I hadn't expected to release another update so soon, but GfxBench2D version 2.6 had one puzzling problem: the altivec based copy routines actually caused a significant drop in performance on G4 AmigaOne-XEs (A1-XEs). What made this puzzling, was that the altivec copy routines improved performance on G4 Pegasos II machines. Both of these machines use MPC74xx CPUs, so what could be causing this strange behaviour? This was a bit of a mystery.

Both the AmigaOS and Windows versions of GfxBench2D clients have been updated. There was a minor issue in which a graphics card whose name contains particular characters would fail to save. The reason is that files cannot use certain characters, and so attempting to save a file with say, a slash '/' character (which is used to separate directories in a path) would not work. This issue has now been fixed.