Return of the See-Through Drivers

The alert folks at CS-Nation noticed something noted in a recent review of the ECS AG400 SiS Xabre 400 video card (at the bottom of the page) where it's revealed that the drivers offered with this card feature the return of the dreaded see-through walls feature that basically offers ample opportunity for cheating in games. You may recall that ASUS got themselves in hot water with their own similar cheat-enabled drivers (story) which they subsequently retracted after gamers expressed their outrage (story). To add a rare editorial comment: We don't see any good reason for adding such features other than to gain market share they would not be able to earn based on their product's more legitimate strengths, and wholeheartedly throw our support behind this Remove The ECS Cheating Drivers Petition as well as any other reasonable efforts we hear of to show ECS the error in doing something based on their own perceived self interest that is so clearly detrimental to the interests of gamers and the gaming community.
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Why not do this... Jul 12, 2002, 18:21
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Some savvy open source developers could release some server code for integration into games that tests client drivers for this feature (by whatever feasible methods) and disallows connections from clients using drivers that support it. If each developer makes this part of the official server code base then it would shut out anyone who wanted to cheat (could even be an option). People possessing these drivers would then have to disable the feature (if possible) or realise that they'll need to write their own servers if they want to cheat amongst themselves.

Seems like this would be the best route on a per game basis and would send a signal to companies that this type of driver is not acceptable for gaming, though clearly it might have uses in development.

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