More 'Application-Specific' Optimizations in NVidia Drivers

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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Re:Hypocrisy

[EmagGeek]

Well I was going to reply to this, and spent 10 minutes typing examples, but their fucking "lameness filter" wouldn't let me write " open-parenthesis-capital-x-closed-parenthesis" and I got pissed off..

Re:I will take a wait and see attitude. [OT]

[mr3038]

The DualShock2 is the best controller out there for just about everything else. It's comfortable, it has intelligently placed buttons, it has enough buttons, but not *too* many

It might be the best, but it's far from good. I personally prefer DualShock2 analog sticks over other products but DualShock2 has really bad buttons when compared to competitors. Have you ever tried triggers under the XBox controller? You just hate to use DualShock2 controller ever again.

One thing I especially hate with game console controllers is that those're designed to be used with thumbs only. Hello? See, I've four other fingers in both hands, why not use those? (Yep, some games support triggers but still using all 10 buttons in the DualShock controller is real pain in the ass.)

DualShock2 (and any controller that comes with any game console) is something that allows you to play all games but it's not perferct for anything. Take driving games for example: the only driving wheel that works even moderately well with PS2 is Logitech's newer model. AFAIK, there's not a single one usable force feedback wheel controller for XBox. Nevermind the fact that the MS FF Wheel for PC is about the best wheel there is. And this is the situation even though driving games is one of the biggest console gaming genres.

And all the first person shooters... anybody that claims that console controller is more suitable for that genre of games than keyboard and mouse should go online with some game that allows plaing against PC players and get their feet wet.

The problem with all the consoles is lowest common dominator: if something doesn't come with every console it's supported by practically no game. How many games support, for example, more than 2 players on PS2 even though the console can support 8?