Graphic Cards Rename fear.exe and gain 30%+ performance on ATi cards with no IQ loss

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Rename fear.exe and gain 30%+ performance with no IQ loss

This sucks nonethelss. Wonder if this was done deliberately or was was/is an driver error.
All peeps with ATi cards on the board please try this. Rename FEAR to something else like fearme.exe or dukeforever.exe :lol: and run the inbuilt benchmark. This is known to increase performance upto 30% on all Ati cards. Posting some benchies that were ran by some other people.

With a x1800 Xt
Code: 
Min FPS: 41
Avg FPS: 66
Max FPS: 117

Then I renamed the exe to test.exe and ran the 
performance test twice, the lowest I got was:

Min FPS: 43
Avg FPS: 75
Max FPS: 172

X700 pro
Code: 
fear.exe
min 38
med 59
max 104
both runs were the same

copy of fear.exe
min 35 35
med 75 75
max 129 131

X850XT PE, FEAR v1.02 retail
CAT 5.10 w/CCC, AI = standard
Code: 
fear.exe
1280x960
27
47
83

1600x1200
17
32
58

fearme.exe
1280x960
29
54
124

1600x1200
22
38
82

Source
 
Quad Master said:
This is really funny , must say.

donno how does renaming a file improve performance.

Gr8 Find Blade.
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drivers put on optimisations according to the game exe. When you start fear.exe the game is detected and the optimisation is applied through the drivers. Renaming the .exe doesnt apply the optimisation or unoptimisation in this case.

To me this looks really shady. i hope monolith has screwed around with the gold code to make ATi look bad. Or well it could be a case of bad optimisations :no: .

@Sunny: If you have the game please try it. :)
 
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