D is the last letter

[red_star]

www.futuremark.com

You will notice the letter D which is the last of the word OWNED.

I guess 6+ hours are left till 3DMark05 is released...

[jAkUp]

They never had an "E"

It went o-w-n-d

My guess is that it is spelling out the word "Download" just in a different order.

[aAv7]

Cant wait to see how many people oc their cards to the max to gain that extra 20 points in 05 for braggin rights lol.

[SLippe]

I'm guessing it is going to spell "DOWNLOAD!".

[sabrewulf165]

I'm guessing it's the biggest overblown waste of time ever. Futuremark must have some serious delusions about their own importance if they are willing to irk this many people with this stupid game of theirs.

[FierceDeityLink]

eVGA has that stupid scavenger hunt contest and no one seemed to complain about that, but I guess a small group of people one stuff...

[Vagrant Zero]

eVGA has that stupid scavenger hunt contest and no one seemed to complain about that, but I guess a small group of people one stuff...

WTF? How are the 2 even remotely similar. eVGA was giving away freaking top of the line video cards. Futuremark is giving away e-penis enhancement pills.

[mikedep333]

The "countdown" is rediculous. Its like saying it will be released at 5:00 some day over the next month, but not knowing which day. As long as they keep resetting the letter, its pointless to follow. All they're doing is getting our hopes up and then squashing them repeatedly. They had better stop manipulating us to get us excited like this right now.

BTW: right now its believed there are only 3 game tests, not 4, wtf?

[Sgt_Pitt]

yeah i play 3dmark all the time, i like that bit when you have to dodge the troll, ohh wait its not a real game. hmm

stoopid futuremark, its the frames in your favourite games that count not some stoopid E-penile enlarger

[myshkinbob]

if you can forget the irresistable thoughts of e-penises for a moment (whatever they actually are), you'd realise 3dmark05 is actually an application designed to predict the direction, performance, and rather impressively the image quality of games over the next year or so. I don't know about you but i'm rather eager to see the kind of effects and enhancements things like multisampled soft shadows will bring to pc gaming. 9/10 people run the demo before the benchmark.

[Sgt_Pitt]

yes yes i am, im angry its not out :D

[wEEt]

i don't see any letter...it's currently 8944xxxx