3D test cache issues

[Ryan5123]

Hi,

I'm having some issues running Passmark 11 from a USB stick. I have a script that copies over the Passmark files from a USB stick to C:\setup\apps\PerformanceTest11 and then runs the tests.

Everything but the GPU Compute test will complete as normal but I don't get a 3D score because the GPU Compute will exit after the first test.

I turned on debug mode and re-ran and it looks like Passmark is trying to go to the default location on the C drive to access the 3D cache file when it is actually saving the files in the correct location (in this case C:\setup\apps\PerformanceTest11\AppData\Chart Data\).

Here is a section of the PerfTestLog.txt log -

77.594s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
77.594s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\g3dRating\all.xml
77.594s - GetChartDataFromCache - failed to open cache file
77.609s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
77.609s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\G3D_DIRECTCOMPUTE\all.xml
77.609s - GetChartDataFromCache - failed to open cache file
77.609s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
77.609s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\G3D_DIRECTCOMPUTE\all.xml
77.609s - GetChartDataFromCache - failed to open cache file
77.609s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
77.625s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
77.625s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\g3dRating\all.xml
77.625s - GetChartDataFromCache - failed to open cache file
77.625s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
77.625s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\g3dRating\all.xml
77.625s - GetChartDataFromCache - failed to open cache file
77.625s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
77.625s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
77.625s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\G3D_DIRECTCOMPUTE\all.xml
77.625s - GetChartDataFromCache - failed to open cache file
77.625s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
77.625s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\G3D_DIRECTCOMPUTE\all.xml
77.625s - GetChartDataFromCache - failed to open cache file


I copied the g3dRating & G3D_DIRECTCOMPUTE folders over from "C:\setup\apps\PerformanceTest11\AppData\Chart Data" to "C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Cha rt Data" and now I get these errors instead -

72.156s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
72.156s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\g3dRating\all.xml
72.156s - GetChartDataFromCache - llSecsDiff > ALL_CHART_DATA_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECS - failed
72.203s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
72.203s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\G3D_DIRECTCOMPUTE\all.xml
72.203s - GetChartDataFromCache - llSecsDiff > ALL_CHART_DATA_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECS - failed
72.219s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
72.219s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\G3D_DIRECTCOMPUTE\all.xml
72.219s - GetChartDataFromCache - llSecsDiff > ALL_CHART_DATA_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECS - failed
72.219s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
72.235s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
72.235s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\g3dRating\all.xml
72.235s - GetChartDataFromCache - llSecsDiff > ALL_CHART_DATA_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECS - failed
72.250s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
72.250s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\g3dRating\all.xml
72.250s - GetChartDataFromCache - llSecsDiff > ALL_CHART_DATA_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECS - failed
72.250s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
72.281s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
72.281s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\G3D_DIRECTCOMPUTE\all.xml
72.281s - GetChartDataFromCache - llSecsDiff > ALL_CHART_DATA_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECS - failed
72.297s - GetCommonApplicationDataFolder: C:\ProgramData
72.297s - GetChartDataFromCache - C:\ProgramData\PassMark\PerformanceTest11\Chart Data\G3D_DIRECTCOMPUTE\all.xml
72.297s - GetChartDataFromCache - llSecsDiff > ALL_CHART_DATA_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECS - failed

[David (PassMark)]

We support installation of PerformanceTest to a hard drive.
We also support a portable installation on a USB drive.

But if you want to home brew some custom hybrid install, then we don't support it.
If you want it installed on C:\ drive just do a normal install to C:\Program Files\.

My guess at what is happening is that the code detects if it is in a portable scenario by looking at the drive type. If it is running from a removable drive, it looks for all the files on that removable drive. If it detects it is running from a fixed HDD then it looks for the files in their normal install locations. I would need to spend a couple of hours look through the code and testing to be sure, which we don't plan on doing unless there was significant customer demand for some 3rd install option.