[hurtigioll]

gpu drivers detect games, among other thing by looking at executable names

then driver "optimizes" behavior, sometimes dishonestly (reducing precision), sometimes honestly (working around game engine stupidity)

[limflick]

Couldn't that also cause glitches since optimizations meant for HL2 might not work for, say San Andreas? I understand some optimizations might be universal but I can't help but think about unexpected behavior.

[ChocolateGod]

Yes.

A lot of people use Nvidia profile inspector to enable reBar on all games and claim that Nvidia is purposely holding back performance, but doing this causes many games to crash.

[tester756]

Who's problem is this?

Nvidia probably doesnt officially say anything about this and 99.9% of people do not rename process name

[account42]

It's definitely Nvidia's problem if this breaks something. Nothing in the D3D/OpenGL specs says that you can (not) use certain executable names.

[sidewndr46]

Yeah, I'm sure NVIDIA is going to get around to "fixing" a decade's old industry standard for something that contributes less than 10% of their revenue.

[hurtigioll]

of course they do.

nvidia even has an official api for a game to identify itself so they dont need to look at executable name

[limflick]

Phrasing, I wasn't blaming anyone, just curious about the technicalities.