ATI overoptimising as well?

WE GOT AN ANONYMOUS mail about ATI optimisation just before everyone started to talk about it last week, but this part of Vienna where I live in was massively hit with Sasser leaving me without or with a deadly slow internet for to long.

We are avid to learn why ATI beta drivers and its ati3duag.dll know what applications are they executing. Wise people that like to look into drivers have found references to these EXE files. You don't have to be wise to know we are talking about games and not about PowerPoint and Winamp here. Here is the short list: ati3duag.dll recognises CT3.exe, pop.exe, RaceDriver.exe, SplinterCell2.exe, SplinterCell.exe.

We will ask ATI for comment in Monday when we would like it to come to us with a clear explanation of what's happening here.

We don't have any of those EXE files, but in case you are reviewer and have this ATI card please rename them and let me know what happens then. I think that EXEs like FarCry.exe, UT2004.exe would be a much better couice to do some optimisations.

I guess there will be more when ATI decides to comment. µ

L'INQ

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