The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

[Decami]

Had a 4870X2, 8800GTX, 8800GTS, 8600GT, and X1600XT in this rig at one time or another, never reinstalled the OS once and have had no problems other than bugs introduced by programs such as the "AMD GPU Clock Tool" or whatever it was called (it over-rides fan speeds and/or temperatures sensors).

i was bout to say, WTH clean windows install every time you switch graphics card companies my god, whats the world come to, you think we have come a little further than that with software development.

I haven't had an ATI card in a long time, was thinking just nabbing a 5870 until Nvidia gets their freaking crap out, im been hearing about driver issues and am pulling back on that now.

be honest, Nvidia side isn't all perfect. Theres really no problems though to most, aside from scaling being broken when you update a driver. which drives me absolutely nuts. you cant scale custom resolutions no matter what you do, and im a big custom res user.

had this problem before quite a few drivers back and spent 3 days trying to clean every remnant of the old driver and finally got it working again.

now with the recent drivers, same problem, same process of attacking and deleting everything Nvidia on the entire machine didn't fix it this time, rather aggravating, if anyone knows the root of this issue, god lemme know.

[Rock&Roll]

Theres really no problems though to most, aside from scaling being broken when you update a driver. which drives me absolutely nuts. you cant scale custom resolutions no matter what you do, and im a big custom res user.

Yup. Tell me about it

[TurboDiv]

Im craving for a new FERMI pic. I need to put a fresh image for my fantasies.

[zalbard]

This time he even missed the wood screws ;-)

Must be fake then!!!

[saaya]

boooooo... the original tesla card looked much better :/
it was all shiny and silver painted... this one is just cheap plain old black plastic

[ubuntu83]

boooooo... the original tesla card looked much better :/
it was all shiny and silver painted... this one is just cheap plain old black plastic

you mean to say the original fake tesla.

[Open1Your1Eyes0]

Im craving for a new FERMI pic. I need to put a fresh image for my fantasies.

See Here

[GoldenTiger]

Must be fake then!!!

[ElSel10]

Most likely it is a false positive. Nod32 does not pick up anything.

[saaya]

you mean to say the original fake tesla.

yeah, my bad...

[Jamesrt2004]

Same.

When I went from my 8800Ultra to 4870X2, I never fully cleaned my HDD from the NV drivers and I had nothing but problems.

Clean OS install and Not a single problem with ATI, it's even my first ATI card.

If I install a new ati driver I uninstall the old one in safemode and remove any trace of it, then install the new one. Still no problems.

+1 for a computer enthusiast forum... some people are sometimes a tad slow.. :/

[ElSel10]

I'd like to add, I have switched from ATI to Nvidia and vice versa several times, and never had any driver problems. All I do is use the official driver uninstaller before installing the new card. Then I shut down the PC, put in the new card, and install the corresponding driver. Never an issue. I think all the driver problems people have actually stem from things like DriverSweeper.

[Rock&Roll]

IMO, the most important thing is to clean out the registry entries. I'll do this manually if I see old keys didn't get cleaned out properly by the uninstaller.

HKLM\System\ControlSet001\Control\Video

From there, anything that has Standard VGA, ATI or Nvidia stuff listed I delete the entire root key for. When done there are usually 3 or 4 system keys left that need to be left alone (netmeeting and others) Repeat for ControlSet002\..... . After that, it should automatically disappear from CurrentControlSet.....

This has fixed errors for me in the past. Works great with Win7 and WinXP. I've had this give me trouble in Vista though.

[RoadconeTuning]

Not what i wanted to read. But I'm not surprised. It saddens me, as ATI did have a stretch many years back that they were better than NV at driver support.

When I read what you just said, It fuels my hope that GT300 and nvidia's multi-monitor tech is miles better than what ATI can offer with the 5870. It would make my decision easier.

when are you talking about? ATI has always had terrible driver support... they've basically always had better hardware but the drivers couldnt be dealt with... im talking back as far as before the 9800XT's... things worked but had few features with the X800 stuff and recently things have been failtacular... i'll let you know tonight if i still think that... going from eVGA 9600GT KO to HIS 5850

[eric66]

damn you can't believe how much i wonder how bad is atis driver i think it will make me buy one of 5xxx series card

[Rock&Roll]

when are you talking about? ATI has always had terrible driver support... they've basically always had better hardware but the drivers couldnt be dealt with... im talking back as far as before the 9800XT's... things worked but had few features with the X800 stuff and recently things have been failtacular... i'll let you know tonight if i still think that... going from eVGA 9600GT KO to HIS 5850

Emphasis on many years back. And not for a long stretch of time or anything. Lets not pretend nVidia's always been perfect.

It is my recollection that when they started their monthly driver release schedule it actually meant something. And nVidia was caught way off guard. I remember waiting 3-4 months between driver releases from nVidia when I had my 7800GTX...even though I knew they needed updated.

Fast forward to today, and you wind up with ATI sticking to their month release schedule. But as their twitter post implied, 10.1 was really just lip service and the real driver update will be 10.2 and 10.3...

In any case, nVidia is certainly in better standing with drivers these days. They release drivers when they have to and seem to be fairly on the ball with things. The worst experience I had there lately was getting a driver for Win7 that didn't suck. I was using 185.20 forever until the 195.xx betas were released. Whereas ATI seems perfectly happy to keep bugs in their drivers for years on end (referring to the HDTV over HDMI issues people are having)

[mibo]

Could somebody please remove all this driver talk.

FERMI/GF100 is the topic.

(yes, my post can be deleted, too)

[clayton]

I find it hard to replicate the so call "ATI crappy drivers" experience.

[GoldenTiger]

Could somebody please remove all this driver talk.

FERMI/GF100 is the topic.

(yes, my post can be deleted, too)

We are saying why we are looking forward or not to Fermi. It is 100% on topic, I say complain to a mod if you truly feel that way though rather than play pretend.

[DosDuoNo]

Could somebody please remove all this driver talk.

FERMI/GF100 is the topic.

(yes, my post can be deleted, too)

i totaly agree, i keep checking in thinking this thread has updated news, only to see another 'ATI driver was bad to me' post.

maybe im missing something here, heres the title of the thread,

The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

heres the last post,

I find it hard to replicate the so call "ATI crappy drivers" experience.

talk about derailing a thread, this is so far off its on another planet now.

and this is no slight against the last poster, his reply was just an example of the last 20.

[ethomaz]

On Facebook now.

NVIDIA Fun Fact of the Week: GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 will be the names of the first two GPUs shipped based on our new GF100 chip!

http://www.facebook.com/NVIDIA?ref=nf

[Sumanji]

[GoldenTiger]

On Facebook now.

NVIDIA Fun Fact of the Week: GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 will be the names of the first two GPUs shipped based on our new GF100 chip!

http://www.facebook.com/NVIDIA?ref=nf

Is it out yet? Is it out yet? Is it out yet?

[shoopdawoopa]

So im guessing this is because the low end cards will be named in the 300s like the http://www.nvidia.com/object/product...ce_310_us.html ?

[LordEC911]

So im guessing this is because the low end cards will be named in the 300s like the http://www.nvidia.com/object/product...ce_310_us.html ?

Because those are G200 variants.
A real derivative for GF100 will have the lower GTX3x0 designation.