More 'Application-Specific' Optimizations in NVidia Drivers

Posted by michael on Friday June 6, 2003 @01:00AM 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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Re:So What? Who Cares? by s20451 · 2003-06-06 01:28 · Score: 1, Troll

Forget features. I'm stuck with the vid cards that work under XFree86, in non-framebuffer mode. I still remember the day I tried to install Linux on a machine with an ATI Rage 128 card, only to have it say: sorry, driver not written yet.

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Re:Renaming by Inda · 2003-06-06 02:11 · Score: 0, Troll

Well fucking fuck my fucking karma today as well then.

BTW you all suck.

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