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Brians256 · 06-03-2003, 12:57 PM

"Futuremark now has a deeper understanding of the situation ..." - translation, "Futuremark knows who pays the bills, and it ain't the whistle blowers."

Sheeze, I'm all for software optimization to increase performance, but not at the expense of quality! Come on, nVidia. Own up to your strategy. There is no problem with having optimizations as long as they can be disabled to see what the game developer(s) ORIGINALLY INTENDED.

The companies could have taken this as an opportunity to showcase their software talent, but they turned it into a ethics mess by deciding to hide their optimizations. Doesn't it sound better to have the ability to boost performance by 30% with a minor hit in image quality? With FutureMark, you can even see how much of a boost you could get. Sure sounds better to me. I usually get tired of the eye candy in a game and get down to playing it after a couple of days anyway. At that point, I prefer fluidity to fidelity. But, let me make the choice, not you.

06-03-2003, 12:57 PM	#1
Brians256 Pro/Staff Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Klamath Falls, OR Posts: 1,439	Official: Cheating on Benchmarks OK "Futuremark now has a deeper understanding of the situation ..." - translation, "Futuremark knows who pays the bills, and it ain't the whistle blowers." Sheeze, I'm all for software optimization to increase performance, but not at the expense of quality! Come on, nVidia. Own up to your strategy. There is no problem with having optimizations as long as they can be disabled to see what the game developer(s) ORIGINALLY INTENDED. The companies could have taken this as an opportunity to showcase their software talent, but they turned it into a ethics mess by deciding to hide their optimizations. Doesn't it sound better to have the ability to boost performance by 30% with a minor hit in image quality? With FutureMark, you can even see how much of a boost you could get. Sure sounds better to me. I usually get tired of the eye candy in a game and get down to playing it after a couple of days anyway. At that point, I prefer fluidity to fidelity. But, let me make the choice, not you.