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That's a poor analogy. The feature is built in to the cards that consumers bought, but Nvidia is disabling it via software. That's why a hacked driver can enabl
by bogwog 3y ago
That's a poor analogy. The feature is built in to the cards that consumers bought, but Nvidia is disabling it via software. That's why a hacked driver can enable it again. The resident in your analogy is just freeloading off the contractor's transformer.
Nvidia does this so that customers that need that feature are forced to buy more expensive systems instead of building a solution with the cheaper "consumer-grade" cards targeted at gamers and enthusiasts.
- bpye 3y agoThis isn’t even the first time a hacked driver has been used to unlock some HW feature - https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
- captcanuk 3y agoThere was also this https://hackaday.com/2013/03/18/hack-removes-firmware-crippling-from-nvidia-graphics-card/ https://hackaday.com/2013/03/18/hack-removes-firmware-crippl... using resistors and a different one before that used a graphene lead pencil to enable functionality.