Uhm, I don't know if this has been brought up or not. But given that timedemos are "on the rails" so to speak as are the 3DMark tests, is it not possible that Nvidia and other companies could do these same sort of hacks to improve performance that would not show up in real world gaming?
I mean, no one has a Quake3 SDK to be able to take the timedemos off the rails and test whether or not there's any funny business going on right?
I know 3DMark is synthetic, but so is any benchmark that you can't actually play. Any timedemo is synthetic, and thus would probably be subject to this same type of manipulation. I don't know if I'd put it past them.
Thoughts?
I mean, no one has a Quake3 SDK to be able to take the timedemos off the rails and test whether or not there's any funny business going on right?
I know 3DMark is synthetic, but so is any benchmark that you can't actually play. Any timedemo is synthetic, and thus would probably be subject to this same type of manipulation. I don't know if I'd put it past them.
Thoughts?