NVIDIA caught cheating....AGAIN!

[Larry Roberts]

If they want to enable an optimization for a particular game, then that
should be a *user option* in the drivers. That is, you should be able
to enable/disable the feature with a few mouse clicks. Benchmarking for
comparative purposed should be peformed with all
(quality-reducing/modifying) optimizations off. You have to at least
strive for apples-to-apples comparisons.

That's the way I see it, anyway.

That's the way I see it too.

 

[Darthy]

Explain why anybody would rename the farcry.exe file ? I don't get it.
Sounds like an April Fools that missed the boat.

Well... kinda... But look at the Nvidia demo called DAWN (the fairy
demo) if you rename the EXE file to quake3.exe and then run it, she is
nude (detailed nipples, but crack, only a tiny leave covering her
shaved crotch).

Note: Nvidia has since updated the demo so it no longer does this with
thier cards.... but... using a wrapper for the ATI 9800Pro, the "fix"
doesn't kick in... I can confirm that my system did this.

 

[Asestar]

You can also tell the game that the card is a 9800XT and not a 6800
and the mipmap level becomes of lesser quality. This is old news.

What? Become lesser quality? I heard it was other way around? Forcing
9800XT's ID on 6800 would increase mipmap and some shader quality, thus
giving lower performance on 6800...

 

[Asestar]

Those declaring Nvida as cheats focus on the viewpoint of those who may be
choosing to buy a new card. But what about those who have already have an FX
card? Wouldn't Nvidia be cheating them not to get games running as well as
possible? No one seriously thinks Nvida is going to declare these cards as
non dx9 cards and offer refunds to those who bought them to play dx9 games?

You said is correct, however, don't you think they should be given an option
in driver panel? or maybe a seperate game launcher program?
What's the point of reducing IQ to improve fps for faster cards like 5950?
It makes sence for 5200-5700, but why do they thiink all cards need this?

 

[John Russell]

You said is correct, however, don't you think they should be given an option
in driver panel?

I already suggested they should declare their FX cards as DX8 hardware
complient only, and then have an option in the driver panel called "DX9
emulation".

 

[Slug]

However, if these speed enhancement mean reducing the IQ, shame on them!

Yes, that's what it does. It lowers the mipmap quality.

 

[Slug]

Explain why anybody would rename the farcry.exe file ? I don't get it.
Sounds like an April Fools that missed the boat.

You can also tell the game that the card is a 9800XT and not a 6800
and the mipmap level becomes of lesser quality. This is old news.

 

[Slug]

What? Become lesser quality? I heard it was other way around? Forcing
9800XT's ID on 6800 would increase mipmap and some shader quality, thus
giving lower performance on 6800...

Duh, that's what I had meant to say, sorry for the confusion.

 

[GTD]

The (German original) story says that if you rename Farcry.exe to
something else, it runs a lot slower on Nvidia cards. I take it that the
fps optimization occurs by reducing the graphics quality.

Well, If it doesn't reduce quality, or only slightly, I'd see it as a
legitimate optimisation. True though, Seems like it would be nice if
it were left to the user to decide.



You should start drinking prune juice and KY jelly cocktails right now,
that will make things a lot smoother.
-Felatio Love

 

[h2so4]

What's the point of reducing IQ to improve fps for faster cards like 5950?
It makes sence for 5200-5700, but why do they thiink all cards need this?

I believe that there may be a direct correlation between measured IQ and
having the time to worry about about such minutia, but I suppose I could be
wrong.