NVIDIA "Cheating" With Crysis Beta Drivers?

M-HRT 06-11-2007, 12:31 AM

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Reports are surfacing that NVIDIA might've gained a few extra frame rates from their new Crysis-geared beta drivers by actually sacrificing some of the game's image quality. Some think that this can be categorized as cheating, and I'm sure AMD/ATi would like to think so.

If you take a closer look at this comparison screenshot, you'll see that water reflection in the distance (the rock formation to the left towards the horizon), as well as tree reflections in the water on the right look much smoother with Radeon's HD 2900XT than they do with the GeForce 8800GT. I presume also that both screenshots were taken on "Very High" settings and with max image quality in the driver control panel.

It's also worth noting that NVIDIA can simply write this off as a beta driver "bug."

Muhammad Saad

Yep, it is cheating because you can lower the quality your self than what the point of new driver?

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M-HRT

saad bhai theek se dekhe....
he is comparing the both cards with high res gfx.....in the comparison pic i mean result nvidia gfx looks crap with new drivers and 8800gtx card where ati looks gud and smooth check out the comparison pic.....

Asad

There are too many assumptions...

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ali.tayyab

i posted this in the tech news section about a day ago

the problem is as follows:

the reflections in the water are updated every 10 frames with the new driver (169.00), while the radeon updates them every frame

this gains nvidia about 3-5 frames at best

to get rid of the issue rename crysis.exe to dontdupeme.exe and u're good to go.


here is the op:
nvidia Forceware 169.xx + Crysis = Quake III and ATi 8500???


according to hardcop it does not negatively impact gameplay exp.

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M-HRT

hmmm.......

mave_3

Greeen team just finding whys to hype there products that all...
why do such a thing in the 1st place when u know that it can be corrected.
just to show a 2 or 3 % fps gain...
they do suck sometime...........
just to optimize game performance with a driver.
Loot at ATI in regard..
they make one driver and all is covered in that..
now thats what i call stable performance..!!!!!!!
soo go and check those new drivers of the Green team and Spoil ur Experience of Crysis..
noway!!!!

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ali.tayyab

ati has done the same time and again. infact ati started it all with 8500 and quake III.

and as already been pointed out, this can be undone easily and doesnt impact gameplay.

M-HRT

i agree with u mave bhai....
porche unleashed ko bhe Nvidia support nahe karta jab hum ati ka patch istamal karte he tab jake chalte ha......

Muhammad Saad

you didnt understand the post buddy ,I already notice the reflection difference in the pic thats why I said that if we gonna increase the performance by lowering the quality than we can do it our selves so no point of using the 04 driver because driver main job is to optimize the game not lower the quality

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