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The tech industry has its own examples. I remember that Nvidia and/or AMD had graphics drivers that would actually detect when they were running certain benchm
by United857 8y ago
The tech industry has its own examples. I remember that Nvidia and/or AMD had graphics drivers that would actually detect when they were running certain benchmarks/games and "cheat" to get better results. This was proven by simply renaming the .exe, which adversely affected measurements.
- dmurray 8y agoDetecting popular games and optimizing for them isn't "cheating", it's best practice for the graphics card companies although it makes some independent game developers unhappy. Detecting the card is being run in a benchmarking environment is cheating, though it may also be a sign the industry needs better benchmarks.