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3DMark FAQ for Windows Editions
Is 3DMark compatible with Windows 10?
Yes, as long as as long as SystemInfo 4.40 or later is installed. The Steam version automatically includes this update. The standalone version will notify if your SystemInfo is out of date.
Is 3DMark compatible with Windows 8 / 8.1?
Yes, 3DMark is compatible with Windows 8 and 8.1. Note that tests using DirectX 12 cannot be run on Windows 8 / 8.1. Windows 8 is no longer a supported OS, so an update to Windows 8.1 may be required to run DirectX 11 tests.
Why does the benchmark run so slowly? Why are my framerates so low?
Benchmarks are designed to place a heavy load on your PC to identify the weak points and bottlenecks in your hardware. It is sometimes the case that only small differences in visual quality can be seen from very large increases in the amount of processing required.
I have 3DMark Advanced Edition but some tests and features are locked. How come?
Every year, we add new benchmarks, tests, and features to 3DMark. Many of these updates are free. Some require an upgrade that costs a little more. You can find out more about 3DMark updates and upgrades here.
If you bought 3DMark before July 14, 2016, you will need to to purchase the Time Spy upgrade to unlock additional tests, settings, and features for Time Spy Extreme, Time Spy, and Night Raid.
If you bought 3DMark before January 8, 2019, you will need to purchase the Port Royal upgrade to unlock additional tests, settings, and features for Port Royal, as well as the NVIDIA DLSS feature test.
What version of DirectX does 3DMark use?
Time Spy Extreme, Time Spy, Night Raid, and Port Royal benchmarks use a DirectX 12 engine.
Fire Strike Ultra, Fire Strike Extreme, Fire Strike and Sky Diver use a DirectX 11 engine.
Cloud Gate uses a DirectX 11 engine limited to Direct3D feature level 10_0.
Ice Storm uses a DirectX 11 engine limited to Direct3D feature level 9_1.
Does 3DMark use DirectX 11.2?
Does 3DMark use DirectX 11.1?
Yes, but only in a minor way and with a fallback for DirectX 11 to ensure compatibility with the widest range of hardware and to ensure that all tests work with Windows Vista and Windows 7 as well as Windows 8.
DirectX 11.1 API features were evaluated and those that could be utilized to accelerate the rendering techniques in the tests designed to run on DirectX 11.0 were used.
Discard resources and resource views
In cases where subsequent Direct3D draw calls will overwrite the entire resource or resource view and the application knows this, but it is not possible for the display driver to deduce it, a discard call is made to help the driver in optimizing resource usage. If DirectX 11.1 is not supported, a clear call or no call at all is made instead, depending on the exact situation. This DX11.1 optimization may have a performance effect with multi-GPU setups or with hardware featuring tile based rendering (sometimes found in tablets and entry level notebooks).
16 bpp texture formats
The 16 bpp texture formats supported by DirectX 11.1 are used on Ice Storm game tests to store intermediate rendering results during post processing steps. If support for those formats is not found, 32 bpp formats are used instead. This optimization gives a noticeable performance effect on hardware for which the Ice Storm tests provide a suitable benchmark workload (tablets, entry level notebooks).
There are no visual differences between the tests when using DX11 or DX11.1 in 3DMark and the practical performance difference from these optimizations is limited to Ice Storm on very low end Windows hardware.
Does Port Royal use DLSS?
No. Port Royal is designed to run on any graphics card that supports Microsoft DirectX Raytracing. It does not use any vendor-specific technologies. You can use the NVIDIA DLSS feature test to test and compare DLSS performance.
How can I test DLSS performance with 3DMark?
Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is an NVIDIA RTX technology that uses the power of deep learning and AI to improve game performance while maintaining visual quality. You can use the NVIDIA DLSS feature test to compare frame rate performance and image quality with and without DLSS processing. To run this test, you must have an NVIDIA graphics card that supports DLSS, such as a GeForce RTX series, Quadro RTX series or TITAN RTX.
I modified custom rendering options in Port Royal Custom and the scene appears to render incorrectly?
Disabling transparents and disabling reflections will just turn off parts of the rendering without any fallbacks. These options are meant to assist in evaluating performance impact of these specific effects, so the scene will look incomplete. This is by design.
If Ice Storm is a DirectX 9 test, why doesn't 3DMark work on Windows XP?
Ice Storm uses a DirectX 11 engine limited to Direct3D feature level 9_1. 3DMark will not run on Windows XP PCs, since DirectX 11 is not available on Windows XP.
What is the difference between 3DMark Fire Strike and 3DMark 11?
3DMark 11 is our first DirectX 11 benchmark, released in December 2010. 3DMark Fire Strike, released in February 2013, is our second generation DirectX 11 benchmark and is the more modern and demanding of the two.
Default rendering resolution
- 3DMark 11 Performance preset - 1280 × 720 (720p)
- 3DMark Fire Strike - 1920 × 1080 (1080p)
Extreme preset rendering resolution
- 3DMark 11 Extreme preset - 1920 × 1080 (1080p)
- 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme - 2560 × 1440 (1440p)
While 3DMark 11's Entry preset can prove useful for testing entry-level hardware, in most cases we recommend using 3DMark Fire Strike for testing DirectX 11 based systems. Scores from 3DMark 11 and 3DMark Fire Strike cannot be directly compared.
What is the difference between 3DMark Sky Diver and 3DMark Fire Strike?
Together, Sky Diver and Fire Strike let you test the full range of DirectX 11 graphics hardware. Fire Strike is equivalent to testing a system with a modern DirectX 11 game on ultra-high settings. Sky Diver is more like running a game on normal settings. As a general guide:
- If a system scores less than 2800 in Fire Strike you should run Sky Diver.
- If a system scores more than 12000 in Sky Diver, you should run Fire Strike.
Please note that Sky Diver and Fire Strike scores are not directly comparable.
What is the difference between 3DMark Fire Strike and 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme?
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme is a slightly modified version of 3DMark Fire Strike and is designed for high end multi-GPU (SLI/Crossfire) systems and future hardware generations. In addition to the higher rendering resolution, additional visual quality improvements increase the rendering load to ensure accurate performance measurements for truly extreme hardware setups.
Scores from 3DMark Fire Strike and Fire Strike Extreme should not be compared to each other - they are separate tests with their own scores, even if they share the same benchmark scenes.
What is the difference between 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme and 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra?
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra is the exactly same test as Fire Strike Extreme, but with the rendering resolution increased to UHD (2160p). It is designed for testing high end multi-GPU (SLI/Crossfire) systems and future hardware generations for their performance at UHD (2160p) resolution.
Scores from 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra should not be directly compared to Fire Strike or Fire Strike Extreme scores - they are separate tests with their own scores, even if they share the same benchmark scenes.
What is the difference between 3DMark Cloud Gate and 3DMark Vantage?
3DMark Vantage and 3DMark Cloud Gate are both benchmarks for DirectX 10 capable hardware. The difference is in the engine powering each benchmark. 3DMark Vantage, released in April 2008, uses a DirectX 10 engine. In comparison, 3DMark Cloud Gate uses a DirectX 11 engine limited to Direct3D feature level 10_0. Using Direct3D feature levels is the modern approach to game engine design as it allows developers to use a DirectX 11 engine and still support older generation hardware all the way down to DirectX 9 level models.
We recommend using 3DMark Cloud Gate for testing DirectX 10 based systems. Scores from 3DMark Vantage and 3DMark Cloud Gate cannot be directly compared.
What is the difference between 3DMark Cloud Gate and 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme - they appear to be almost identical?
3DMark Cloud Gate is a test for DirectX 10 capable hardware. 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (and the lighter ES3.0 variant, 3DMark Sling Shot) are tests designed for mobile devices. When porting Cloud Gate to mobile devices, several limitations of the mobile hardware required us to make changes to the test content to ensure reasonable frame rates. In short, 3DMark Sling Shot and 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme are more lightweight versions of the Cloud Gate scene, optimized for mobile devices. Cloud Gate and Sling Shot scores are not comparable to each other.
What is the difference between 3DMark Ice Storm and 3DMark06?
3DMark06 and 3DMark Ice Storm are both benchmarks for DirectX 9 compatible hardware, however, they use different engines and target different types of hardware.
- 3DMark06 - DirectX 9
- 3DMark Ice Storm - DirectX 11 limited to Direct3D feature level 9_1
Target hardware
- 3DMark06 - powerful desktop gaming PCs (in 2006)
- 3DMark Ice Storm - powerful mobile devices (in 2013)
For testing modern gaming PCs we recommend using 3DMark Sky Diver or 3DMark Fire Strike rather than 3DMark06, since such systems will almost certainly support DirectX 11. 3DMark Ice Storm is the ideal modern benchmark for DirectX 9 compatible mobile devices such as tablets, netbooks, ultra-portable notebooks and entry-level PCs. Scores from 3DMark06 and 3DMark Ice Storm cannot be directly compared.
My 3DMark Ice Storm or 3DMark Cloud Gate score fluctuates wildly between runs. Is something wrong?
From tablets to 4K gaming PCs, the performance range of modern PC hardware is simply too wide to cover with a single benchmark test. That is why 3DMark includes a variety of benchmark tests, each one designed for a specific class of hardware.
3DMark Ice Storm was designed to test mobile devices such as tablets and netbooks in 2013. 3DMark Cloud Gate was designed for systems with DirectX 10-compatible integrated graphics in 2013.
Modern, high-end PCs can run these older tests at 1,000 frames per second or more. At those speeds, even a tiny variation in the time taken to render each frame can cause major changes in the frame rate, which results in a major fluctuation in the final score.
Score fluctuations can also result from power saving features when running older benchmark tests on modern hardware. With Ice Storm and Cloud Gate, the benchmark load is so light that the video card might switch to a lower operating frequency.
While you can run older tests on newer hardware, the scores they produce might be misleading. For example, with modern PCs and especially on multi-GPU (SLI/Crossfire) configurations, older benchmark tests will be limited by processor performance. When this happens, the benchmark result is no longer a measure of graphics card performance as designed.
You should always use the benchmark that is most appropriate for the hardware you are testing. To help you find the right test, 3DMark automatically scans your hardware and recommends the best benchmark for your PC.
I changed my desktop resolution and my scores changed slightly. Why?
3DMark always renders the tests internally at the resolution specified for each test ("offscreen rendering") and then scales the image to your desktop resolution before displaying it, preserving the aspect ratio (applying letterboxing if the desktop aspect ratio is not 16:9).
Internal rendering resolutions of 3DMark tests
- 3DMark Time Spy Extreme — 3840 × 2160 (4K UHD, also known as 2160p)
- 3DMark Time Spy — 2560 × 1440 (1440p)
- 3DMark Night Raid — 1920 × 1080 (1080p)
- 3DMark Port Royal — 2560 × 1440 (1440p)
- 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra — 3840 × 2160 (4K UHD, also known as 2160p)
- 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme — 2560 × 1440 (1440p)
- 3DMark Fire Strike — 1920 × 1080 (1080p)
- 3DMark Sky Diver — 1920 × 1080 (1080p)
- 3DMark Cloud Gate - 1280 × 720 (720p)
- 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme — 1920 × 1080 (1080p)
- 3DMark Ice Storm — 1280 × 720 (720p)
If you alter your desktop resolution, you will also alter the target resolution for the final image scaling. On modern hardware, display scaling is almost "free" and in general the scores are comparable no matter what desktop resolution you use. However, when a test becomes limited by the CPU and framerates get very high (Ice Storm on almost all desktop hardware, Cloud Gate and Sky Diver on high end hardware), there can be a small impact to the score from image scaling. If you seek to obtain the absolutely highest score from a test (for overclocking contest purposes, for example), setting the desktop resolution to match the internal rendering resolution of the test you are running may provide a very slight increase to your score.
Note that the introduction of 4K UHD ("4K") displays have slightly changed the situation regarding image scaling. If you are running Windows desktop at a very high resolution but your GPU is not very powerful, the scaling may actually require considerable amount of GPU resources and video memory. Running with integrated graphics or low end discrete GPUs at 4K and above desktop resolution with 3DMark is not recommended and your score may be degraded by the performance penalty of image scaling.
As a workaround, you can override the output resolution of 3DMark from the help tab and instead let your monitor handle the lower resolution image as-is. For most tests under these circumstances, an output resolution of 1920 × 1080 (1080p) is recommended.
Help tab also includes an option to change between letterboxed and stretched scaling. This can be used, for example, to scale the image to fill a triple monitor Eyefinity setup. Aspect ratio is not preserved when stretched is selected. Note that this does not change the workload - it is still rendered in the internal rendering resolution, just scaled differently.
Custom tab (Professional and Advanced Edition) allows you to alter the internal rendering resolution for a custom run. The usual caveat applies that custom runs do not produce an overall score and sub-scores cannot be directly compared to scores obtained with default settings.
Fire Strike runs fine on my system, yet Fire Strike Ultra is a complete slideshow, why?
UHD (2160p) resolution adds an immense amount of work for the GPU - the number of pixels being rendered is quadrupled over the 1080p rendering resolution of Fire Strike and this factor alone will cut the performance with Fire Strike Ultra to around 25-30% of what you'd see with Fire Strike. Also note that due to the high resolution, Fire Strike Ultra requires 3GB or more dedicated video RAM. If your system does not meet this requirement, it is up to the video driver to juggle resources around by using much slower main RAM as extension of the dedicated video RAM. This means the performance is greatly hampered on systems with too little dedicated video memory. You may also experience video driver crashes that ultimately boil down to the test running out of video memory. UHD (2160p) resolution is a tough challenge, even for the best GPUs out there.
Why are there ASUS, GALAX, Galaxy/KFA2, MSI, or other company logos in the benchmarks?
The logo placements are special sponsorship arrangements. Advertising placements ensure that we can offer the free 3DMark Basic Edition alongside the paid editions.
I have issues with the SystemInfo scan at the start with 3DMark - how do I fix this?
First make sure you have the latest update to SystemInfo installed.
Alternatively you can try disabling SystemInfo scan by unticking "Scan SystemInfo" in the Help tab but do note that any results from such a run cannot validated as they are missing information on the hardware configuration.
If you are getting a complete system hang during SystemInfo scan, ensure that HPET is enabled in your BIOS settings. SystemInfo Hardware Monitoring requires HPET (High Precision Event Timer) to function. Also ensure that your motherboard BIOS is up to date.
If you are running into problems with installing the latest SystemInfo update, you may have corrupted files in Windows installer cache. Easiest way of cleaning these up would be to try to uninstall Futuremark SystemInfo using a third party uninstallation tool that can clean up any corrupt or conflicting "junk" left over in Windows caches. There are many tools out there that can perform this, one example would be Revo Uninstaller but there are also others.
If you have an AMD Radeon RX 480, 580 or Vega card (only some models affected) you may also be affected by a compatibility issue with Futuremark SystemInfo 5.3 and your graphics card. We're working to solve this in a future update, but in the meanwhile you can resolve the issue by uninstalling the 5.3 version and reverting to Futuremark SystemInfo 5.1.
I'm using Windows Vista and I can't get 3DMark to start?
Windows Vista is no longer a supported OS for 3DMark. DirectX 11 tests may work if you have installed the Windows update that is required for DirectX 11 applications to run on Windows Vista. Download and install the Platform Update for Windows Vista from Microsoft.
If this update is present, do also note that AMD has ceased providing driver updates to Windows Vista (Catalyst 13.12 is currently the latest driver for Vista). Without a more recent AMD video driver available for Windows Vista, 3DMark is not guaranteed to work on such system configurations in all situations.
Common Problems
3DMark is failing at splash screen with Java SE Error.
This issue is caused by ASUS Sonic Radar 3 application. Please remove it or see if there is an updated version available from ASUS. Developer of the software (A-Volute) has stated that their latest version works, but they do not control what version ASUS distributes.
I am trying to run Port Royal test and it immediately crashes after the loading screen.
Ensure that your system actually has driver support for DirectX Raytracing. The UI will try to warn you if the support is not present in drivers, but you can try to run the test anyway. Crash in this situation is to be expected. If you are certain that your hardware and drivers should work with DXR, contact our support with the result file from Documents/3DMark/ folder.
I updated to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, or I got a new PC with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and I'm seeing a black screen during DX11 tests (Fire Strike, Sky Diver, Cloud Gate, Ice Storm). Time Spy works. What is wrong?
This is an issue with Intel graphics drivers and most commonly seen in laptops. This is true even if you are actually running the test on a dedicated video card. Please update your Intel integrated GPU drivers to 16.50 (184.108.40.20649) or later to correct the issue. Also it is strongly recommended to update your NVIDIA drivers to 388.13 or later, or AMD drivers to 17.11.1 (November 10) or later as these drivers are designed for Windows Fall Creators Update.
I updated from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 or from a previous Windows version to Windows 10 and now 3DMark refuses to start. Incompatible?
3DMark is compatible with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. The problem is that when updating to a new version of Windows, the update removes the SystemInfo service from Windows and 3DMark cannot start the required service on startup. Please uninstall SystemInfo, then either reinstall 3DMark or install the latest SystemInfo to fix the issue.
This issue can also happen when installing major Windows 10 updates (for example, Windows 10 November 2015 update) that are effectively performing an in-place OS upgrade.
I'm having problems starting the Steam version of 3DMark
Verify that all pre-requisites installed properly. 3DMark requires that Futuremark SystemInfo and NET Framework 4.5 are properly installed and normally Steam version of 3DMark installs these. However, if installation fails, 3DMark can then fail to start. If problem persists, contact our support and include details about your hardware configuration and background applications you have running on the system.
I'm having problems viewing results online ("View result online" doesn't do anything or an error comes up)
Check if you have antivirus software that blocks 3DMark from opening a browser. Reportedly at least Avira AV will prevent 3DMark from opening the default browser to display results. Temporarily disable such software and/or contact your security software support and ask for assistance. If this is not the cause, make sure you actually have a default browser set in Windows.
Also note that 3DMark automatically uses the proxy settings of Windows (which are configured in Internet Options) - if you are using a web proxy server that requires authentication, 3DMark cannot contact www.3dmark.com and online features of 3DMark cannot work with such configuration.
I'm having problems with SLI/Crossfire performance and I have more than two video cards
Note that Multi-GPU configurations with more than two cards use up additional video memory due to resources that have to be duplicated on every card. For Fire Strike we recommend at least 1.5GB per card for 3-4x SLI/Crossfire and Fire Strike Extreme we recommend 2GB or more per card. The tests should run even when using cards with less memory but there will be a performance penalty as video driver has to use main RAM to extend the video memory.
I'm having stability issues when running loop testing and get error about display resolution changing.
While the loop tickbox in Custom tab does disable most of the anti-tampering checks, when loop testing for hours in full screen mode, the run can be interrupted if some background application draws a popup or task bar notification as it causes a switch back to the desktop view. 3DMark cannot recover from such display mode change.
For very long stability stress tests we recommend testing using the windowed mode. Windowed mode is not interrupted by task bar popups or other interrupts from background applications, only actual driver crashes or general system instability will stop the test. When looping all parts of a test, there are loading screens with light load between each part. For maximum load set the stress test loop to loop a single part of a test - Fire Strike Game Test 1, for example - and the loop will be continous without loading screens. Note that when looping, the run will never produce a score.
Also we recommend disabling Scan Systeminfo from the help tab for loop testing - you are not going to get a result file anyway, so there is little point in gathering hardware data and in very long loops the hardware monitoring dataset (temperatures, clock frequencies etc.) can be so large that it could in theory cause stability problems.
Sky Diver Demo hangs with black screen (or very dark screen with faint outline of the main character) just as the scene switches from outdoors to the cave.
This issue was (mostly) fixed in 3DMark v1.5.884, but unfortunately it seems that it can still (rarely) occur. If you are still experiencing this issue, contact our support with full details about your hardware configuration, including motherboard model and BIOS version.
3DMark Error Messages
"Ouch! Something has gone wrong.", "An unknown error occurred." or "An error occurred while running benchmark."
These are generic errors that comes up when something unexpected happens. These errors should include a full technical error message about the issue. If you have no idea what could have caused the problem, contact our support with the full error message for further assistance.
"It seems that you're running Windows 7"
3DMark requires Service Pack 1 on Windows 7 to run. Please install Windows 7 SP1. We also recommend installing all recommended Windows Updates.
"It seems that you're running Windows Vista" or "It seems that you're running Windows XP or an older version of Windows."
On Windows Vista 3DMark requires Service Pack 2 and DirectX 11 Platform Update for Windows Vista from Microsoft. We also recommend installing all recommended Windows Updates.
There is no way to run 3DMark on Windows XP. If you are still using Windows XP (or even older version of Windows), you will need to upgrade your operating system to correct this issue.
"Window focus lost during benchmark run."
This error occurs if some background application interferes with 3DMark and tries to draw a popup window, an overlay or otherwise switches the window focus from full screen 3DMark view during a benchmark run. In such cases the score would no longer be accurate so the test is aborted.
Most common culprits causing this error include various instant messaging and email applications that give popups when a new message arrives. Turn off such applications and try again. In general it is recommended to close any unneeded background applications before benchmarking a system to ensure that all system resources are available during the test.
"Connecting to www.3DMark.com failed. Are you connected to the Internet?"
Online result validation and result viewing online both require internet connection. This error usually means that you are not connected to the internet or you cannot reach 3DMark.com server at all. 3DMark.com itself is almost certainly still online - you just can't reach it.
"Could not connect online." or "Service temporarily unavailable."
A subtly different problem - you have an internet connection and 3DMark.com can be reached but for some reason the server is down. This could be a temporary downtime due to deployment of of new updates to 3DMark.com result service - in such cases it should clear itself within a few minutes. Alternatively this could be an unplanned downtime and our administrators are already busy restoring service. If the problem persists for longer, contact our support to ensure that we're aware of the problem.
"Online result validation failed."
Something is wrong with the 3DMark.com result validation service. If there is nothing out of the ordinary with your benchmark run and the problem persists, contact our support with details about your hardware and save a copy of your result to a file (if using Professional or Advanced Edition) in case it is needed to investigate the problem.
"Checking DirectX compatibility failed."
This is a highly unusual error message that would imply that DirectX is not properly installed or it simply refuses to provide information on the hardware available. Contact our support with full details about your hardware configuration and your operating system for further assistance.
"DirectX 9/10/11/12 compatible hardware required."
A DirectX 9 compatible video card is the minimum for starting 3DMark and it is required for the Ice Storm test. There is a further requirement of DirectX 10 capable card for Cloud Gate, DirectX 11 capable card for Sky Diver and Fire Strike tests and DirectX 11 capable card with DirectX 12 compatible drivers (and Windows 10) for Time Spy. If you know for a fact that you have the proper hardware and are still getting this error, it may be caused by corrupt video driver installation. Try completely removing your video drivers with a third party driver cleaning utility, then reinstall the latest available drivers and try again. Contact our support with details about your hardware (including DXDIAG output text file) if you cannot resolve the issue and think you are getting this message in error.
"Loading result failed."
There is something wrong with the result file you tried to load. If you are certain that you have not tampered with the file, contact our support and ensure you can provide the result file for analysis.
"Saving result failed." or "Exporting results to XML failed." (Professional Edition only)
These errors usually indicate that your disk is full or you do not have permission to write to the folder where you are trying to save or export a result. Correct the problem and try again.
"Test run was cancelled by user."
If this occurs and you did not press ESC to cancel the test, it would suggest that the test workload is crashing in code outside the workload (driver or OS code). Ensure video drivers are up to date and close any unneeded background programs, especially programs that may draw overlays (like RTSS.exe or Discord overlay), share / video capture displays (Duet Display, TeamViewer, NVIDIA Share) or are related to virtualization (VMWare). If problem persists, contact our support for assistance to figure out what exactly did cause the run to end prematurely. If possible, include the result file from the failed run which can be found autosaved in Documents/3DMark/ folder.
"Invalid upgrade key"
First ensure that the Advanced Edition key you are inputting is in one of these forms:
3DM-ICF-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY (Base 3DMark key, no Time Spy)
3DM-SPY-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY (Time Spy upgrade key)
3DM-PR-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY (Port Royal upgrade key)
3DM-ICFT-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY (3DMark with Time Spy included)
3DM-ICFTP-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY (3DMark with Time Spy and Port Royal included)
YYYYY sections are alphanumeric strings that contain numbers (0-9) and letters. Note that letters I and O will never show up in this part of the key. Anything resembling an I is number 1 (one) and O is always 0 (zero). Also ensure that all letters you input are capital letters. Note that some Professional Edition and Site License keys may have slightly different format, but same rule applies to the part following the type of the key.
If you still can't get your key to work, please send us an email and include a photo or scan of the key if it was printed on paper and tell us where you got it so we can assist further.
Note that the annual licenses of 3DMark Professional Edition (3DM-TICFT-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY) unlock all tests and features, including Time Spy and Port Royal upgrades. Professional Edition users with a perpetual license (3DM-PICF-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY-YYYYY) will need to purchase an annual license if they want to unlock these additional tests.
"Registering a professional licence requires an internet connection."
Connect your system to internet to resolve this error. If you are using 3DMark Professional Edition in an environment where no network connection is available, contact our support for further assistance.
"This program requires Steam. Please restart Steam client and try again."
This error can come up only with the Steam version of 3DMark. Something is wrong with Steam on your system. For whatever reason, 3DMark cannot start Steam API and communicate with Steam client. If verifying local files does not solve this problem and it happens on all Steam editions (also 32bit), contact our support or use a stand-alone version of 3DMark.
WeGame 上的 3DMark
如果您需要3DMark上的帮助,请通过UL.email@example.com与我们联系。来信时请附上您的系统规格,运行结果文件和详细的问题描述。您可以在以下文件夹路径中找到3DMark 的结果文件:Documents / 3DMark /。
如何在 WeGame 上购买 3DMark?
您有两种方式来购买和使用 WeGame 上的 3DMark:3DMark 体验版和 3DMark 进阶版。
3DMark 体验版
- 包含与其他商店里下载的 3DMark 拥有相同的免费测试。
- 根据需求,可随时运行免费测试,并无任何限制。
- 进阶测试和功能以按次付费的方式提供。
3DMark 进阶版
- 只需一次购买即可解锁我们所有最受欢迎的 3DMark 测试,设置和功能。
- 每项测试的运行次数都没有限制。
您可以使用微信,QQ 或 Q 币在 WeGame 上购买 3DMark。
3DMark 体验版里的单次运行付费是如何在 WeGame 上运行?
购买测试单次运行次数是支付单个基准测试运行的一个便宜且便捷的方式。只有当 3DMark 测试顺利结束并返回分数时,才算作一次有效的运行,这时候才会扣除您帐户内的运行次数。
3DMark 中的每个基准测试都是单独计算的。您可以选择为您的 PC 运行推荐的基准测试或任何可兼容的测试。您可以使用默认设置运行基准测试,或使用自定义设置来改变测试的难易度以进行测试。取消基准测试运行不会消耗您的运行次数。
如何查看我在 WeGame 中剩余的 3DMark 运行次数?
您可以在 3DMark 应用程序的右上角查看剩余的运行次数,也可以在应用程序内购买更多运行次数。
WeGame 上有免费版的 3DMark 吗?
有的。3DMark 体验版包含一些免费测试。您可以无限次地运行这些免费测试。
我可以选择像 Steam 版本那样自行选择安装哪些测试吗?
抱歉,WeGame 版本暂不支持安装或卸载单个测试。
我将结果上传到 3DMark.com 但我在现有帐户中找不到它?
如果您还没有 3dmark.com 帐户,则会在上传第一个结果时创建一个新帐户。您可以使用您的WeGame ID 登录您的帐户。也可以选择添加电子邮件地址和密码作为备用登录方法。
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Today, I am attempting one of a couple of new photo projects. I have discovered Capture Your 365 from Katrina Kennedy. I found this from a discussion in the All Things Photography group on Facebook that I have recently joined. Every day, you can receive a new idea for a photograph. The topic for today:
The Treasures We Leave
What are the valued objects and qualities you will leave behind? What do they mean to you? How will your traditions and history carry on? Put yourself in front of the lens today and show us what has been passed to you or what you plan to pass on to others.
The photo is a close up photo of an antique dresser that belonged to my grandmother. The dresser has been through many years and one of the characteristic things about this dresser is the very loud "squeak" that is made when the drawers open and close. This dresser has help many mementos over the years but is also an anchor to my childhood when I used to spend much time at my grandparents' house near the Coliseum in Greensboro, NC. Just opening the drawers and inhaling the aroma still evokes many memories from that time. I hope to pass this along to one of my daughters as they grow up and start their own families.

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Well, it's been a bit of a team effort so far, so it's only fitting that you guys should be among the first to know: yesterday's blood test was… positive. Yes, I'm shocked too. And so is Llewie. I think we're both still digesting the result. I went into IVF first thing, and Nurse K – another of my favourites – took my blood and merrily sent me on my way with the best of her luck. I squeezed her arm on the way out, saying, "Thank you," and I've just been down to the village to pick up a card for the nursing team, to say the same thing with the help of a box of chocolates. No matter what happens with this pregnancy, whether it holds or doesn't hold, they've been wonderful, and I deeply appreciate the extent to which they've made a fairly harrowing process almost benign. That's not easily done, but their professionalism and care have certainly made everything easier for me. IVF Australia: I'd recommend them to anyone.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. I'll tell you what happened.
So after the test first thing yesterday morning, I wandered around the CBD completing various small tasks while Llew continued on to the office. Then I went to the State Library to work and wait. Unfortunately, I couldn't sit in the Mitchell Library because I needed to be able to answer my phone, and this requirement limited my options to the busy lower-ground thoroughfare linking the two libraries. Noisy, especially once the American girl at the next table took a call. She evidently had a lot to discuss, loudly and at length. I resorted to sticking my fingers in my ears at one point, hunched over my laptop muttering a rich stream of obscenities while trying to edit a page of my MS, but I was only able to hear what she thought of a student's incomplete essay; I gathered pretty early on that she was a tutor, and her self-professed skills in this area kept her happily occupied for upwards of half an hour. I started thinking I wasn't the only one regretting she answered her phone. I thought maybe the person on the other end was kicking walls now too.
Finally it ended, and it wasn't so much longer before Nurse K called. I answered about a tenth of the way into the first ring. My reflexes were Olympian. But I was so aware of Tutor of the Year sitting over there preening about three feet away that the last thing I wanted to do was talk or, worse, betray any emotion whatsoever. So when I said, "Hello?" and Nurse K said, "It's K, Diana – congratulations!" I found myself saying in a small, blank voice "Really? Wow."
The next few minutes are a blur, I don't really remember what was said, then Nurse K furnished me with a couple of dates, including, if you can believe it, a due date. That broke the deadpan gridlock quick sticks – I started shaking and crying, although still desperately trying to sound remote and administrative for the benefit of my hair-twirling neighbour. Then I let it slip to Nurse K that I was all shaky, and she laughed and said, "I bet you are."
So that was that… I packed up my computer and left, calling Llew as I exited the library. He wanted me to wait to tell him in person, so we arranged to meet outside the GPO in Martin Place. He looked nervous and uncertain as he walked toward me, and I'm sure the smile I gave him didn't help matters, being all strange and wobbly (I just came as close as I've ever come, on any computer anywhere, to spilling water right across the desk… my desktop calendar is swimming… what was I saying about reflexes?).
Then he said, "Really? Wow," which made me laugh.
"That's exactly what I said," I told him, watching everything from disbelief to delight pass over his face.
I think we're both in shock. And when we spoke to his mum (they're away down the other end of the country at the moment) as we stood in the warming sun of Martin Place, she sounded like she was in shock, too. Stunned. Somehow I think we erred on the side of disappointment this time, so getting the nod is a loud, jolting thunderclap. Indeed, I'm going to have to start watching myself. All these surprises seem to have addled my brain. In the past 24 hours alone, I've stood in the path of a moving vehicle, rooted stupidly to the spot as vague and unseeing as any village idiot; I've wandered around a supermarket for an unknown length of time before leaving without the very item I went in to buy; I've lost all sense of where I'm putting all my pens (where? Where are they??); I've written 'its' instead of 'it's' in an email; I've lost a train of thought mid-conversation even as I was having it. As I emailed Llew earlier, it's like my mind has left for a long picnic without bothering to invite me along.
It's bizarre, and not a little perturbing. I live so much in my head, and always have done, that this sudden vacancy feels like a kind of homelessness. It's as though my brain's evicted me, very rudely, and I'm not sure it's planning to give back my bond. All very strange, as is the supreme tiredness that has started washing over me nightly at about 7 o'clock. As I confessed to Shuckin' Charlotte this morning, I am making like a dormouse, no longer dancing on tables so much as sleeping beneath them.
For all that, it is far, far too early to tell if this is viable or not, and past experience dictates we temper all the excitement and curiosity with some harsh truths. While of course this result is hugely encouraging, it's simply too early to say if it'll last, so we have no choice but to keep managing our expectations. We shall proceed with cautious optimism. In normal circumstances, there's a good reason why people don't share their happy news too soon – it's too fragile, all of it – but thanks to so many people, this has been a challenge shared, and a hope multiplied, and keeping good news to ourselves is no insurance against bad. So we're still in it, friends, we're in with a chance, and thanks so much for keeping me company on this lurching, turning ride.
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Annah said,
Congratulations!!!!! I have been reading your blog for months and have had my fingers crossed for you the whole time. I fell pregnant a short time ago and in my excitement I said a little (non religious) prayer for you that your dreams would come true too. I knew that I would post my first comment as soon as I read you had a positive result..so yay..the day has come! Some advice would be to deal with the let down of a failed pregnancy when and if it happens….I have officially completed my first trimester and regret the days I worried and held back my excitement "just in case" my pregnancy failed. I say float around unashamedly with pregnancy joy!!!!
Pete said,
Oh my word. Very cautious congratulations to you both. I had a feeling about this one. Yay.
Samantha said,
Hello Di,
Congratulations! Another one of the Holy Grails has been reached. May this one be a stayer.
Warm wishes,
Fugitive Pieces said,
So bloody happy right now. (Managing and tempering the happy, due sober carefulness and restraint being exercised, but puddles of happy keep brimming over.) Go you little disco baby, go!
Jodie said,
Congratulations! Like the commentor at the top I've been following this most recent IVF experience with crossed mental fingers. Good luck and speedy growing to the one inside you.
Grad said,
What happy, happy news! Stay well and snug. Hugs to you and Llewie.
Litlove said,
HUGELY encouraging. Everything crossed for you right now – keep calm and still, ideally! Get Lewie to run around treating you like a princess. That's got to help.


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Here's what he told Interview magazine about the lyrics last year: "It was quite a difficult subject to tackle. I wrote it from their perspective. It was my perspective looking on them to begin with. It's quite a touchy subject, so I wrote it from the perspective of actually being the parent."
Probably the most heart-wrenching thing you will hear this week.
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Carrying on my occasional non-sporting thread, here is another book review...
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"QI: The Book of General Ignorance" - John Lloyd
"Brilliant, although it is a definite consequence that you will be annoying all your nearest and dearest with the range of amazing facts... you'll think its "genius and hilarious!!" and want to share your knowledge - they'll think "oh, not another daft fact!!".
I read it from cover to cover, but it a very easy book to pick up and put down. I have already found myself picking it up again to check some awesome fact that I'm not sure I've remembered completely correctly.
On the whole you are left feeling more like an A. Davies than a S. Fry, but that is really just the whole point. An absolutely fantastic Christmas present for a 'know it all' relative, just make sure they are distant enough that you don't hear the facts bounce back at you... a test of memories could break out that would only end in tears by New Years!"
Basically seeing as I had been waxing lyrical (or not) about the books I'd read on LivingSocial's facebook app I thought may as well re-publish my opinion for anyone who finds my blog.


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One day I was on the couch watching TV when I saw an ad about a show called "EAT THIS". You had to eat something disgusting if your name appears on the screen. Unfortunately, it showed my name. Within 3 seconds, a guy transported to the room I was in and took with him slugs, and snails, and I was forced to eat them or I would die. I think I had to eat the slugs and snails. I just couldn't eat something so disgusting. So I took a deep breath, and ate…
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Evil Granny-100WC- Week 30
"Ok, I may be weird but I certainly am not weird at eating chips on the couch. I am in a weird position but that is because I hate these chips! I am forced to eat these by my Granny but I really don't like them! I just couldn't eat something so GROSS! It tastes like my Granny's old sock. She probably put it in there because she hates me. OK, I've got 26 more chips, I'll just put them in the bin since she is at work. As soon as I put it in the bin she comes out of nowhere and…
Healthy salad 100 WC – week 30
The horrid stench wafted through the kitchen making its disgusting stench make me gag. I just couldn't eat something so putrid as my aunts healthy Sunday salad. But I didn't have a choice. It was that or nothing, and I was famished..I sat down and I got severed my dinner. "Eat up and you will become healthy and have shiny teeth like mine!" my awful aunt screeched, baring her rotten black stumps of teeth, and making me smell her unbearable dragon breath. I stared down at my gruesome meal. I swear I saw something move underneath the slimy layers of unusual vegetables. I was doomed.
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100WC Week 30 – The Disgusting Dinner
My mum called me down for dinner. I ran down the stairs to the dinner dinner table. I actually didn't know what we were going to have for dinner but I know it's going to be yummy. I sat down and in front of me was a silver platter with a lid on it. Then my mum opened the lid… Grosssssss! It looks like puke! But I didn't say a thing to my mum because I knew she tried her best. I just couldn't eat something so disgusting! I took a bite and swallowed it without letting it touch my tongue. It was so bad that I fainted and got very very sick.
Ahhhh!, Raw Chicken!- 100WC Week 30
On my kitchen rules, I was judging, people call me the best chef in the whole world. When I arrived, I walked to the table, I ordered the chicken and the pudding,( I really felt like chicken that night) then and waited and waited. 3 hours later…. I was still waiting for my food, then finally, out they came with my food. I was shocked to see that the chicken, it only looked like it was cooked for 15 mins! It was pink as pink. I just couldn't eat something so raw. I pushed the plate forward my face was pale, and I said….
I Become the Judge of MKR 100WC Week 30
One day I became the judge of MKR. It was my first day on the job everyone was cooking . When I walked in I could smell a beautiful scent. I saw everyone cooking. It was judging time, a girl came up and brought us up her dish. It was made of tempered chocolate, I said "I just couldn't eat something so beautiful". In the end I tasted it it was like chocolate, heaven so good. All the days past by in the end she won and my judging days were over and she took my place..
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So Disgusting! 100WC Week – 30
One sunny day my family was dragging me around to do shopping. Suddenly I found a ice – cream shop so I asked my family "Can I get ice – cream?" my mum and dad said "Yes." so we went in and there was horrible flavours there was: blood ice – cream, metal, and squished eye ball. So I tried the squished eye ball flavour. I just couldn't eat something so disgusting I whispered to my mum "I don't really like this." so we went home at 8:00pm and played soccer until we went to bed.
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The Disgusting Food In The Haunted House
I was walking home from my soccer training, it was extremely exciting.When I got home I heard a extremely annoying sound. I got home and I was so starving. I looked I in the house and there was nobody in their! I opened the door in horror and stepped inside the spooky house. I looked if there was anything on the table and there was! I sat down and started eating it. But I just couldn't eat something so spicy! I ran to the bathroom but suddenly I got a shock and I never woke up again….
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The Food Competition – 100WC Week 30
It was a normal day when Lucxter came back from school tired and grumpy. Lucxter was reading his book, when he finished it a note was at the back saying that you can win 9 million dollars. They entered and they smelt yummy spices of all sorts. They waited for their name to be called out. Their name got called out and Lucxter sat down in front of the bowl of spicy noodles. " I just couldn't eat something so spicy!" The competition started and Lucxter gulped down the noodles……"arghhhhh!"……..
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It took some time to post something, but I was quite busy with my new job and preparing for vacation. At the moment, I'm in Bosnia Herzegovina with my boyfriend. We started our trip in Delft and drove to Bad Griesbach in Germany. The village was quite nice and we stayed in a apartment for just one night. The next day, we drove to Zadar, Croatia. Here we stayed at his aunts apartment, which is super pretty. We had an amazing view from our balcony and the beach was only 5 minutes away. The apartment also has a swimming pool, which was really needed since it was super hot! We stayed 4 days in Zadar and after that we drove to Zenica, Bosnia Herzegovina. This is the place where my boyfriend was born and where he lived the first 3 years of his life.
Before I left for our trip, I bought this adorable flamingo swimsuit at the Primark. Somehow lately I'm kind of obsessed with flamingo's. My boyfriend thinks it's kind of cute (well I hope). He bought me this huge inflatable floating flamingo as a surprise. I have never been sooo happy with something quite silly.


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Sacramento State's eighth annual Arts Resources Faire on Saturday, March 8, will show educators and others how to incorporate the arts into the classroom teaching of other subjects. It will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the University Union. Admission is free.
The event, a project of the College of Education's graduate program of Arts in Education, will feature musical, theatrical and visual arts presentations, and 60 "hands-on" workshops on integrating those arts into classroom curriculum. Vendors will also be on hand to discuss materials and services for arts instruction. Some 700 teachers, student-teachers, administrators, artists and parents are expected to attend.
The event opens with songs by Sacramento State literature for children instructor Francie Dillon and the Woodwind Quintet from the Sacramento Philharmonic performing "Carnival of the Animals." There will also be a Wax Museum of Living History by Creative Connections Academy middle school students, a blues music history presentation called "Blues in the Schools," and the band Horse Sense performing "Songs of the Western Soil."
"It's to show teachers how to teach arts, not just for the arts' sake, but also to help classroom teachers integrate the arts into other subjects across the curriculum," says College of Education Professor Crystal Olson.
"It's a fabulous event," says Julie Giese, a Stockton third-grade teacher. "It teaches that, for example, if a student has a literature assignment, instead of filling out worksheet after worksheet, they may instead make a painting or write a play about it. It makes it more exciting to learn. I know my kids love it."
Some school districts will allow continuing education credit for teachers attending the event, and it is worth one semester unit of academic credit from the Sacramento State College of Continuing Education.
For more information, contact Olson at (916) 278-4237, or email@example.com, or visit http://edweb.csus.edu/events/2008/20080308/index.html. For media assistance, contact Sacramento State's Public Affairs office at (916) 278-6156.


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The Peacock (A. io) must arguably be one of Britain's most attractive butterflies, if not the most.
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Living in an underwater home isn't just for Captain Nemo anymore — it could soon be coming to your neighbourhood, provided you live close to water.
Dubai will soon be home to the world's first submarine suburb, composed of 42 floating, partly underwater homes the developer has dubbed "the Floating Seahorse."
The Kleindienst Group is developing the properties as part of an offshore residential district being built 4 km off the coast of Dubai, known as the Heart of Europe.
Each house has three levels: An upper deck; a main floor with a kitchen and dining area and an open living area; and a submerged part that contains a bedroom and bathroom. Kleindienst aims to have the first residents moving in by the end of 2016.
Since the project launched in March, homebuyer interest has been so intense that the development is almost sold out, with 35 of 42 floating seahorses sold as of earlier this month, according to Dubai newspaper The National.
The developer is now saying he's willing to export the design anywhere. The company has had expressions of interest from as far away as Norway and the Caribbean, Gulf News reports.
"The Floating Seahorse is not restricted to Dubai waters and can be designed and fabricated in Dubai for other resorts and destinations worldwide," CEO Josef Kleindienst said.
Underwater living is slowly going mainstream, and may yet become a common fixture of 21st-century life.
In recent years we've seen the arrival of underwater hotels such as Dubai's Atlantis hotel and underwater nightclubs like the Maldives' Subsix.
But for now, costs are prohibitive. A night at Dubai's underwater Atlantic will run you anywhere from $1,200 Canadian up to $7,000.
And one thing the developer of the "Floating Seahorse" isn't advertising heavily is the price. But it's Dubai, so if you need to ask, you probably can't afford it.
After all, it's one thing to have an underwater home, another thing altogether to have an underwater mortgage.


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Good morning, Rita and thank you for hosting this post at your blog today. We're delighted to have you launch an exciting new type of cover reveal for an upcoming JAFF book that remains to be somewhat of a mystery, which is really quite perfect because the book itself happens to be JAFF mystery based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
If you're wondering how to host a mystery cover reveal I'll let you in on a little secret. There isn't much I can share with you and your readers today about this reveal yet, but I have brought with me some very special clues to whet their appetites a bit and to entice them to join us to solve this mystery regarding not only what this cover looks like, but what the book's title is and who is the author of this book.
Your readers don't have to fret about the author's identity since the author has already published some very popular JAFF stories and we are hoping that between the clues shared today on your blog, along with the clues shared tomorrow at Meredith's blog, Austenesque Reviews, your readers will feel confident taking some educated guesses to solve this mystery.
Are you ready to have a bit of fun with us? Get ready to solve the hottest mystery in JAFF right now…
Clue #1 is this piece of our book's cover…
Hmmmm… who could this be? Any ideas readers?
Clue #2 is this excerpt below to help you start thinking about the book's title and author… Enjoy!
"Have your family always been settled in Meryton, Miss Elizabeth?"
"Yes." She looks up, beaming a smile of unaffected joy. "I was born at Longbourn, Mrs. Hurst, as were all my sisters. The estate has been in my father's family for many generations. And my mother is from a local family as well. Our uncle Philips is a solicitor in Meryton and his practice was my grandfather's before it was his. We are Hertfordshire natives and have many relatives here about."
Mrs. Hurst goes to speak further but her sister chimes in.
"I wonder that your family has not travelled further, Miss Elizabeth. After all, Hertfordshire is close to Town. Yet, Miss Bennet told us that your family rarely travels there except to visit your aunt and uncle in Cheapside. For myself, I could not be away from Town for so long, and it being an easy distance, intend to make the journey frequently."
"Well Miss Bingley, why should you not? If you have the resources and inclination and, as you say, the journey is not a great burden. I hope you will make all the journeys your heart desires, although I do not know how well your fondness for 'stillness' shall stand it."
It is not my practice to show amusement, except when among family and very close friends. But I must confess that the faintest laugh escapes my lips. Miss Bingley does not appear to notice and continues, unabashed.
"Possibly it is a difference in mentality between those who have grown up in the country and those who have been exposed to the sophistications of Town."
Fearful that she is about to make a positively offensive remark, I interject: "I doubt it, Miss Bingley. I grew up in the countryside but have not experienced an unwillingness to travel when the destination is worthy of it. What is more, I fear you overlook one aspect of great importance. That is, the benefits of long standing settlement in one place. My own family have lived in a settled location, away from Town, for many generations. That is to our advantage. I have the reassurance of knowing that I am acquainted with all around me. I know the circumstances of their fathers and grandfathers. I know where they live and where they came from. Their history, and mine, are things of record. In the throng of Town, no man can ever be sure of his neighbour."
It had occurred to me that Meryton, being close to Town and easily accessible on the road north, must be plagued with newcomers and travellers breaking their journeys. The market place, with its coaching inn and busy blacksmith, said as much. The town is a staging post on the way to and from London, a mark upon the road, attracting all manner of men, trouping through. Lambton does not suffer thus, which is as I would have it. As I sip my wine, Miss Elizabeth's voice springs up beside me.
"How very certain you are of your own particular knowledge, Mr. Darcy. But, is it not a false comfort? Is it not, at its heart, unrealistic? Many people find a move away from their place of birth unavoidable. There are the demands of family and enterprise. To say nothing of health and circumstance. Not all may be as fortunate as your family, or mine, and people must find their home where it presents itself. Sometimes, that place, may be a significant distance from where they started."
I tighten my grip upon my glass. My eyes find hers and, for one moment, I am drawn in utterly. She speaks, surely, of marriage. An arch look shoots towards me and her brow rises as she continues.
"It is quite impossible to ever have a full account of the people around us. There shall always be new arrivals, and they must always be welcome."
"Of course, and I would never fail to welcome newcomers to Pemberley. You misunderstand me, Miss Elizabeth. The reward of tradition and stability is knowledge. I know the society of my home. I am sure you know yours."
"Are you? How can you be certain? Does not every soul have its secrets?"
With that, I let the silence last too long and a blanket of discomfort steals around me. Her company holds me fast, like a pin on an entomologist's board. Suddenly aware that the table has fallen silent, and all eyes are fixed upon us, my mind races to find an answer. Even Hurst has paused his drinking. I reply as best I can: "I do not claim to know people's souls, Miss Elizabeth."
We would love for your readers to help us solve this mystery. To do so, they can answer the questions in this JAFF Mystery Cover Reveal Survey today and tomorrow after Meredith reveals the clues we are sharing with her readers too. The winner will be picked from the group of respondents who answer the questions on this survey correctly. The winner will receive a $20.00 Amazon gift card.
Thanks you, Rita, for hosting this launch post. I can't wait to share more clues tomorrow at Austenesque Reviews to help readers solve this great JAFF mystery!
Thank you so much for the opportunity to be part of this Mystery Cover Reveal! I really believe this was a very creative idea and I am having lots of fun putting the post together 😉
I can't wait to share with my readers the beautiful cover of your book and your identity! Also, I'm very curious to see how many of them will guess who you are! I don't want to give any hints, but I think it will not be a difficult task for those who have already read any of your books 😉
Dear readers, I have been very lucky because not only have I seen the cover, but most importantly I've read the book, and I must say you will not guess who did it!!! You will travel with Darcy to unexpected places, you will have some suspects, but I can bet you will not guess what is behind this mystery 🙂
I hope you find this idea as fun as I did and that the excerpt piqued your curiosity. Please do not forget to visit Meredith's post on Austenesque Reviews tomorrow to see a different part of the book cover and obtain more clues to this mystery 🙂
The big reveal will be on Claudine's blog, Just Jane 1813, on the 9th of March, and you will not want to miss that either!!
Happy findings everyone!


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There truly is a light at the end of the tunnel. One more chemo treatment to go! My penultimate treatment started Monday and will end tomorrow! Yay! Then I have will have 7 days of shots and one more treatment. I've been putting off writing this because it does not really seem like the end with the shots ongoing. Also, as you are probably aware, the symptoms do drag on a bit. I know deep inside I am feeling more optimistic though, because I have been sleeping less and getting out a bit more. Except for Sunday. I got up about 7:30 for about an hour and went to take a quick nap before church because I thought I felt well enough, finally, to go again. I woke up a little after noon! I am so looking forward to trading the neuropathy tingling in my fingers for the energy I used to have! I am lucky that seem to be my main symptom, but it makes it hard to type and sometimes hard to drive. I won't need the shots after my last treatment-I promised my oncologist to stay away from sick people instead-so don't cough on me 🙂
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Posted On Thursday, November 21, 2019 By Brandi Brown-Doner
For over half of my pregnancy I experienced symptoms of preeclampsia. My blood pressure runs around 100/60 but throughout my pregnancy was running 120-130/70-80. I was extremely swollen, very sick, spotty vision, and high weight gain between apts. I spoke with my OB office several times and was told not to worry. They finally tested me and my protein level was high but they said every other level was in "normal range" and when they further tested the protein in my urine the dr said it was okay. I found out after my delivery from my primary medical doctor that some of my levels were actually on the higher end of that "normal range". At 38... Read More
Posted On Thursday, November 21, 2019 By Erin Elliott
My husband and I learned we were pregnant with twins on my 30th birthday after our 4th frozen embryo transfer. I had an incredible pregnancy. I felt great, I was fit and healthy and so ready to bring these babies into our lives. On May 1, 2018 at 33 + 6, I noticed some swelling in my legs. I called my OB and she said I was probably dehydrated and should elevate my legs, drink lots of water and come in for my regular 34-week checkup the next day. I woke up feeling OK. It's so strange, I remember everything about that day...I remember texts I sent, work emails and conversations, phone calls, streets signs, I remember the faces of people I saw before my appointment. When I got... Read More
Posted On Monday, October 14, 2019 By
On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, I had a routine OB-GYN appointment. I was pregnant with twins, 1 boy, 1 girl. I was 33 weeks and 6 days. I had normal blood pressure throughout my pregnancy. But that day, it was 140 over 90. I told my doctor we'd better re-test me for pre-eclampsia.That night, we took my blood pressure. It was 165 over 105. Everyone told me it was stress. I was regularly storing urine in a container. The next morning, I had work and called the doctor just to notify them. They said to come in right away.I was given magnesium sulfate in the labor and delivery unit. The hospital workers tried in vain to keep me pregnant. Later that night, my blood... Read More
Posted On Monday, August 19, 2019 By Tiffany Hawley
When our daughter Eva was born three months premature dues to Preeclampsia, we didn't know quite the journey that laid before us. Survival was just one. Living with the health ramifications was just another and at the religious route was yet another out of nowhere turn. But sometimes some of the turns in life are from out of nowhere.
That's why I turned our story into an easy to read book to share our story with the families to help them find hope, healing and encouragement. It's available on Amazon.com with more information on our website, www.ConstellationofHope.com
Posted On Monday, June 24, 2019 By Emily Phillips
My story has a happy ending, and for that I am eternally grateful. My daughter was born in April 2019 at 38 weeks gestation via emergency c section after a very sudden onset of HELLP. This was my second pregnancy, however my first was short lived as I had a miscarriage in week 8 of pregnancy, approximately 3 months before getting pregnant with my daughter. My pregnancy seemed fairly normal from what I had heard about pregnancy. I was exhausted and felt sick from about week 7 through week 12. The second trimester was awesome, and the third was tiring and uncomfortable in the end. I worked out for the entire second trimester and some of the third, and I was... Read More
Posted On Monday, June 24, 2019 By Emily Siemers
My pregnancy was going smoothly. I showed up to my last doctor appointment at 39 weeks and was looking forward to being on the home stretch. My blood pressure was very high but I did not have protein in my urine and no swelling. Women would say how lucky I was that I fit comfortably in my shoes! I had a slight headache which I attributed to not sleeping well. I had my labs done, and was sent home with instructions to call if my condition changed at all. When I got home, my headache got worse to the point where I couldn't look at lights without being nauseous. I was instructed by my doctor to come in the ER and prepare to have my baby. When we arrived, my lab work had come back... Read More
Posted On Monday, June 24, 2019 By Marissa Cepeda
I gave birth Nov.22,2012. I never throughout my 38 weeks of pregnancy had any symptoms of Pre-E, which is what seems rare to me . Anyway, the day I gave birth I could not stop shivering, I was shivering as if It was freezing cold inside (which it was not). I finally gave birth (naturally) and was discharged the day after. Four days after being discharged I had severe swelling on my limbs and genital area, as well as an unbearable headache (which was HBP, but I did not know then), nausea and vomitting. I took a nap thinking that would cure the headache, yet when I woke up at feeding time for my baby, I realized I was so confused and had altered consciousness to the point that I could not... Read More
Posted On Monday, June 24, 2019 By Erin Butrymowicz
I suffered from pregnancy-induced hypertension beginning in the second trimester of my first pregnancy. As a pharmacist, I brushed aside many of aches & pains of pregnancy and attributed the ever-increasing swelling, fatigue and shortness of breath to my 12 hour shifts with little time to sit. My ever-diligent OB and midwife became increasingly concerned about my hypertension and swelling but the first few 24-hour urine screens looked okay and bedrest was not recommended. During my 34th week, I suddenly felt much more fatigued and while I hadn't been able to wear most shoes I owned for months, the swelling was increasing along with my shortness of breath.... Read More
Posted On Monday, June 24, 2019 By Nicholle Godar
In 2015, I was 24 and pregnant with my first baby. The first trimester was filled with nausea and exhaustion, but it all improved in the second trimester. It was an absolutely healthy pregnancy with no warning of what was to come. Around 32-33 weeks, I started getting blinding migraines at work that would force me to lock my office door, turn off the lights, and lay on the floor. I was a migraine sufferer when not pregnant, so my only gripe was that Tylenol did NOTHING to touch the pain. I thought it was normal. Also around that time, I noticed my baby's feet were lodged in my right ribs. Normal, right? I remember constantly pushing on my ribs, trying... Read More
Posted On Friday, June 14, 2019 By Jay Korey
To all the dads out there, you've been through a lot. Our feelings are real. Every one of them is valid and sometimes carrying tremendous weight. Every emotion we cling to, only to fall short with words to describe it. Every time someone asks how your spouse is holding up but fails to acknowledge your struggles. I know it's tough to hold it all together for your family and then yourself. But you do...and man, you're doing a pretty damn good job. I'm Jay Korey and this is my family. For almost nine years, preeclampsia has tormented my family. My anxiety from it creeps up in small waves, occasionally awakening underlying feelings of... Read More
Posted On Monday, June 10, 2019 By Dominek Rainey
My husband and I had planned for our baby girl arrival on 9/15/18 but instead we had her 7/29/18 at 33 weeks. Lets re-wind back to the beginning of the pregnancy. At 4 months pregnant, I started having round ligament pain in my lower abdomen area, at least that's what I was told. The pain became intense further along in pregnancy. I could not walk, turn in the bed or lift up my legs without the aching pain.I had to purchase a belly band and it made it worse. But it wasn't until my 6th month, I started to feel a burning sensation in the middle upper part of my back and had some brown discharge. I immediately called my OBGYN and he told me that the burning... Read More
Posted On Monday, June 10, 2019 By Tomeka Isaac
On May 14, 2018, my husband and I were faced with the news no parent ever wants to hear. Our son, Jace Alexander, had no fetal heartbeat. He was due in exactly one month. As we processed this news, we were dealt with another blow, I was very sick. I was diagnosed with H.E.L.L.P Syndrome (Hemolysis Elevated Liver Enzymes Low Platelet) which is pretty much pre-eclampsia on steroids, and I was dying. I had a hematoma on my liver the size of a soft ball and almost a liter of blood in my abdomen. It would take several surgeries, 7 to be exact, an amazing surgical team and many prayers for me to leave the hospital 45 days later. What we uncovered after, was that our son's death and my... Read More
Posted On Monday, June 10, 2019 By Kim Moss
Our 28 year old daughter Sara was 7.5 months along with her 2nd child. Sara had one older daughter who was 7. Sara was going into her OBGYN every week as scheduled but each time there would be a different doctor examining her. We were all concerned that something just wasn't right.(We have 6 children and 17 grandchildren and we are familiar with what an expectant mother looks like.) Sara's ankles were so swollen it looked as if her skin would burst and tear open at any moment. She would have a headache and she would go in and they would say that she must be dehydrated and... Read More
Posted On Wednesday, June 05, 2019 By Phillip Black
My name is Phillip. I am the father of baby allison, and boyfriend of Wendy, the mother. We went in for a routine appointment, just like any other, but found out that pre-eclampsia has set on in just a days time. When the baby was born, Wendy was on magnesium sulfate to prevent seizures. Well when allison came out, Wendy quickly faded and bled badly while the doctor scooped out the placenta. Her blood pressure tanked to 72/57, and I lost all sense of composure, knowing internally that she wouldn't make it. The nurses escorted me and Allison to the NICU, so that I could calm down and take care of Alli, and so they could stabilize Wendy. When they got her stable, they moved her to the... Read More
Posted On Thursday, May 02, 2019 By Leslie Kinney
Well I got pregnant unexpected at 30 years old. I already had 2 kids prior to this one 9 years ago and I never had pre eclampsia with either one of them. But, I did have high blood pressure before I even became pregnant and when I did my blood pressure stayed at 214/205 every single time, but I was never given anything or put on bed rest or anything. Well at 25 weeks and 3 days along I started feeling discomfort in the top part of my stomach so uncomfortable I couldnt sleep. As the night passed on I woke up at 3:00 a.m with a puddle of blood on the sheets jumped up went to the bathroom and out comes blood clots I start freaking out screaming let's get to the hospital to... Read More
Posted On Thursday, May 02, 2019 By Allie Bryant
A few days before my sons arrival I had a check-up with my ob. Everything was great! No signs of HELLP syndrome. On Monday November 13, 2017 I woke up feeling sicker than usual, honestly didn't think anything about it, that it was just "pregnancy sickness." Nausea, vomiting, blurry vision, headache it just kept getting worse. My boyfriend left to get me some Gatorade when he came back I was unconscious lying in the bed. A few moments after I started seizing. After the seizure he carried me unconscious to the car to drive me to the hospital. It didn't take long for them to diagnose me with a sudden onset of HELLP syndrome. My platelets kept dropping they... Read More
Posted On Friday, April 26, 2019 By Jennifer Jolorte Doro
My son John was due on March 18th but was born on March 5th due to severe signs of liver/kidney failure due to overnight development of HELLP syndrome. I was showing signs of gestational hypertension, BP 135-140/90s but no other signs - no headaches, blurred vision or protein in urine. I was being monitored very closely by my OBs which was great. I started taking Labetalol for a few days, blood panel and a ultrasound one morning to check fluid levels. Everything was checking out great until later that afternoon my blood panel returned and my liver/kidney levels were extremely high. My OB texted me, called my husband and demanded I go to the more medical hospital versus... Read More
Posted On Friday, April 26, 2019 By Payton New
My name is Payton. I am 21. I was 22 weeks and 3 days with Carson. I went in to the hospital with really bad abdominal pain, that was going from my back to my stomach. I arrived at the hospital and I was informed that my blood pressure was 200/108. I also had protein in my urine. This had never been discovered at my appointments with my obgyn. I had to be put on mag and transferred to a hospital the could help me. When I arrived at this hospital they done a ultrasound which is when it was found that my baby was getting little to no blood flow threw the umbilical cord. I was told at first if we waited till I was 23 weeks that they would try to save him. Later on my... Read More
Posted On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 By Shawnterria Tigner
My first experience of this condition I had never heard of it all. I was put on bed rest and was instructed take care at home strategies to keep blood pressure down. My first born was a 30 weeker, 2nd born was 34 weeks, and 26 week twins. They are all girls and all of my symptoms started around 25 weeks and delivered once it turned into eclampsia. I had a placenta abruption with my second birth and I told my nurse something was not right when they decided to induce. She thanked me for saying something because some women just sit there. My twins were just taken after my 24 hour testing as usual and this time no bedrest and they were sent to ICU and not breathing on there... Read More
Posted On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 By Julia Thorn
My first child was stillborn at 23 weeks due to severe preeclampsia. Maybe everything started around 20 weeks. I was waking up from sleep with pain under my ribs, nausea, and vomiting. It seemed a bit late for morning sickness. I saw my OB, who recommended Vitamin B6 and Unisom; I started feeling better. My blood pressure at that visit was 126/88. At exactly 22 weeks my feet started to swell. My husband, friends, and I joked about my "cankles." All part of normal pregnancy, I thought; although it seemed a bit early for such noticeable swelling. The anatomy scan happened at 22 weeks and 4 days. My husband and I were excited to find out the sex--it's a... Read More
Faces of Preeclampsia
Our 28 year old daughter Sara was 7.5 months along with her 2nd child. Sara had one older daughter... Read More


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SARAJEVO: The Croatian government will buy Hungarian oil group MOL's 49 percent stake in oil and gas company INA, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Saturday.
"The Hungarian side has been informed about this decision," Plenkovic told reporters. The acquisition will not harm Croatia's public debt, he said, without giving further details.
INA's shares last traded at 2,925 Croatian kuna ($405.26), which puts the value of MOL's stake in INA at around 14.5 billion Croatian kuna ($2.01 billion).
MOL and INA have locked horns for years over control of the Croatian oil company. MOL has certain management control at INA under an agreement with the Croatian state, which holds 45 percent of INA.
Plenkovic said the buy-out was in Croatia's best interests after a United Nations arbitration commission ruled that evidence presented by Croatia in a lawsuit against MOL were insufficient to prove that certain contracts made in 2009 were the result of corrupt activities.
He gave no further details of the lawsuit or the ruling, or why it had prompted Croatia's decision to buy MOL's INA stake.
MOL had indicated it was willing to consider selling its stake in INA if the two were unable to resolve issues around future cooperation. ($1 = 7.2175 kuna)


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Every parent worries that their child will become a victim of bullying in school. This is because at some point, most children will be bullied. Some are bullied chronically. For every child who is bullied, there is a parent who is struggling to help them and who is desparate for help.
Bullying is a problem that can be solved with education. Most adults, and therefore most parents, were never taught how to effectively deal with bullies so they don't know how to help their children and they are left feeling helpless and their children are left struggling.
The good news is that teaching kids how to get bullies to leave them alone is actually quite simple. The problem is that most parents don't know what these skills are, let alone, how to teach them.
If you feel like me, that bullying is something we should be actively doing something about and trying to prevent, then together we need to make a serious effort to educate parents and empower them.
When a parent learns why bullies bully and how to control the bullying dynamic, they can then teach these skills to their children.
It is critical that parents be taught this information. Not only are they responsible for teaching their kids these important skills, children need their parents support and help to navigate these difficult relationships.
Getting a bully to stop is hard. It takes time and there are no quick fixes. Parents need to encouage their child through the learning process so that they can find the courage to stand up and defend themselves.
If your ideal customer is a parent of a young child or a middle schooler, my book, The Bully Vaccine would make an excellent gift or incentive. It is an wonderful way to give your customers a gift they actually need and that will make a difference in their lives and in the lives of their children.
Please consider purchasing multiple copies of The Bully Vaccine to give away as a customer incentive or free gift. You can help your customers, create good will and do something positive to help children who are suffering at the hands of a bully all at the same time.
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This book has the potential to help a lot of people! The problem is it won't help anyone if they don't have access to it.
If you decide to give away my book to your customers. Please encourage them to read it, learn from it, teach it to their children and then pass it on by donating their copy to their local public or school library as a way to pay this knowledge forward so it can benefit someone else.
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