The merging of the "with BenchMate" categories with the original benchmarks is arriving its final stage. Thanks to the hard work of Tim (HWBOT programmer) and Mat (BenchMate) users will soon be able to either manually submit (usually for older hardware platforms and Operating Systems before windows7) or to enjoy the automated submission functionality straight from the BenchMate wrapper.  Ofcourse this only counts for the benchmarks supported by BenchMate.

During the weekend Tim will prepare the production page, as similar changes were positively evaluated on the UAT Test server.

Minor changes to the benchmark submission field will become visible like shown below:




What does this mean for the end user?

Firstly: It will take a few days before all the rankings and hardware/benchmark charts are correctly updated. We don't want to force a full recalculation as it will slow down the site and we still have 3 major competitions ongoing. So it will be done in little steps during the weekend. So it might be that your points/rankings, hardware rankings are all over the place.

The recalculations of all hardware are scheduled for  Monday, the 22nd of August.

Secondly we will only allow the latest BenchMate version 10.11.2 or newer to be used from now on. So all the concerned Benchmark rules will have to be adapted. time to upgrade your benching OSses!

This merging will be one of the last big changes that will be made to the old code of HWBOT.

Next up is to move all HWBOT servers to the more powerfull  hosting at Hetzner, we are targetting end of August to have this completed.