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Monday, December 19 2005

Dual Core Conspiracy Theory For New Quake 4 Patch!  by Liam S at 19:15

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AMDZone report on what they seem to think is some ploy by intel to hamper the performance of this patch on AMD systems. The 1.05 beta patch was meant to enable multi-threading support on all modern cpu's even those with HyperThreading. But from the looks of these tests only Intel systems seem to gain any performance form the patch, whereas all AMD system see a significant drop in performance!

With Intel working on this code one would have to wonder if they are doing anything to cripple AMD's performance particularly when HyperThreading in so many cases actual drops performance.

Sounds a bit underhand to me but is interesting all the same. If any of you out there have experienced this please let us know!
Tags: Quake 4
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D3CYPH3R
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19 December 2005 19:26
I've heard of optimising code for ur own hardware, but buggering it up for another surely not. Perhaps the code better uses the the intel cpu code, i know certain 3d rendering and vid editing software work better on intel cpu's due to the fact they are coded to use all the specific instruction sets and other bit's and bobs. Perhaps intel is just adding this optimised code into the game code.
Mani
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19 December 2005 19:42
Wouldn't supruise me if they just compiled the game with an intel specific compiler, a simple re-compile may fix it. But we shall see
Jammin
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19 December 2005 21:15
Dirty Intel, I don't like them anyway.
Tricky
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19 December 2005 22:42
Doesnt it debunk the whole pro intel later in the article when they realise the problem was nvidia drivers?


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