Reviews "leaking"... a new trend?

[Rys]

I don't think it works that way for a lot of sites. Speaking for HEXUS, we put articles in the database so we can preview them and fix layout issues before going live.

Sometimes partners request a preview URL before publishing date, so that requires some form of content publishing before hand.

It's pretty much essential that content is loaded in to your CMS and previewed as soon as possible, to check for issues.

You can secure those systems adequately and still have 'live' content for people you trust to access.

Not loading your CMS at all until the last minute isn't really doable.

Rys

 

[John Reynolds]

Lars, using 61.11 drivers has already proven your point

noticed the different color? All IQ tests were run with the 60.72 drivers. It seems to be a bit fanatic to see a cheat behind every performance increase. NV40 is a new chip. A performance increase from beta to beta driver is nothing really surprising. You can also see some perfromance drops with 61.11.

Happy flaming!

After the past year? And by your own admission you didn't even do an IQ analysis with the 61.11s and yet have no problems posting a 20% boost in Far Cry, a game that makes more use of shaders than anything else yet released? After all of last year?!

No, "fanatic" is not the word, more like sensible and reasonable to suspect possible cheating, particularly with a game like Far Cry. In fact, the word fanatic could be more accurately applied to a person willing to assume everything's on the up 'n up in this situation.

 

[dizietsma]

Lars, using 61.11 drivers has already proven your point

noticed the different color? All IQ tests were run with the 60.72 drivers. It seems to be a bit fanatic to see a cheat behind every performance increase. NV40 is a new chip. A performance increase from beta to beta driver is nothing really surprising. You can also see some perfromance drops with 61.11.

Happy flaming!

After the past year? And by your own admission you didn't even do an IQ analysis with the 61.11s and yet have no problems posting a 20% boost in Far Cry, a game that makes more use of shaders than anything else yet released? After all of last year?!

No, "fanatic" is not the word, more like sensible and reasonable to suspect possible cheating, particularly with a game like Far Cry. In fact, the word fanatic could be more accurately applied to a person willing to assume everything's on the up 'n up in this situation.

Does it use more shaders than 3dmark03 ? The increase in that was minor but as expected with a driver tweak. And Microsoft say nvidia drivers are better than there own rasterizer for quality.

Or have the cheats gone to Far Cry, is that what you are suggesting ?

Could be, a front page investigation on beyond3d would be good, like last year with 3dmark.

 

[digitalwanderer]

Or have the cheats gone to Far Cry, is that what you are suggesting ?

The jury is still out, but I feel a massive "FartCry" investigation about to bust out....

 

[Kombatant]

Or have the cheats gone to Far Cry, is that what you are suggesting ?

The jury is still out, but I feel a massive "FartCry" investigation about to bust out....

What's worrying is that sites used those 61.xx drivers in such an important article like the X800/X800XT review just like that; without any research concerning their quality. Either there are still journalists that blindly trust nVidia, or...