OC Addiction have thrown up their recent interview with OMEGA DRIVE! Here's a byte or two:
Many of you may already be aware of Nvidia's recent attempts to p*** off the gaming community. The "optimisations" they have implemented for Futuremark's 3DMark2003 synthetic benchmark have already been widely discussed and sometimes even justified by the writer of those articles. However, I don't think anyone can defend Nvidia's latest move. They have contacted OMEGADRIVE of Omega Corner and asked him about his very popular, and helpful, Omega drivers for Nvidia based video cards. They did not ask him to stop making them nor to stop distributing them, but they did contact the owner of Driver Heaven (the host of the Omega Drivers) and ordered them to remove the drivers.
This was quite a shock to OMEGADRIVE as his drivers were not reverse engineered, have not comprised any licensing agreements, and generally improved user's gaming experience. In fact he has helped to solve many people's stability problems with Nvidia based cards in certain games. You'd think Nvidia, like ATI, would be thanking him and encouraging his work.
OCA recently had the opportunity to interview OMEGADRIVE and get his take on the situation
Many of you may already be aware of Nvidia's recent attempts to p*** off the gaming community. The "optimisations" they have implemented for Futuremark's 3DMark2003 synthetic benchmark have already been widely discussed and sometimes even justified by the writer of those articles. However, I don't think anyone can defend Nvidia's latest move. They have contacted OMEGADRIVE of Omega Corner and asked him about his very popular, and helpful, Omega drivers for Nvidia based video cards. They did not ask him to stop making them nor to stop distributing them, but they did contact the owner of Driver Heaven (the host of the Omega Drivers) and ordered them to remove the drivers.
This was quite a shock to OMEGADRIVE as his drivers were not reverse engineered, have not comprised any licensing agreements, and generally improved user's gaming experience. In fact he has helped to solve many people's stability problems with Nvidia based cards in certain games. You'd think Nvidia, like ATI, would be thanking him and encouraging his work.
OCA recently had the opportunity to interview OMEGADRIVE and get his take on the situation
