NVidia cheating in Farcry?

[zephyrprime]

From a german website. Surprised no one posted this yet.


Instead of as before about 23 pictures per second (1,600 x of 1,200 pixels, 32 bits, 4xAA and 8xAF) our GeForce reached 6800 Ultra of extremes edition of suddenly 40.3 pictures per second.
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If one designates however the file "FarCry.EXE" for example in "FartCry.EXE" over, the result of the bench mark in the dissolutions of 1.024 x 768, 1,280 x 1,024 and 1,600 x of 1,200 pixels worsens around in each case 10 pictures per second (!).


chip.de


Update:
The nature of the mystery is revealed. Changing farcry.exe to fartcry.exe causes AA to be disabled if it was enabled in the control panel. But aa can still be enabled in the game settings.

new chip article

NVidia says the problem is that Far Cry uses to much video memory and the driver automatically reacts by turning off AA. It is written in German so it's hard to understand what was really meant but my take is that Farcry is the one that has a bug that causes it to allocate too much frame buffer memory when AA is selected in the control panel but the bug does not exist if you select AA from within the game itself.

 

[alexXx]

would any hardware site still have a 6800 to test this on?

 

[Jeff7181]

I didn't think it was any secret that nVidia optimizes their drivers...

 

[VIAN]

This is cheating. Get the torches.

 

[vshah]

sure the performance drops. but does IQ change?

-Vivan

 

[cstring]

Wow this would be interesting, cheating is baddddddd.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: VIAN
This is cheating. Get the torches.

yes master vain

 

[VIAN]

Get the name right, fool.

 

[Pete]

Originally posted by: vshah
sure the performance drops. but does IQ change?

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Viper96720]

Maybe the card doesn't use shader 3.0 when the executable is renamed.

 

[VIAN]

I know what I want and I want it now, I want a torch, cause I'm Mr....

 

[BFG10K]

sure the performance drops. but does IQ change?

I'd be interested in seeing if the artifacts with the 1.1 version disappear.

Maybe the card doesn't use shader 3.0 when the executable is renamed.

Given DirectX 9.0c isn't out yet there is no possible way it could be using SM 3.0.

 

[modedepe]

Originally posted by: vshah
sure the performance drops. but does IQ change?

-Vivan

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: vshah
sure the performance drops. but does IQ change?

-Vivan

million dollar question ^^^

 

[MemberSince97]

Methane gas + Torch =.................................:moon:

 

[VIAN]

Too many bugs (cough) cheats (cough)... Another side-effect of competition. Sni... Torches. Got the Jitters, why wait.. grab a Torch.

 

[VisableAssassin]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

sure the performance drops. but does IQ change?

I'd be interested in seeing if the artifacts with the 1.1 version disappear.

Maybe the card doesn't use shader 3.0 when the executable is renamed.

Given DirectX 9.0c isn't out yet there is no possible way it could be using SM 3.0.

actually you can DL the "beta" version of 9.0c
there was a link running around with it...havent tried it...but supposedly it does work

 

[Viper96720]

lol someone should test with other games used for benchmarking change the executable name. I remember the fuss with ATI and Quack.

 

[nemesismk2]

I wonder how bad image quality will be effected when using ATI's new "3Dc compression", we could be having Quack style image quality all over again!

 

[Regs]

Even if IQ is the same, I wouldn't like that Nvidia would be so depended on their drivers. I don't want to be downloading updates for Nvidia like I do security patches for Windows until it finally works.

This all could be resolved when retail drivers are released and mature.

 

[skace]

I like to rename my game executables and hope the FPS drops also.

 

[IHYLN]

wait, don't the new drivers have a "game profile" tab where you can specify performance/color settings PER GAME? If farcry is in the game profile for the drivers and you rename the executable, what do you expect?

 

[imported_obsidian]

Who the hell cares. Like this is really news to anyone. If you really want to complain you need to show an increase in IQ when renamed.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: IHYLN
wait, don't the new drivers have a "game profile" tab where you can specify performance/color settings PER GAME? If farcry is in the game profile for the drivers and you rename the executable, what do you expect?

I know nothing about that, but if it's true or has an effect, that would funny.

 

[Acanthus]

Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Now we are gonna hear it from the fanbois for the next year and a half... Sure its slower but at least it doesnt cheat OMGZ OMGZ OMGZ....