I was reading Wired, and found interesting article.
Some quotes
<< "(The accusations have) caught everybody here totally off guard," said David Nalasco, technical marketing manager for ATI. "Our driver guys were totally in shock. We thought we were making the experience better for the user."
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<< Anand Lal Shimpi, who runs the popular AnandTech website, also ran a glowing review before the driver issue was uncovered. Like Phillips, he said the company has egg on its face.
"It damaged them a lot in the eyes of their end users," said Shimpi. "These are their customers, and they are a company being branded as a cheater. As a reviewer I've seen everything. This is just another I-can't-believe-they-did-this."
"Die hard ATI fans were saying this is going too far," Shimpi added. "It's not murder, but it's still cheating. It's still a betrayal of trust I think, and it really comes down to, 'did they consciously make a decision to do this?'"
ATI said the driver tweaks were made simply to optimize the performance of a popular game, not monkey with the benchmarks
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Not many of you realize that ATI still cheats. Sky looks worse than GF w/compression enabled (without compression fix), and ATI replaced some 32bit textures with 16bit ones.
Some quotes
<< "(The accusations have) caught everybody here totally off guard," said David Nalasco, technical marketing manager for ATI. "Our driver guys were totally in shock. We thought we were making the experience better for the user."
>>
<< Anand Lal Shimpi, who runs the popular AnandTech website, also ran a glowing review before the driver issue was uncovered. Like Phillips, he said the company has egg on its face.
"It damaged them a lot in the eyes of their end users," said Shimpi. "These are their customers, and they are a company being branded as a cheater. As a reviewer I've seen everything. This is just another I-can't-believe-they-did-this."
"Die hard ATI fans were saying this is going too far," Shimpi added. "It's not murder, but it's still cheating. It's still a betrayal of trust I think, and it really comes down to, 'did they consciously make a decision to do this?'"
ATI said the driver tweaks were made simply to optimize the performance of a popular game, not monkey with the benchmarks
>>
Not many of you realize that ATI still cheats. Sky looks worse than GF w/compression enabled (without compression fix), and ATI replaced some 32bit textures with 16bit ones.
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