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More 'Application-Specific' Optimizations in NVidia Drivers

Posted by michael on from the but-it's-not-cheating-so-there dept.

EconolineCrush writes "Futuremark and NVIDIA have been embroiled in a spat over various cheat/optimizations in 3DMark03 for several weeks now. Last week, the soap opera appeared to be over; Futuremark and NVIDIA released a joint statement in which Futuremark clarified that NVIDIA was optimizing its drivers for 3DMark03 rather than cheating. This story, however, appears to be far from over. Tech Report has uncovered a new series of optimizations in NVIDIA's Detonator FX drivers that affect image quality in even Futuremark's latest 3DMark03 build. What's more, if you rename the 3DMark03 executable, the optimizations disappear."

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  1. and they all told me I was crazy.... by sweeney37 · · Score: 5, Funny

    well luckily for me I've renamed all my executables files 3DMark03.exe for some time now.

    Mike

    1. Re:and they all told me I was crazy.... by Mysticalfruit · · Score: 4, Funny

      So NVIDIA is guilty of using corked drivers?

      Geez! On a side note, I had heard of something like that where some site recommended that renaming your executable to some "name" would give better results.

      I think someone should run "strings" on the nvidia driver to see what other names work...

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  2. Renaming by jabbadabbadoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried various tricks too. Oddly, renaming it to Outlook.exe made it crash.

    1. Re:Renaming by crawling_chaos · · Score: 5, Funny
      Oddly, renaming it to Outlook.exe made it crash

      It also sent an e-mail with "I Love You" in the subject to all of your contacts. I wonder if the reason for delays on the FX card was that they'd renamed the burn-in application DukeNukemForeever.exe?

      Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.

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    2. Re:Renaming by Carbonite · · Score: 4, Funny

      I wonder if the reason for delays on the FX card was that they'd renamed the burn-in application DukeNukemForeever.exe?

      Damn, NVidia's going to be pissed. They delayed the launch of the FX cards and misspelled the file name.

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  3. Sweet Irony by zeus_tfc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does anyone else see the irony in the fact that the "Graphics" topic doesn't have a picture?

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