An indepth look into NVIDIA's most recent drivers

FeRaL · 02-July-03, 12:58 AM

Ã‚â€œThere has been a lot of talk lately about NVIDIA cheating on benchmarks with there new Detonator FX drivers so I wanted to do some testing to see how far these claims really went. What I found to say the least was exactly what everyone has been talking about. They say that NVIDIA has been optimizing their drivers to gain higher scores on 3DMark 2003. Basically the way it works is the driver can sense when a benchmark is running and it turns the eye candy down to gain a higher score. In affect you get a better score with worse graphics. Ã‚â€œ

I'm actually impressed with all the work this guy did to get to the bottom of the controversy. I guess you can say the real proof is in the pudding.

Check it out!

ZENNZZO · 02-July-03, 07:17 AM

I don't know who pissed in these guys' cherrios... but if the beta guys who wrot those optimised drivers kept pluggn' away
at the real thing they would be where they should be...No fokin' way should we be paying for work they should have done in the first place..bastards anyhow. no wonder why our cards cost as much as a mobo, chip and ram...fok me running!!!

02-July-03, 12:58 AM		#1 (permalink)
FeRaL Mutant Moderator	An indepth look into NVIDIA's most recent drivers Ã‚â€œThere has been a lot of talk lately about NVIDIA cheating on benchmarks with there new Detonator FX drivers so I wanted to do some testing to see how far these claims really went. What I found to say the least was exactly what everyone has been talking about. They say that NVIDIA has been optimizing their drivers to gain higher scores on 3DMark 2003. Basically the way it works is the driver can sense when a benchmark is running and it turns the eye candy down to gain a higher score. In affect you get a better score with worse graphics. Ã‚â€œ I'm actually impressed with all the work this guy did to get to the bottom of the controversy. I guess you can say the real proof is in the pudding. Check it out!

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02-July-03, 07:17 AM		#2 (permalink)
ZENNZZO Direct Cool Hoe	I don't know who pissed in these guys' cherrios... but if the beta guys who wrot those optimised drivers kept pluggn' away at the real thing they would be where they should be...No fokin' way should we be paying for work they should have done in the first place..bastards anyhow. no wonder why our cards cost as much as a mobo, chip and ram...fok me running!!!