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Benchmate issues

Fouquin

Fouquin

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I fucking hate Benchmate. Fresh install of Win10 22H2 and BM12.1, refuses to work. Worked two days ago when I was running a different motherboard, but that board was having other issues and I needed to swap back to a board that isn't UEFI, so figured I'd do a fresh install as well. Now it just shits itself. Same exact ISO and setup routine as last time.

What should have been one and done in 30 minutes is now an hour and a half of bullshit. Fuck this program, fuck how difficult it has made simple benchmarking. I fucking hate Benchmate.

And yes I went through and set admin rights and took ownership of every single file to try to solve this. That's what I spent 90 minutes doing, and it didn't help.
 
Fouquin said:
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I fucking hate Benchmate. Fresh install of Win10 22H2 and BM12.1, refuses to work. Worked two days ago when I was running a different motherboard, but that board was having other issues and I needed to swap back to a board that isn't UEFI, so figured I'd do a fresh install as well. Now it just shits itself. Same exact ISO and setup routine as last time.

What should have been one and done in 30 minutes is now an hour and a half of bullshit. Fuck this program, fuck how difficult it has made simple benchmarking. I fucking hate Benchmate.

And yes I went through and set admin rights and took ownership of every single file to try to solve this. That's what I spent 90 minutes doing, and it didn't help.
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What is the platform? Are the chipset (smbus) drivers installed?
 
ShrimpBrime said:
What is the platform? Are the chipset (smbus) drivers installed?
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AM3, 890FX. Yes, this has all the drivers installed to their latest versions. Previous platform was 990FX with effectively the same driver stack. Yes, ACPI 2.0 is supported and enabled. Yes, HPET is supported and enabled. Also yes this configuration has worked in the past with BM11.0.

I appreciate what you are trying to do but I've already wiped this drive clean of Benchmate's shoddy existence and moved back to doing things the hard way in Win7. I'm just so sick of this solution in search of a problem roadblock of a program constantly getting in the way of my fun and turning my pass time into a massive fucking headache that devours my precious little downtime.
 
Fouquin said:
AM3, 890FX. Yes, this has all the drivers installed to their latest versions. Previous platform was 990FX with effectively the same driver stack. Yes, ACPI 2.0 is supported and enabled. Yes, HPET is supported and enabled. Also yes this configuration has worked in the past with BM11.0.

I appreciate what you are trying to do but I've already wiped this drive clean of Benchmate's shoddy existence and moved back to doing things the hard way in Win7. I'm just so sick of this solution in search of a problem roadblock of a program constantly getting in the way of my fun and turning my pass time into a massive fucking headache that devours my precious little downtime.
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HPET in windows, Enabled is only for x265 benchmark, which is not built into benchmate. So you can disable in windows. On in bios is ok, which is how windows sets up as defaults.

You may need to remove manually the old benchmate files left behind and clean the registry.

This happened to me a long time ago, and I can't remember exactly the fix at this moment. I am sorry for that.
 
ShrimpBrime said:
You may need to remove manually the old benchmate files left behind and clean the registry.
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There were none to remove. This was a completely fresh install on a freshly formatted drive. So fresh in fact that the packing material the drive arrived in is still sitting on the desk beside me...
 
I get it, when it works it's great when it doesn't you just don't have any alternative, I've got a 6th gen Intel laptop it just refuses to work on claiming hpet isn't there when it is
 
Yup there is a big package of c++ updates you can grab. If I don't install it, I usually get them from a game install.

It is a pita sometimes, I know..
 
Fouquin said:
There were none to remove. This was a completely fresh install on a freshly formatted drive. So fresh in fact that the packing material the drive arrived in is still sitting on the desk beside me...
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Then maybe the download was fubar. Try winrar too maybe?
 
Fouquin said:
View attachment 385100

I fucking hate Benchmate. Fresh install of Win10 22H2 and BM12.1, refuses to work. Worked two days ago when I was running a different motherboard, but that board was having other issues and I needed to swap back to a board that isn't UEFI, so figured I'd do a fresh install as well. Now it just shits itself. Same exact ISO and setup routine as last time.

What should have been one and done in 30 minutes is now an hour and a half of bullshit. Fuck this program, fuck how difficult it has made simple benchmarking. I fucking hate Benchmate.

And yes I went through and set admin rights and took ownership of every single file to try to solve this. That's what I spent 90 minutes doing, and it didn't help.
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You need to copy the install file to C:
And you need to install benchmate to C:

Its limitation/bug with current version which will get fixed next update
 
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Here's what happens if I attempt to install v11.x or v12.x on my Windows 10 build (i5-12600K, 3070Ti). Support couldn't solve the problem and suggested that I wait until the next release to try again. Running 10.12.2 in the meantime. Installs and runs fine on the Windows 11 build, though.
 
I have no problems with Benchmate, @damric has my old C5F AM3+ board and I don't think he has issues with benchmate on it either tmk, and it's also 990FX. Contact the developer perhaps.
 
Fouquin said:
View attachment 385100

I fucking hate Benchmate. Fresh install of Win10 22H2 and BM12.1, refuses to work. Worked two days ago when I was running a different motherboard, but that board was having other issues and I needed to swap back to a board that isn't UEFI, so figured I'd do a fresh install as well. Now it just shits itself. Same exact ISO and setup routine as last time.

What should have been one and done in 30 minutes is now an hour and a half of bullshit. Fuck this program, fuck how difficult it has made simple benchmarking. I fucking hate Benchmate.

And yes I went through and set admin rights and took ownership of every single file to try to solve this. That's what I spent 90 minutes doing, and it didn't help.
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Developer of BenchMate here. Wow, "hate" is a strong word. I certainly don't want to cause negative feelings with my hobby project.

The cause of the "#740" bug was a Windows issue with an upgraded application manifest of BenchMate. HWiNFO moved to the more restrictive "UIAccess" manifest policy (more information here) and BM could not launch HWiNFO anymore. So I added "UIAccess" as well, but with the intricate ways BenchMate works (an executable loads another executable, which then loads another executable and injects a DLL in there), this caused weird problems on some Windows versions. I don't know why to this day, but it seems like a Windows bug to me.

In any case, there is a new version, BenchMate 13, that completely gets rid of this bug: https://benchmate.org
If you have any issues, please let me know. Official support is on the HWBOT discord: https://discord.gg/DWQVaSs

stahlhart said:
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Here's what happens if I attempt to install v11.x or v12.x on my Windows 10 build (i5-12600K, 3070Ti). Support couldn't solve the problem and suggested that I wait until the next release to try again. Running 10.12.2 in the meantime. Installs and runs fine on the Windows 11 build, though.
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This is a Windows installer bug due to digital signature problems. There is always an archive of the latest release hosted on my website, that you can just unpack. Be sure to read the install instructions in case you are using outdated Windows versions or Windows 7.
 
_mat_ said:
Developer of BenchMate here. Wow, "hate" is a strong word. I certainly don't want to cause negative feelings with my hobby project.

The cause of the "#740" bug was a Windows issue with an upgraded application manifest of BenchMate. HWiNFO moved to the more restrictive "UIAccess" manifest policy (more information here) and BM could not launch HWiNFO anymore. So I added "UIAccess" as well, but with the intricate ways BenchMate works (an executable loads another executable, which then loads another executable and injects a DLL in there), this caused weird problems on some Windows versions. I don't know why to this day, but it seems like a Windows bug to me.

In any case, there is a new version, BenchMate 13, that completely gets rid of this bug: https://benchmate.org
If you have any issues, please let me know. Official support is on the HWBOT discord: https://discord.gg/DWQVaSs


This is a Windows installer bug due to digital signature problems. There is always an archive of the latest release hosted on my website, that you can just unpack. Be sure to read the install instructions in case you are using outdated Windows versions or Windows 7.
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I love BenchMate! Thank you for your time :)
 
Fouquin said:
What should have been one and done in 30 minutes is now an hour and a half of bullshit. Fuck this program, fuck how difficult it has made simple benchmarking. I fucking hate Benchmate.
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This is how I feel about microsoft's nonsense with Windows.. If I may be so bold, why try to use it?
 
lexluthermiester said:
This is how I feel about microsoft's nonsense with Windows.. If I may be so bold, why try to use it?
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Not to speak for others, but the benchmate is designed for 2 main reasons.
1. Ease of submissions.
2. Anti-cheating

#2 covers windows file integrity as well as monitoring all the hardware for accurate submissions.

Might be more to it, we'd ask @_mat_ for deeper details maybe.
 
lexluthermiester said:
This is how I feel about microsoft's nonsense with Windows.. If I may be so bold, why try to use it?
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Idk about windows but I don’t see the point either. File integrity is already present and built into any of the legit benchmarks. Guess I’m just too old school I wouldn’t touch this software, if anything I consider it tampering if it’s touching legit 3Dmark installers.

Guess it has to be kind of legit if HWbot accepts submissions from it but eh couldn’t convince me to touch it, I’ll just download whatever bench I want vanilla thanks.
 
lexluthermiester said:
Not so much here.. Can't be that much of a problem, is it?
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Yes it is actually an issue. Or can be.

Since W8 the clock timers can skew causing inaccurate benchmark scores.

Meaning the benchmark time might actually be shorter than intended causing a better score. People can learn to cheat. Something you see often with gaming. There's anti-cheat systems on almost every game engine for the last 20 years. Same principle.
 
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