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Famously if you renamed Quake 3 to "Quack" 3, it would slow down on the ATI Radeon 8500 https://web.archive.org/web/20091016055550/https://hardocp.com/article/2
by kalleboo 4mo ago
Famously if you renamed Quake 3 to "Quack" 3, it would slow down on the ATI Radeon 8500 https://web.archive.org/web/20091016055550/https://hardocp.com/article/2001/10/23/optimizing_or_cheating_radeon_8500_drivers/ https://web.archive.org/web/20091016055550/https://hardocp.c...
- account42 4mo agoThat's a case of the driver cheating but there are also lots of cases where the game is just full of bugs that the driver has to work around in order to not be blamed for them.
- Gibbon1 4mo agoI've said over the years a few times, this isn't our fault but it's our problem.
- smallstepforman 4mo agoThe driver switched to lower mipmapped texture and got caught. There is a ton of that out there for popular benchmark ready games. Run pro drivers instead of adrenaline to run generic baseline real driver.