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New DX10 Benchmarks Do More Bad than Good

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-can-you-trust dept.

NIMBY writes "An interesting editorial over at PC Perspective looks at the changing status between modern game developers and companies like AMD and NVIDIA that depend on their work to show off their products. Recently, both AMD and NVIDIA separately helped in releasing DX10 benchmarks based on upcoming games that show the other hardware vendor in a negative light. But what went on behind the scenes? Can any collaboration these companies use actually be trusted by reviewers and the public to base a purchasing decision on? The author thinks the one source of resolution to this is have honest game developers take a stance for the gamer."

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  1. Goatse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    New goatse benchmarks do even more harm!

  2. This episode of "Ask Carmack" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We may as well get him to weigh in on DirectX vs... anything Lunix can throw together. Hmm... id's last game didn't support Linux... did it? Or the one before that? Running as a dedicated server doesn't count: running a game server on Linux is like kissing your mom- yeah, you are "running a game", but you aren't exactly playing.