Alain wrote:

> They will probably install and run, but also, probably, with deliberately
> cripled performances.
> A dirty trick by those making the demos (independent from where they 
> come from):
> Let install on the concurent maker's card, but disable some features and 
> replace
> others with some DEoptimised versions that deliberately run slower.

Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me.

> 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.

Um... lower the polygon count? That sounds like a *highly* nontrivial 
task. Arguably more work than actually rendering all the polygons. :-P

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