⚙️ GearBench v1.6-beta
This update focuses on usability, reliability, and overall user experience while keeping the benchmark engine unchanged.
🔍 Changes
-Added offline mode with automatic fallback. GearBench now continues to operate normally even when no internet connection is available.
- Added an Online / Offline status indicator.
- Added automatic update checking (enabled by default).
- Added a Check now button to manually check for new GearBench releases.
- Added Auto Upload Results setting.
- Added a manual Upload Result button when automatic uploads are disabled.
- Spider Chart latency visualization has been inverted so that lower latency is now represented as a better (outer) score, matching the behavior of bandwidth metrics.
- Added a benchmark activity indicator with progress information while tests are running.
- Settings are now automatically saved to GearBench.config.json and restored on startup.
- Added version information to the main window and settings window.
- Improved decimal formatting consistency by using invariant formatting for benchmark values.
- Replaced the .zip with a Windows installer with automatic uninstall support, making installation and future updates easie
📊 Result
This release improves the overall usability of GearBench, provides a better offline experience, simplifies result uploads, and makes latency visualization more intuitive while preserving benchmark consistency.
📝 Developer Note
Huge thanks to everyone on the Overclock.net community for testing GearBench, reporting bugs, and suggesting improvements.
Many of the features in this update including offline support, upload controls, activity feedback, and UI improvements—were implemented directly from community feedback.
Your continued testing helps make GearBench a more reliable and accurate memory benchmark. More improvements are already in development.