____/ [H]omer on Thursday 17 January 2008 11:40 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
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>> Oh, and don't forget faking some images to show bogus improvement...
>
> Oh I forgot about that one. It was the box cover of some flight sim
> game, or something, wasn't it?
Yes. F A K E R!
Microsoft, Flight Simulator developers use images to paint misleading picture
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| We received this set of screenshots ages ago from Microsoft itself, which
| used this game heavily to promote the beauty of DX10 and how necessary is to
| switch from Windows XP to Vista. These two screenshots ended in quite a lot
| of mainstream magazines, and were all over the place in specialist IT media.
|
| [...]
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| Nobody buys explanations about why Flight Simulator runs so slowly on
| quad-core processors and most powerful graphics cards, as we concluded in our
| review.
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| FSX is rendering practically everything, forget about any modern 3D feature
| such as Occlussion Culling, Occlusion Querry and Z-buffer compression and
| putting a bitmap cockpit on blanked alpha texture, while everything else is
| being rendered.
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| This procedure just kills performance and we could not imagine any game past
| DX7 utilizing such a concept.
|
| We cannot avoid the thought that this plot might have been done deliberately,
| in order to spark interest about the game itself and boost sales of a product
| that usually has a limited customer base.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/26/flight-simulator-developer
I don't think laws against false advertising apply here and I doubt anyone
would sue over polygons.
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