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by orphea 735 days ago
I guess a similar thing is happening with GPU drivers and games.
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CapsAdmin 735 days ago
yes, and drivers (used to at least) check the filename of the exe causing unexpected behaviour like performance degradation or even gains in some cases
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jamesfinlayson 735 days ago
Still now I'd say - Counter-Strike 2's release was foreshadowed by nvidia or ATI having cs2.exe in some config files last year.
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wruza 735 days ago
In cases like benchmarking software, I guess.
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