cruiseoveride :
Are there any honest hardware manufacturers? Who sell spec and not "optimised" drivers.
But this business of what nvidia does, and is continuing to do, is that even legal? Can't someone take that up with the BBB?
How would you take this up with the BBB?
Reviewers had to back track in the days when people seemed convinced that there was blatant cheating in the past, there's no way this would make a case for the BBB.
If GM sold cars with 4 air bags, but only 2 are ever used, I'm sure they would be facing litigation.
That doesn't make sense. I assume you meant only 2 work/function. That' si a safety issue, these issues are essnetially preference issues. The discussion of IQ has gone on since well before the 'Quack' optimization. And what usually changes something from a potential cheat to a true benificial optimization is if it appears overtly in future driver release to the benifit of rht gamer. Floptimizations usually dissapear once they are notice because either they are a bug or else a discovered 'questionable advantage' which is not desired in the next release.
Sometimes while it reduces quality it might be for a beneficial reason. If the GF6300 cannot play Crysis at all, some partial precision calls to allow it to play on low setting and low resolution would be worth it versus a prettier still painting. Just like those who enjoyed Oblivion as OLDblivion on their FXs, GF4s, Radeon 8500 and intel GMA 9xx cards were likely happy to simply play the game, even if it wasn't the way it looks on a GF7/X1K card.
Just because no one dies due to the lack of proper rendering (skipping frames,details etc..) isn't that fraud?
Explain how that would work? What part of it is fraudulent? You buy the hardware and nVidia provides the drivers, there is no promise or guarantee on the results other than the vague "best played on..." "for the best graphics" etc, which are always subjective enough to not have any legal weight to them.
The main thing is scrutiny, and hopefully the latest round of issues will bring greater scrutiny to the reviews, most of which were probably fine with running 'fire & forget' benchmarks and not looking any deeper.
In the end it's still up to the consumer to weigh which issues matter to them, and whethe they're enough to overturn the benifits of product a vs product b. We just need to rely on the reviewers to do their job in finding out all they can including these potnetial issues so everyone looks at the products in their full capacity, not some unbalanced comparison.
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