Anyone Foresee Better ATI Mobo Drivers As A Result From AMD/ATI Merge?

[Judaeus Apella]

Anyone Foresee Better ATI Mobo Drivers As A Result From AMD/ATI Merge?

I was just browsing through Newegg's motherboard customer reviews, cause I wanted to know how bad the complaints still were over DFI mobo drivers and BIOS revisions and how those reviews compared against rival manufacturers. I accidentally opened a review for an overclockers board with ATI drivers, and the first review I saw went on about how ATI mobo drivers always suck, and how they never compare to nVidia drivers no matter what mobo it is.

After reading that, the gears in my head started turning and I remembered how AMD and ATI had recently merged. Do you guys think this new partnership could possibly result in them to working more closely together, resulting in better drivers and BIOS versions for motherboards?

[Spawne32]

personally, no, i think we may actually see a decline in quality from both AMD and ATI in the near future.

[Judaeus Apella]

:( What makes you say that?

[Spawne32]

:( What makes you say that?

the fact that AMD is hurtin now will prolly make them skimp on quality to get the new stuff out quicker, not to mention that merger was probably all business, and if you know anything about big business, its all money and no customer service or quality control.

[Agent11]

I think the drivers will get better, I also think that the chipsets will aswell.

This feels like the calm before the storm, amd&ati are sorting things out, and in six months to a year we will start to see what they are capable of.

They are going to need to do something great to fire back at conroe, otherwise they are going to lose way too much market share.

[Spawne32]

I think the drivers will get better, I also think that the chipsets will aswell.

This feels like the calm before the storm, amd&ati are sorting things out, and in six months to a year we will start to see what they are capable of.

They are going to need to do something great to fire back at conroe, otherwise they are going to lose way too much market share.

well i hope so, because im a big amd fan myself but it just doesnt pay to buy their stuff right now.

[nn_step]

the fact that AMD is hurtin now will prolly make them skimp on quality to get the new stuff out quicker, not to mention that merger was probably all business, and if you know anything about big business, its all money and no customer service or quality control.
:spill: you really forget that they know, improving their current products would financially benefit them.

[Judaeus Apella]

Both arguments are right. It depends on how the company is run, and by who. Either a corporation run by corrupt money grubbing a@@hole sellouts, or honest people with good business sense. ...You know like republican senators verses democratic senators.
















I'm kidding I’m kidding!! :D

[Spawne32]

Both arguments are right. It depends on how the company is run, and by who. Either a corporation run by corrupt money grubbing a@@hole sellouts, or honest people with good business sense. ...You know like republican senators verses democratic senators.

I'm kidding I’m kidding!! :D

oooooooohhhhhhh no, dont start politics lol but yeh, thats exactly what i was getting at.:D

[Sparky]

Both arguments are right. It depends on how the company is run, and by who. Either a corporation run by corrupt money grubbing a@@hole sellouts, or honest people with good business sense. ...You know like republican senators verses democratic senators.

I'm kidding I’m kidding!! :D
So which senators are the honest people and which are the money grubbing ones? :p:
No, DO NOT ANSWER THAT! I'm joking here ;) don't want to turn this into a political discussion.

I see it two ways - AMD hasn't really been one to cheap out on stuff so I don't think they're gonna do that. Also I have an Asus A8R32-MVP board right now with the ATI RD580 chipset and I have no problems with the drivers for it. Heck I don't have trouble with the ATI display drivers either. Never have that I'm aware of except for one version which was really bad - But nVidia has had its share of dud drivers too, nothing new in this arena as it happens to both companies. I do think that the CCC wasn't a great thing to put in the way they did and I think that trimming it down in memory usage wouldn't be a bad thing but I've not had problems with it either....

Maybe I'm just lucky? :confused:

[Judaeus Apella]

I agree. But, CCC? (Dammit... I hate acronyms. LOL)

[Agent11]

catalyst control center...
After a while you look at the screen flicker when it initialises fondly as way of knowing that your computer is done booting up :P

I never really had any problems with it, although I always have had over a gig of ram on any rig that had it installed.

It does take a few seconds to load though.

[Judaeus Apella]

Ahhh... I remember the computers did that back in highschool. Dammit.. now I feel old. :(

[Brother Esau]

ATI drivers will most deffinately improve since AMD & ATI have merged!
I read allot of people saying AMD is not doing anything worth buying and Intel is the King....sheesh....talk about fair weather customers and no loyalty anymore!
You guys who think that AMD is not doing anything worth while and is in trouble since the aquisition of ATI merge think again. That allot of work and a very bold move and also requires time make adjustments and let thing aclimate and reach equal librium. You guys just wait and see AMD/ATI unified is going to own ! But just like anything else Rome was not built in a day and preperation and planning is the key to sucess!:woot:

[Turtle 1]

Ahhh... I remember the computers did that back in highschool. Dammit.. now I feel old. :(
YOU had computers when you went to school?? Time flies when your having fun.

[jimmyz]

the closest our school came to aa computer while i was there was a touch tone phone. i owned a commodore 64 at the time.

[doompc]

I do prefer ATI graphic drivers to nVidia's. It's a lot simplier to configure (specially comparing to the new nVidia panel) and works significanctly better for multi monitor.

It's simply ridiculous the way nvidia drivers can't show the same image in clone mode (you have to select a primary monitor).
And when you maximize a window in extended setup, it stratches to both monitors, with half the image in one and nothing in the other...