ASUS cheating drivers... anyone care?

[old.Black Monk]

I'm sure y'all probably saw this already, but in case you haven't...

http://www.petitiononline.com/badasus/petition.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/50/18870.html

http://www.rivastation.com/cgi-bin/show/show.pl?754

Basically, ASUS is screwing just about every online gaming community in order to try to get sales. They are screwing their market, but I guess if people don't sign petitions or raise a stink, they won't give a shit.

Bear in mind that they did this once before and public outcry forced them to remove these "features" from later drivers. Looks like they tried to sneak them back in, now it's up to the online communities again.

 

[Ch3tan]

Do you know what the most anoying thing is? The ASUS gf3 based cards look the bogs bollox, shame I am boycotting the company for shear stupidity.

 

[Moving Target]

And how are you gonna do that?

 

[Ch3tan]

by not buying their products? it really was a no brainer.

 

[Wij]

Originally posted by Ch3tan
Do you know what the most anoying thing is? The ASUS gf3 based cards look the bogs bollox, shame I am boycotting the company for shear stupidity.

Actually I find ASUS grapics cards overpriced. They're pretty much all the same between manufacturers (cos nVidia won't allow em to use the chip in other ways) so go for a nice cheap(ish) one is my motto.

Still quite like their mobos but Abit are great too. I'll use those.

 

[old.Black Monk]

Best that could have been expected:

http://viper.aq2zone.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002563.html

ASUS Driver Retraction

Dear sir,
Thanks for your kindly reminding! To respect the preferences of the majority of our customers and users around the world, ASUS will disable “see-through” capability in all future graphics drivers. Although ASUS did not officially release the “see-through” feature in the current 11.01, 12.00 and 12.10 drivers, this feature-enhancing codes were enabled by non-ASUS programmers and posted on various unauthorized websites.

ASUS recognizes that these features may offer unfair competitive advantages for some users and will take actions to curtail the use of these drivers. All codes related to these features will be removed in all future versions (Version 12.40 and up) to prevent any further tampering that may enable “see-through”. ASUS will also provide a way for web hosts to detect and disable “see-through” functionality.

How to Detect and Disable “See-through” Mode
This method of detection is intended for web hosts of online games.
Web hosts should enumerate all keys (0000, 0001, etc.) under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesClassDisplay" and do the following patches.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesClassDisplayXXXXUI]
"DisableD3dWireframe"=dword:00000001
"DisableOglWireframe"=dword:00000001
"DisableOglTransparent"=dword:00000001
We respect the opinions of all our customers and thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.

Best Regards,

Kent Chien
Multimedia Business Dept.
Sales & Marketing Division
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.

 

[]SK[]

if you have to use this card to be good at a game dont bother playing

i like to show ppl some stuff i know

like floaty sg, ac crowbar and rocket crowbar but ffs is it really possible to play properly with these cheats?

i got hold of the speed cheat once and had a quick blast with it. Great fun but never did it on public servers.

almost as bad as spys jumping into floors in respawn