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ramble81@lemm.ee 5 weeks agohacks, workarounds, and edge cases
That’s always what I thought when they release a new driver for a specific game. I’m like “seriously? Do they check the executable or something?” Yes, yes they do.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 weeks ago
They do that on Linux as well. Depending on the name of your Doom 3 executable you’d get different performance, if I recall correctly.
It’s always funny to see that drivers and operating systems are littered with workarounds for (in my eyes) shoddy bugs in downstream applications.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
When hardware meet firmware, especially as complex as a GPU, there will always be unpredictable bugs.
Mix that with every company that uses your driver differently, and computer hardware variation, you can’t cover all edge cases.