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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (4439)2/17/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (2) of 6843
 
Bill, <There is a lot of "testcraft" being done with video card makers optimizing drivers for the Z-D, and other benchmarks...>
This is a clear misunderstanding. What "testcraft" are you
talking about?

Drivers are part of an OS. Most sellable OS is Windows95.

Z-D benchmarks use GENERAL PURPOSE APPLICATIONS for Windows
(MS Word, WordPro, Paradox, CorelDRAW, MS Access, Excel,
Netscape...) that make the only API calls for this OS.
There is no special "crafting" here.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong in writing a better driver
for the most "popular" OS. Microsoft API layers get gradually
improved with each "Service Release" or "version" . All this AUTOMATICALLY improves Z-D benchmark scores. Driver just are
getting from junky kludges to a little bit better ones, but
could be improved even better. Is it what you call "crafting"?

<those figures could easily be an artifact of the benchmark.>
You seem to be unfamiliar with the Z-D benchmarks (see above).
If you are a user of other application/OS, feel free to write
your own driver (for your card) and your personal benchmark, and
then you will be well equipped to make your purchase decision
for your unique machine. Millions of other users should be
satisfied with Z-D scores, and there is no "artifacts" as you
tend to think.
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