a computer store where various benchmarks were run on a demo PC, and I remember the Final Reality Benchmark very well. At that time, for us boys, it seemed like something magical, in that sense there was nothing better, and we could not imagine a schedule that would be cooler for us. And I got a computer a year later, when I entered the university, and my father gave me such a gift for successful entrance exams. It was a golden time, which I always remember fondly.
Thanks for the video, would love to see all the other Future Crew demos, especially a 4k version of "Second Reality", and any others of their catalogue of stuff.
2:31 good ole future crew, the first time i ran the benchmark and seen that scene i was taken back to the early 90s seeing second reality demo for the first time.
That was great, I've never seen it before! I remember when nVidia announced they were getting rid of the risque lady demos, I found an archive of all of them and started playing around with them on my then RTX 2060, including the lady ones lol. It was really wild to see how good they looked if you played around with the AA and resolution settings. A handful didn't work at all, but most of them still worked great. It felt like I was back as a kid, seeing box art and demos at computer stores, always wondering if I'd ever get one of those cool graphics card thingies. First one ended up being a 8800 GTX, quite the beast of a card at the time. I believe I downloaded a number of nVidias then contemporary demos and was amazed at all the detail. I recall seeing the Human Head demo on G4 during E3 coverage and thought it looked amazing, and I was even more amazed when I had hardware that could actually render that in real time myself.
The music sounds very similar to Second Reality in many places! I don't know this demo but I don't know if it's a benchmark, probably just a demo - especially as it was released at The Assembly
I've never stopped using it and I can run it on my modern system by drag and drop porting. It can tell me if my 2D or 3D transfer rate is working properly. Factory settings at 75Hz to 85Hz will produce the best stable base line scores. That's the final reality. Unless you're upset about the missing brain texture from DX5.
Never saw this back in the days. Heh, I got strong Demoscene vibes from this right from the get go. Then that starship (*cough* *cough* Triton - Crystal Dream 2) and the music in that part.... Yeah, "First presented at Assembly '97" ;) Yep, nice.
As a child, when I was a schoolboy, my friends and I went to a computer store where various benchmarks were run on a demo PC, and I remember the Final Reality Benchmark very well. At that time, for us boys, it seemed like something magical, in that sense there was nothing better, and we could not imagine a schedule that would be cooler for us. And I got a computer a year later, when I entered the university, and my father gave me such a gift for successful entrance exams. It was a golden time, which I always remember fondly.
I feel the exact same! Love stories like this - thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the video, would love to see all the other Future Crew demos, especially a 4k version of "Second Reality", and any others of their catalogue of stuff.
2:31 good ole future crew, the first time i ran the benchmark and seen that scene i was taken back to the early 90s seeing second reality demo for the first time.
A few people mentioned this - I need to check out second reality! 😎
i used to work at compusa in nj with Second Reality by Future Crew demo playing all the time.
For 1997 this looks amazing. I don't remember if I ever used it.
Brings me back -- those reflections!
Oh yes, that is a very good memory. It’s basically the reason I moved to Finland a few years ago and now joined team 3DMark this year. ❤😁
Oh wow! Congrats!!
Thanks. Happy holidays :-)
@@TheRealDancisfrake you too!
That was great, I've never seen it before! I remember when nVidia announced they were getting rid of the risque lady demos, I found an archive of all of them and started playing around with them on my then RTX 2060, including the lady ones lol. It was really wild to see how good they looked if you played around with the AA and resolution settings. A handful didn't work at all, but most of them still worked great. It felt like I was back as a kid, seeing box art and demos at computer stores, always wondering if I'd ever get one of those cool graphics card thingies. First one ended up being a 8800 GTX, quite the beast of a card at the time. I believe I downloaded a number of nVidias then contemporary demos and was amazed at all the detail. I recall seeing the Human Head demo on G4 during E3 coverage and thought it looked amazing, and I was even more amazed when I had hardware that could actually render that in real time myself.
Wow. What a throw-back
Glad you enjoyed it!
So far I watched this 4 times I think.
Hopefully this means there's going to be a video on how to install and run old 3D benchmarks on modern PC's!🤔😂
Great idea!!
@@jamesfmackenzie how did you run this one? I once tried and it wouldn't even try
Oh, i never had this benchmark running. I am gonna test it on my Pentium II machine, voodoo 2. It looks great. Thanks for this video 😊
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed 😎
Beautiful times 3dfx , GeForce 256 ... 3d Mark 99 MAX , 3d Mark 2000 ...
Yes indeed! Great memories 😎
Figured out how to run it: you need a modified setup executable from Google
The music sounds very similar to Second Reality in many places! I don't know this demo but I don't know if it's a benchmark, probably just a demo - especially as it was released at The Assembly
It’s a benchmark too! And a tribute to Second Reality by Remedy 😎
That's very maturefurk of you.
What did you do to get this to work on a modern PC? Is this a 32-bit version of Win 7 or something? What are your specs?
I've never stopped using it and I can run it on my modern system by drag and drop porting.
It can tell me if my 2D or 3D transfer rate is working properly.
Factory settings at 75Hz to 85Hz will produce the best stable base line scores.
That's the final reality. Unless you're upset about the missing brain texture from DX5.
How did you run this on modern machine? VM?
I was able to install on a modern PC with otvdm 😎
github.com/otya128/winevdm
no, but I sure remember 2nd Reality by Futurecrew ..the benchmark of my youth... ua-cam.com/video/L33eQfT72yo/v-deo.html
Never saw this back in the days. Heh, I got strong Demoscene vibes from this right from the get go. Then that starship (*cough* *cough* Triton - Crystal Dream 2) and the music in that part.... Yeah, "First presented at Assembly '97" ;) Yep, nice.
it's not 4K it's upscaled ;/
😂 Yes unfortunately I wasn’t able to boost it above the native 640x480 defaults 😭
Hopefully the post process upscaler is not too bad!!
you don't say........
@@jamesfmackenzie i wonder how it would look with an AI upscaler
@@jamesfmackenzie DgVoodoo2 cannot help with this one?
@@thewhyzer Good idea! It might be possible to boost the res with dgvoodoo or nglide etc
And all of this only 7 megabytes
4:30 cancelled for vague swastika