Posted on Friday, January 26 2018 @ 10:29 CET by Thomas De MaesschalckIn the demonstration, Ronaldo reached a total score of 12638 and graphics score of 13278 in Time Spy. By applying the settings he increased the score to 12951 / 13800 respectively.
He explained that this trick does not always mean better score, it depends on a software, but Futuremark’s, Unigine’s and Allbenchmark’s (Catzilla) benchmarks seem to be affected.
Futuremark confirms the loophole and has temporarily closed its Hall of Fame. The company is working on a fix, which should arrive in the near future.
This method was indeed reported to us by GALAX before and based on that report we currently have internally implemented and tested a fix that is now in our release pipeline.Via: VideoCardz
I don’t have a solid public release date we can commit to at this point, but it should be in the near future.
As for detecting this cheat with previously submitted results – when this was originally reported by Galax we were able to manually distinguish the example boosted results from normal runs they made by comparing the detected GPU clock speeds during the benchmark run to the frame rates, so it’s not completely undetectable although it does pass the current automatic check. Existing results will be checked on a case-by-case basis as deemed necessary and invalidated if found suspicious.
Going forward, our Hall of Fame will require this both this System Info update and also a client update as soon as they are released.
As this method has now been made public it is probable that no scores will be accepted into the Halls of Fame until the new version with the fix is released.
