[MPlayer-users] Re: best graphical card for mplayer

[Julien WAJSBERG]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jonathan Rogers wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > Maybe you think it's fair that they get away with advertising their
> > products as doing things which they really can't/don't do, by
> > emulating missing features with the drivers? IMO the two biggest
> > reasons they don't release specs are to cover up lies in the
> > advertising and to cover up infringement on (usually bogus) patents.
>
> I'm sure companies get away with advertising features their products
> don't have, but do you know that Nvidia and ATI are doing this? Maybe
> they are, but I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm sure

It's well known Nvidia and ATI were cheating with the 3D Mark 2003
program... They used optimizations specifically for this program, and
working with nothing else, to gain more fps. NVidia cheated considerably
more than ATI, BTW.

-- 
Julien