I’m kind of confused why this is new.
Doesn’t every commercial GPU driver already detect what software is running and then malevolently disable features and change the graphics to pretend to get a few extra scraps of speed?
I was under the impression that this was so widespread that “gamers” would actually whine loudly if the manufacturers display the slightest bit of integrity and make the graphics card actually work correctly.
Like, video game people would get into huge flame wars on the internet because one card is slower at 4x anti aliasing, even though the other card’s driver actually just detected that the game used 4xaa and turned it off.
Never mind that this is transparently evil, impossible to program for, and straight up fraud of course…
