Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> To get the real results, you need to use demos and benchmarks by independant
> devlopers, and hope that your drivers don't have special codes that lowers the
> settings like resolution, polygon count and colour depth, to artificialy make
> the benchmark run faster. nVidia DID use that dirty trick, and there is no proof
> that ATI used it or not at this time.

  You mean that nvidia deliberately put some code in their display driver
that detected that you are running, for example, 3DMark, and if so it has
a special code which converts the triangle meshes given by 3DMark to the
driver to ones with less polygons so that the graphics card will appear
to run faster than it really would?

  I suppose there's no way for a program to detect such trickery...

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                                                          - Warp

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