wissper

Am I the only one that's wondering why there are benchmarks in a 2015 competition that require the use of an operating system that hasn't had mainstream support by the developer since 2009 in the case of XP or 2012 for Vista, on hardware that's 3 generations more advanced than what was available when the newest O/S was discontinued (3rd generation Intel Core CPUs were released in 2012, but 1st generation Core CPUs were the primary market share at that time)? Essentially every component in a PC has changed dramatically in that time, and there have been 3 new operating systems released to take advantage of those advances. It seems logical that the benchmarks aren't going to take advantage of the hardware if they're run on o/s platforms that were developed before the hardware was in existence. If your O/S isn't supported by the benchmark for this competition it should say so in a popup before you waste time running it in the first place. Just my 2 cents.