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Carmack On ATI's Driver Modifications

Posted by michael on from the little-things-mean-a-lot dept.

CitizenC points out that John Carmack's .plan file has been updated to discuss ATI's driver optimizations. If you weren't paying attention, ATI put code in their drivers to optimize for Quake3, based on the name of the executable - so when running Quake3, you'd get a (good) set of optimizations for the game, but when running the same game after changing the name of the executable, you'd get a default set of optimizations with lesser performance. Some people called this cheating since Quake3 is a typical benchmark application these days.

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  1. Cheating?! by KidSock · · Score: 1, Troll

    What the fsck are you talking about? If it works it works. This is great. I'm going to go out and buy an ATI card!