Quote Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD View Post
Many of you are talking about "cheats" like it was a bad thing but I actually concider it as a good thing to get extra performance if you can do it without noticing the difference while gaming and not studying a zoomed in screenshot. I'd actually go as far as encourage both Nvidia and AMD to find ways of doing different technics differently for better performance as long as there's no noticable IQ difference without analyzing it more closely.
..why not just use bilinear or trilinear filtering then? It's like you're saying that it is good that the companies FORCE your AFx16 to trilinear.

@Carfax: Is there any info whether tweaks like that have appeared recently, or have they been around for long?