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@ 2010/10/21With the new site, Futuremark is also officially ending online service support for legacy benchmarks. This means that the new service will not support 3DMark 2001 SE, 3DMark03, 3DMark05, PCMark 2002 or PCMark04. Nothing prevents you from running these benchmarks even after the online support is retired and you still do get a result as all legacy benchmarks display the result without submit but you will no longer be able to submit or compare scores with these benchmarks and existing results from these benchmarks will no longer be accessible.
In practice, this means that if you have benchmark data from these old benchmarks that you wish to retain, you will have, from the date of this announcement,at least four weeks in which to copy down any results submitted with these legacy benchmarks from the existing ORB. However, after this grace period, access to legacy data through Futuremark online services will be retired. Note that the legacy data won't be lost forever - just the method of accessing it. Plan is to also provide a way to retrieve your old, legacy benchmark data as a downloadable file in XML format at a later date.
In practice, this means that if you have benchmark data from these old benchmarks that you wish to retain, you will have, from the date of this announcement,at least four weeks in which to copy down any results submitted with these legacy benchmarks from the existing ORB. However, after this grace period, access to legacy data through Futuremark online services will be retired. Note that the legacy data won't be lost forever - just the method of accessing it. Plan is to also provide a way to retrieve your old, legacy benchmark data as a downloadable file in XML format at a later date.
