On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org wrote:
One note of caution is that video card manufacturers have been known to blatantly cheat on these tests by rigging their drivers with special hacks when they detect 3dmark is running. As far as I know the code may still be there.
Since the Linux drivers probably don't have these hacks, if they are indeed still enabled you wouldn't get an Apples:Apples comparison even on the same hardware.
Scott, please bottom post on wine mailing lists.
As for the driver hacks, you might try renaming the executable (e.g., 3dmark.exe ->3dmarktest.exe). Some of those hacks only check the executable name, and renaming the executable restores the 'real' behavior. Quake 3 was well known for this..