Outline of Achievements (2023)

Short guide to explaining some of the achievements.

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Greetings,

This guide is to describe the achievements in more detail which may include ways to earn the achievement. I test out these achievements on my own however I may not be able to follow-up on all of them.

Bugged achievements I will try to make a note of. Removed achievements I will leave for historical purposes which I will also make a note of.

Thank you for visiting this guide and feel free to comment.

From someone in the comments, if you have issues you can send a ticket:
https://support.benchmarks.ul.com/support/tickets/new

Achievements

Red Hot
Can you handle Fire Strike Extreme?

Completing Fire Strike Extreme should be enough to get this one.

It’s over 9000!!!
Fire Strike over 9000? There's no way that could be right.

Fire Strike (normal) score of over 9000. Multi-GPU setup for low/mid-range cards.

Free PC Upgrade
Submit a score that is at least 10% higher than your last score.

Running off of integrated graphics, or limiting CPU before a normal run is enough for this one.

Hydra
Submit a score from a system with 12 or more logical CPU cores.

Hyper-threaded cores count. If task manager reads 12 then this is attainable.

Brains
With your CPU you could do anything. That GPU is just holding you back.

Integrated Graphics or heavily under-clocked.

Mystery Machine
Submit a result using new hardware that isn't recognized by 3DMark.

Brand new hardware usually is needed for this. However it's also possible to obtain if the system scan gets confused.

OC Madness
Only experts should try to push their CPU more than 50% over stock.

As it reads, MORE than 50% over stock (base) clocks. If you can limit the the cores to one you can generally get better overclocks.

Moar Graphics Plox
Submit a score from a system with 3 or more GPUs.

A 3(4) way SLI/Crossfire is needed.

You Devil
Submit a score that contains 666.

As long as the score has 666 in it.

Leet Treat
Submit a score that contains the sequence 1337.

As long as the score has 1337 in it.

Brawn
Your GPU is ready to rumble, but your CPU doesn't want to play.

A strong GPU with a weak CPU. Underclock your CPU or limit the cores 3Dmark uses.

Updates (Time Spy and DirectX 12)

Future Proof
Windows 10? Check. DirectX 12? Check. Time Spy? Check. Congratulations. You're ready!

A Windows 10 OS, DirectX 12 compatible GPU and Time Spy benchmark. Complete the Time Spy benchmark to obtain.

What's the Rush?
If your Time Spy frame rate is less than 5 FPS, just relax and enjoy the details.

Heavily under-clock your GPU for this one. Goal is 5fps in the GPU benchmarks.

It's Over 9000, Again!
Time Spy over 9000? There's (still) no way that could be right.

Pass Time Spy benchmark with a score of over 9000.

Rock Solid
Score 99% or more in the Time Spy Stress Test.

This test checks for clock stability among other things. Run the Time Spy *Stress* Test and score 99%.

Updates Part 2

**About the "scores": Run Time Spy, Time Spy Extreme, Port Royal, Night Raid, Wild Life, Wild Life Extreme. Your score is compared to the other scores in their database. **

Good
Achieve a good score for your hardware.

Great
Achieve a great score for your hardware.

Excellent
Achieve an excellent score for your hardware.

Legendary
Achieve a legendary score for your hardware.

Shoot for the Moon
Achieve a legendary score for your hardware during Lunar New Year.
Lunar New Year is: Sat, Feb 10, 2024[www.google.com]

New Year's Resolution
Run Time Spy Extreme on January 1.
I believe the time is in UTC. Adjust running this accordingly.

Night Owl
Run a benchmark between 00:00 and 06:00.

4K Forever
Run Time Spy Extreme or Fire Strike Ultra.

Customize It
Run a DirectX 12 benchmark with custom settings.

No Worries
Pass a DirectX 12 stress test.

Future Proof II
Run all four DirectX 12 Ultimate feature tests.
You can use the filter at the top to identify the Ultimate tests.

Lightspeed
Run Port Royal with an average frame rate greater than 40 FPS.

Integration Nation
Run a DirectX 12 graphics benchmark using integrated graphics.

Interactive
Spend five minutes in interactive mode in a feature test.
This one appears bugged. Does not trigger with the VRS feature test.

No Sweat
Keep the GPU temperature under 65 °C for the duration of a DirectX 12 stress test.
A DirectX12 iGPU will make this an easy achievement.

Cool under pressure
Keep the GPU temperature below 55 °C during a DirectX 12 benchmark run.
A DirectX12 iGPU will make this an easy achievement.

Keep a Cool Head
Keep the CPU temperature below 55 °C during a CPU Profile benchmark run.
Disabling CPU core usage will make this an easier achievement.

Checking Achievements

You can check individual runs for achievements by clicking "Show Results Details". This is on the page where you submit and compare an online result.

The End

That's all folks.

[Phantom-San]

No, you can't get "New Year's Resolution" and "Shoot for the Moon" by changing the dates. If i'm not mistaken, it use the server time and adapts it to your timezone.

Sun and Moon

Be aware that you need to run Steel Nomad Light during night, and not just run steel nomad.

The user rgns02 explains it better a few comments bellow.

[rgns02]

Apart from these, the "Interactive" achievement was also obtained in Steel Nomad's Explorer Mode.
One loop is 1 minute, so I was able to get it by pressing "Esc" after 5 loops.
Depending on the language, "Run Interactive Mode" may be displayed instead of "Run Explorer Mode", but the meaning is the same.

...By the way, can "New Year's Resolution" and "Shoot for the Moon" be achieved by changing the date on Windows?

[rgns02]

(Google translation)
In Steel Nomad, due to server overload (?), you may not be able to obtain achievements even if you meet the conditions.
Cannot be obtained if the resulting warning display is anything other than green
If you load the resulting file after a while, it may turn green.
I was able to obtain the Steel Nomad achievement, so I will describe the conditions here.

Catchy Tune
Run the benchmark after enabling benchmark sound (Enable Sound → Yes)

Steel Explorer
Find 3 hidden rooms in Explorer Mode
When "Secret rooms found :3/3" is displayed on the screen, press "Esc" to exit.

Sun and Moon
(06:00 - 18:00) Execute Steel Nomad benchmark
(18:00 - 06:00) Execute Steel Nomad Light benchmark
I don't know the time zone standards

[Fastor]

Bumping this since the day is near!

[Darguss]

Reminder that Lunar New Year is: Feb 10.

[Noble]

@AudioSky. I did it like a couple years ago. Sorry ot hear it didn't work yet. Maybe it'll show up like there is a delay

[ZeroConditio]

@AudioSky It worked for me yesterday, so maybe test was invalid or just timezone difference

[AudioSky]

New Year's Resolution
Run Time Spy Extreme on January 1.

Achievement not working

[Feng with bunny ears]

For mystery machine, it is also very ideal to unlock by engineering sample of CPUs (not qualification samples)

[mjozerov]

Does future proof work on windows 11 or do I have to downgrade my pc back to windows 10?