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3DMark %100 Steam Achievement Guide
By felk
A guide to help you get all the achievements for 3DMark
   
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Guide Index
Overview
Intro 
Future Proof 
Future Proof II 
Hydra 
Free PC Upgrade 
Red Hot 
4K Forever 
Lightspeed 
It’s over 9000!!! 
It's Over 9000, Again! 
No Worries 
Rock Solid 
What's the Rush? 
Good 
Great 
Excellent 
Legendary 
Cool under pressure 
No Sweat 
Keep a Cool Head 
Night Owl 
New Year's Resolution 
Sun and Moon 
Shoot for the Moon 
Catchy Tune 
Interactive 
Steel Explorer 
Customize It 
Integration Nation 
Mystery Machine 
Tips and Tricks 
Outro 
Comments
Intro
Welcome to my guide, this is a update to a guide by Papa Sans that was a update to a guide by Darguss

Most of this guide is the other guides paraphrased and my own knowledge included

I leave some tips at the end so feel free to read them before you start
Future Proof
"Windows 10? Check. DirectX 12? Check. Time Spy? Check. Congratulations. You're ready!"

Have Windows 10 or 11, DirectX12 compatible GPU (GT 640 and higher or pretty much any GPU after 2012) and then run Time Spy.
Future Proof II
"Run all four DirectX 12 Ultimate feature tests."

You'll need DirectX 12 Ultimate compatible card (at least a NVIDIA RTX 2000 Series or a AMD RX 6000 series but anything newer will work!).

Then just run all the benchmarks that are under the DirectX 12 Ultimate section.
Hydra
"Submit a score from a system with 12 or more logical CPU cores."

Run any benchmark with a CPU that shows in task manager 12 "Logical processors" or more

An i5-10400F or a Ryzen 5 3600 is the minimum for this achievement

The only way to get this achievement is to buy a better CPU or run 3DMark on someone else computer that that the required amount of logical processors
Free PC Upgrade
"Submit a score that is at least 10% higher than your last score."

Underclock your GPU by a bit then run a DirectX11 benchmark, after it is finished restore your GPU to your normal clock steam and run the same benchmark again.
Red Hot
"Can you handle Fire Strike Extreme?"

Just run Fire Strike Extreme, unless you have a bad or old PC you should easily get and get a passing score, If you do not pass go to the tips and tricks section to find out how to get the best performance.
4K Forever
"Run Time Spy Extreme or Fire Strike Ultra."

Run Time Spy Extreme, Fire Strike Ultra or any other 4K test, results don't matter here.
Lightspeed
"Run Port Royal with an average frame rate greater than 40 FPS."

Just run a Port Royal stress test and get a average of 40FPS or higher, If you do not get a high enough average fps go to the tips and tricks section to find out how to get the best performance.
It’s over 9000!!!
"Fire Strike over 9000? There's no way that could be right."

Just run the regular Fire Strike, unless you have a bad or old PC you should easily get 9000+, If you get below 9000 go to the tips and tricks section to find out how to get the best performance.
It's Over 9000, Again!
"Time Spy over 9000? There's (still) no way that could be right."

Just run the regular Time Spy, Although Time Spy is way more demanding if you have a good RTX 2000, or a RTX 3000 Series GPU you should be able to reach the score of 9000+, If you get below 9000 go to the tips and tricks section to find out how to get the best performance.
No Worries
"Pass a DirectX 12 stress test."

Just run a DirectX 12 STRESS test. Your FPS doesn't matter for this achievement and only lost frames are the issue. If you are getting lost frames underclock your GPU and run TimeSpy STRESS test until you score %97
Rock Solid
"Score 99% or more in the Time Spy Stress Test."

This should be really easy if your not CPU or RAM bottlenecked, Your FPS doesn't matter for this achievement and only lost frames are the issue. If you are getting lost frames underclock your GPU and run TimeSpy STRESS test until you score %99
What's the Rush?
"If your Time Spy frame rate is less than 5 FPS, just relax and enjoy the details."

Underclock the CPU and GPU as needed, but you underclock the CPU to about 1.0 Ghz usually does the trick to bottleneck everything.
Good
"Achieve a good score for your hardware."

Run the Wildlife benchmark and get between 33000 and 34000, unless you have a bad or old PC you should easily get 33000+, If you get below 33000 go to the tips and tricks section to find out how to get the best performance; If you get over 34000 underclock the CPU and GPU as needed, but underclocking the CPU usually does the trick to bottleneck everything.
Great
"Achieve a great score for your hardware."

Run the Wildlife benchmark and get between 34000 and 37000, unless you have a bad or old PC you should easily get 34000+, If you get below 34000 go to the tips and tricks section to find out how to get the best performance; If you get over 37000 underclock the CPU and GPU as needed, but underclocking the CPU usually does the trick to bottleneck everything.
Excellent
"Achieve an excellent score for your hardware."

Run the Wildlife benchmark and get between 39000 and 41000, unless you have a bad or old PC you should easily get 39000+, If you get below 39000 go to the tips and tricks section to find out how to get the best performance; If you get over 41000 underclock the CPU and GPU as needed, but underclocking the CPU usually does the trick to bottleneck everything.
Legendary
"Achieve a legendary score for your hardware."

Run the Wildlife benchmark and get above 41000, unless you have a bad or old PC you should easily get 41000+, If you get below 41000 go to the tips and tricks section to find out how to get the best performance.
Cool under pressure
"Keep the GPU temperature below 55 °C during a DirectX 12 benchmark run."

To get this achievement you can undervolt or underclock your GPU until your temperatures stay below 55 °C, you can also turn your fan speed to %100 to help out. Once you do that just run a DirectX 12 benchmark (e.g. TimeSpy)
No Sweat
"Keep the GPU temperature under 65 °C for the duration of a DirectX 12 stress test."

To get this achievement you can undervolt or underclock your GPU until your temperatures stay below 65 °C, you can also turn your fan speed to %100 to help out. Once you do that just run a DirectX 12 STRESS test (e.g. TimeSpy)
Keep a Cool Head
"Keep the CPU temperature below 55 °C during a CPU Profile benchmark run."

To get this achievement you can disable cores, undervolt or underclock your CPU until your temperatures stay below 55 °C, you can also turn your fan speed to %100 to help out. Once you do that just run the CPU Profile test
Night Owl
"Run a benchmark between 00:00 and 06:00."

Run a benchmark between 00:00 and 06:00 or change the time to between those two times. When it is time run any benchmark
New Year's Resolution
"Run Time Spy Extreme on January 1.."

Run Time Spy Extreme on January 1 or change the day to to January and then run Time Spy.
Sun and Moon
"Run Steel Nomad during the day (06:00 - 18:00), and Steel Nomad Light during the night (18:00 - 06:00)."

Run Steel Nomad during the day (06:00 - 18:00), and Steel Nomad Light during the night (18:00 - 06:00) or change the time to between those two times and run the respective benchmarks. When it is time run the respected benchmark
Shoot for the Moon
"Achieve a great score or better for your hardware during Lunar New Year."

Run the Wildlife benchmark and get above 34000 ON LUNAR NEW YEAR[www.google.com], unless you have a bad or old PC you should easily get 34000+, If you get below 34000 go to the tips and tricks section to find out how to get the best performance.
Catchy Tune
"Deliver a result of Steel Nomad with audio."

Ensure that Enable Sound is checked because by Default audio audio is turned off, then just do the benchmark.
Interactive
"Spend five minutes in interactive mode in a feature test."

Open any interactive mode (for example Steel Nomad in explorer mode) and just stay in there for 5 minutes
Steel Explorer
"Use Explorer Mode to discover all secret areas in the world of Steel Nomad with all its hidden treasures."

You can use these guides below

https://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3251930592
Customize It
"Run a DirectX 12 benchmark with custom settings."

When trying to run a DirectX 12 benchmark (for example TimeSpy) and change a setting like the resolution and then run it.
Integration Nation
"Run a DirectX 12 graphics benchmark using integrated graphics."

Run a DirectX 12 benchmark "for example Time Spy" with integrated graphics. If you don't have integrated graphics find someone who has or order a CPU that does have it and return it after the test.
Mystery Machine
"Submit a result using new hardware that isn't recognised by 3DMark."

The goal here is to submit a result for a new piece of hardware, you can buy a engineering sample from a auction site and use that, you can use the latest CPU/GPU that just came out, an obscure CPU/GPU that nobody ever cared to try or you can just get the achievement with these glitches below.

If you want to glitch the achievement click here for the easy guide

If the guide above doesn't work click here for the alternative guide
Tips and Tricks
For a better score here is some guy that is pretty smart and has shared his wisdom: https://www.reddit.com/r/LenovoLegion/comments/10awo1w/comment/j46vv93
Outro
Thank you for reading my guide, if you found it useful let me know by giving me a thumbs up

Any issue with my guide or anything you would like me to add? Feel free to leave a comment and ill update the guide

6 Comments
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felk  [author] 30 May @ 12:12pm 
FadesHandle, if it dosen't work try and do it normally. It's not the hardest achivement
FadesHandle 30 May @ 11:56am 
I tried doing sun and moon following utc+0 time and it does not work. I tried my timezone as well and it doesnt work. I made sure the results were valid and clicked view result online to make sure the server registers it. I ran benchmark and not stress test also. Any tips?
м 24 Apr @ 12:00am 
The Youtube Link for Steel Explorer doesn't work anymore
Giovani_Fert 22 Apr @ 3:41pm 
very good
felk  [author] 20 Apr @ 2:18am 
LemmeGetAnUhhhhWhat, you need to get between those scores. If you get higher you only get the highest achievement. Also you might need to submit the benchmark or use another one
LemmeGetAnUhhhhWhat 19 Apr @ 5:49pm 
Great, Excellent, Legendary Achievement not popping doing any of the benchmarks. When I do Wildlife bench I get over 100k.