Except this was done against the explicit graphics settings the customers had set and only for a handful of games that were regularly used as benchmarks. Custo

Except this was done against the explicit graphics settings the customers had set and only for a handful of games that were regularly used as benchmarks. Customers who actually want framerate-beyond-all-else don't enable/would disable those settings in the first place. So if it were "giving the customer what they want" they'd have respected the customer's settings. What it actually was, was a simple recognition that people used "framerate at max quality" as a proxy for net card performance and an attempt to "game" such measures by not actually running at max quality, for those games that were common benchmarks.