On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Scott Ritchie <[email protected]> wrote: > One note of caution is that video card manufacturers have been known to > blatantly cheat on these tests by rigging their drivers with special > hacks when they detect 3dmark is running. As far as I know the code may > still be there. > > Since the Linux drivers probably don't have these hacks, if they are > indeed still enabled you wouldn't get an Apples:Apples comparison even > on the same hardware.
Scott, please bottom post on wine mailing lists. As for the driver hacks, you might try renaming the executable (e.g., 3dmark.exe ->3dmarktest.exe). Some of those hacks only check the executable name, and renaming the executable restores the 'real' behavior. Quake 3 was well known for this.. -- -Austin
