So when is exactly the next Lunar New Year for the "Shoot for the Moon" Achievement ?!


a short google say this


So you See the next Chance to get the Achievement is Tuesday, Feb. 17 2026

there The Year of the Horse will start and only on this day you can try to get an valid score for an Benchmark with result "Great" or better for your Achievement.

Note: a "greater" score always depends on your system and an identical system from others. So your score has to be better than the average of everyone else with the same system.

Good luck to everyone and save the Date
*hint* as far as i know you CAN´T Manipulate the system Time for this achievement because it will always Sync with the Developers Homepage so no chance to cheat this in any way :(

HINT: don't use msi Afterburner / rivatuner or similar program to track your stats. This will end in an "non valid score" and give you no Achievements

Result is Good / Great / Excellent / Legendary achievement FAQ.
Result screen for normal non-stress test runs shows how good your score is compared to all other users with the same CPU and GPU.

Legendary score is in the top 1% of results
Excellent score is in the top 15% of results
Great score is in the top 30% of results
Good score is in the top 60% of results

- in comparison to results made with same CPU and GPU.

Edit: Important: This is not the same as online result page showing your score placement vs all 3DMark results ever submitted with that test. Those values are often 95%+ for modern gaming PCs as that indicator compares against all 3DMark results ever submitted, including random office PCs or gaming PCs from 5+ years ago, so surprisingly any modern GPU tends to be at the very top

The achievements do not use that value. They instead compare your result vs. all results from users with same CPU, GPU and number of GPUs (in case of SLI/Crossfire). You can use 3DMark search to see the score distribution for your hardware combination by just going to www.3dmark.com/search and choosing the test you are going to run and your CPU & GPU model and the graphs in the top show score distribution and average score for the combination. Beating that average should comfortably get "Good" rating.

This was already added a while ago to the UI and the new achievements just piggyback to this. A qualifying score must be run at default settings.

And yes, the top results tend to be from overclocked systems. A stock system with good cooling and no background tasks to slow things down usually hits a "Good" score, but the margins in the most common results are fairly small especially as most modern GPUs are very sensitive to temperatures. Just manually setting GPU fans to run at 100% during a test can easily be seen in the score.

And at least right now higher achievement will not trigger the lower ones, by design. If your OC is "too good" and you want the lower ones, you get to do some tweaking to hit the lower score ranges for the lesser versions

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