This is getting sickening.
First we have ATi's Quake 3 fiasco, then comes nVidia with their 3DMark 2003 cheats and to a lesser degree ATi.
Then Digit-Life shows nVidia cheating in 3DM2001 as well, and again to a lesser degree ATi.
Now it seems nVidia forcefully disables trilinear filtering in UT2003 regardless of in-game/driver settings.
For christ sakes, soon enough we will be questioning all benchmarks.
It's sad that sites like Beyond3D/FiringSquad have had to devise their own benchmark demos, along with the typically used ones to help ward off cheating.
While nVidia seems to be at the fore-front of this, ATi isnt wholly innocent themselves.
Even if the cheating doesnt come as much of a shock, the confirmation and apparent wide-spread basis in which it's used is less then impressive.
At this rate soon enough we won't be able to discuss which graphics cards are superior, it'll be more realistically a discussion over whom is the most innovative in finding new ways to cheat.
I've never put much faith in the morals of almost any corporation in the IT industry, even outside of the consumer graphics segment of the market but at least elsewhere we arent forced to question the validity of damn near everything we see.
:disgust:
(Yes I realize some of these cheats are debateable, specifically ATi's 3DM2003/Q3A issues.... but that aside it really is becoming sickening)
First we have ATi's Quake 3 fiasco, then comes nVidia with their 3DMark 2003 cheats and to a lesser degree ATi.
Then Digit-Life shows nVidia cheating in 3DM2001 as well, and again to a lesser degree ATi.
Now it seems nVidia forcefully disables trilinear filtering in UT2003 regardless of in-game/driver settings.
For christ sakes, soon enough we will be questioning all benchmarks.
It's sad that sites like Beyond3D/FiringSquad have had to devise their own benchmark demos, along with the typically used ones to help ward off cheating.
While nVidia seems to be at the fore-front of this, ATi isnt wholly innocent themselves.
Even if the cheating doesnt come as much of a shock, the confirmation and apparent wide-spread basis in which it's used is less then impressive.
At this rate soon enough we won't be able to discuss which graphics cards are superior, it'll be more realistically a discussion over whom is the most innovative in finding new ways to cheat.
I've never put much faith in the morals of almost any corporation in the IT industry, even outside of the consumer graphics segment of the market but at least elsewhere we arent forced to question the validity of damn near everything we see.
:disgust:
(Yes I realize some of these cheats are debateable, specifically ATi's 3DM2003/Q3A issues.... but that aside it really is becoming sickening)
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