3Dmark05 to arrive in two weeks
Jaybo
Don't worry, I'm sure Driverheaven and EB will be waiting to find proof of more cheating as soon as it is released... *rolls eyes*
DooGie
Me too. Now I can stop enjoying myself playing games and just spend my time benchmarking various graphics drivers. Now thats the real life LOL.
popalazarous
come on, lets face it together, who gives a *****, all i need are the games to play well. These benchmark progs that you "HAVE TO PAY FOR AS WELL" ARE A LOAD OF CRAP. Doesnt really tell you all that much about how well it will work on your own pc with you fave games, but then theres always some geek who reels off a load of useless numbers to say how great they and thier system are. Come on peoples lets see some nice programs that can make doom3 look better on my system ;->
Jaybo
It's a comment about the eagerness of both sites to attract readers with a story about cheating.
MuffinMan
I heard that DW applied for a job at DriverHeaven, but they rejected him on the grounds that he was too embedded in the mATIrix even for their tastes :(
Jaybo
lol
thomas997
you dont HAVE to pay for these programs. I agree they are kinda useless and a waste of money if you do, but still, its a cool way to show off your system. 3d video sorta. :p
El_Coyote
whats wrong with finding cheats?
MuffinMan
I don't think there's anything wrong with finding cheats, but certain sites (driverheaven, cough, cough) also like to imagine cheats and present it as "exclusive news". Like when they decided to di a filtering comparison between Refrast, ATI and Nvidia and concluded that Nvidia were "cheating" because the images didn't match up pixel-perfect. They totally ignored the fact that Refrast and ATI didn't match, focusing instead on the greater differences between Refrast and Nvidia. I mean, for fucks sake, of COURSE refrast and Nvidia are going to produce different images. Nvidia use far higher precision Bilinear and Trilinear filtering than either Refrast or ATI. The real scandal 'should' have been that Refrast and the ATI images differed, as they both use the same low precision 5-bit lod for Bi and 6-bit for Trilinear (with Nvidia using 8-bit) But no, DrATIverheATIven needed to create an anti-Nvidia story out of thin air and did so in a way that would make DW proud.
digitalwanderer
I think I'll just wait a bit to comment on this one, good to see people interested in it and excited about it though. ;)
MB
lol youre mean
thomas997
hm I dont think so. Doom 3 is an odd game. Overclocking your cpu 400mhz does nothing, changing all kinds of settings does nothing, OCing graphics card 10mhz makes a huge difference. Maybe as a gfx card benchmark but i dunno..
Jaybo
I am not biased at all towards either card company.
MuffinMan
This was a DriverHeaven "exposee" on Nvidia's filtering (ie: cheating) long after the clip-planes fiasco. They attempted to prove that Nvidia were "still" cheating, in the attempt only proving their own incompetence.
Tuckwit
3DMark is good at telling you what kind of performance you'll get in 3DMark.
MuffinMan
While generally speaking that's true, Tests 2 and 3 in 3DMk03 also gave a pretty accurate indication of what performance one could expect from games such as Thief 3 and Doom 3. Overall, I think 3DMark is a valuable tool "when used as part of an overall benchmarking setup". To base the quality of a videocard on it alone, as many did with the Radeon 8500 and 3DMark01 (when the card lost in almost every game to the competition) is just plain silly. I really don't understand why people continue to slam the guys at FM for what they're trying to achieve.
