Nvidia cheating again, this time Crysis

LoadsaMoney · 4 Nov 2007 at 20:39

http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=487&Itemid=29

'But, there you have it - While renaming the Crysis single-player demo executable fixes the image quality issues with all of NVIDIA's ForceWare 169.0x drivers, it also reduces performance by around 7% on average. It's worth noting that these issues are also experienced in-game, rather than simply in the game's timedemo mode, although due to the slower camera movement of the player walking around rather than the fly-by used when benchmarking, it is normally far less noticeable.

Oh dear, rumbled again.

(Just keep refreshing as sometimes link doesn't work).

Tom|Nbk · 4 Nov 2007 at 20:45

Oh dear NVIDIA win's again.

SS-89 · 4 Nov 2007 at 20:46

Big.Wayne · 4 Nov 2007 at 20:48

Has anyone tried it themselves?

I just spent a few hours benching this game and found the 8800GT *just* comes out ahead of a HD 2900XT. If there is a driver hack then that would put the HD 2900XT ahead of the 8800GT I think.

rippling · 4 Nov 2007 at 20:51

i did notice the reflections on the time demo so thats true enough

Cyber-Mav · 4 Nov 2007 at 20:52

standard driver optimisation.

my x1900xt runs bioshock, but if i want AA enabled i have to rename the bioshock.exe file to oblivion.exe then force AA, but just by renaming the file from bioshock.exe to oblivion.exe and running the game as it is there is a performance loss.

quite surprised you guys not know about this sort of stuff. can;t be just me thats in the 'know' around here

LoadsaMoney · 4 Nov 2007 at 20:57

Of course we know about optimisations, this is about Nvidia cheating to boost performance by not rendering the game correctly. :confused:

Once you knock the cheating off, you lose over 7% performance, as it renders correctly, how it should be done.

Big.Wayne · 4 Nov 2007 at 20:58

Cyber-Mav said:
me

Hey Mav, the tread is about the nVidia-Crysis drivers not you!

Cyber-Mav · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:00

need some pics of this. that link to that site is dead or intermittant.

Big.Wayne · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:06

Cyber-Mav said:
intermittant.

Yup but a few refreshes sorts that out, obviously there are a lot of budding Cyber-Mavs out there trying to read it also!

LoadsaMoney · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:08

Look at the reflections of the mountains in the distance, wonder what others they've done in there to boost performance.

perox · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:12

I've just ran the benchmark again to see this and my reflections are fine, gunna get a screenshot.

EDIT:

There we go...

LoadsaMoney · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:14

No wonder theres a stack of ppl saying i got more frames with these drivers.

queamin · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:15

They at it again

,but to be honest they both done it in the past but not good.

dr. sarf · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:18

Grrr their server is always so slow, will read through it when it's loadable.

drak3 · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:19

oh god, this was cheap!

braveheart · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:32

the 169.04 is beta version -- the 163.69 WHQL is full driver...

Inazuma · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:36

"again" ?

Dingleberry88 · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:39

Looks fine to me:

Edit: Blighters imagehosting's blocked?!

http://ocuk. blighter.net/imageuploader/files/37/crysis.jpg

Remove the sapce.

RaiderX · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:46

wondered y there was a ton of z-fighting on the boxes and some other things, time to start renaming stuff to crysis.exe and see if performance increases