With subsequent testing we will demonstrate that the D3S solution effectively addresses the problem by removing the spurious local minima associated with the use of D3 in all the test cases where we identified this issue. The next question is whether D3S accomplished this objective without significant drawbacks in terms of reduced accuracy. We address this question via extensive benchmarking, first using the large MGCDB84 dataset for small and medium-sized molecules, and then the L7 dataset for non-covalent interactions in larger molecules up to 112 atoms. A range of 11 different dispersion-corrected functionals are assessed with the conclusion that in all cases, use of the D3S modification maintains the accuracy of the D3 methods in the sense that their deviations are typically on the order of 0.1 kJ/mol, which is far less than the inherent errors in D3 dispersion. A corollary is that the agreement between computed and experimentally obtained C6 molecular coefficients are comparable between D3S and D3 schemes.