Blandt nye features kan nævnes :
KEY FEATURES OF 3DMARK2001 SE:
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[li]Support for Microsoft DirectX®8.1[/li]
[li]A new DirectX8.1 feature test showing Vertex Shaders & Pixel Shaders 1.4[/li]
[li]Fully tested and supported under Windows® XP. [/li]
[li]Featuring 3 game tests plus a 4th game test using DirectX®8.0 hardware features.[/li]
[li]Directx8.0 feature tests showing Vertex Shaders, Pixel Shaders 1.1 and Point Sprites.[/li]
[li]DOT3 and Environment Mapped Bump Mapping tests. [/li]
[li]Support for Full Scene Anti-aliasing and Texture Compression. [/li]
[li]Optimizations for the latest Intel® and AMD® processors. [/li]
[li]Two game tests use Ipion real-time physics by [url=”http://www.havok.com/”]Havok[/url]. [/li]
[li]An awesome demo which features an original soundtrack. [/li]
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Til Kyro folket, så skulle der også være en lille forøgelse i scoren og den skulle også kunne køre DXT1 textures.