AMD: You'll be pleasantly surprised

[soundood]

It's known facts that ATI drivers are 100% utter crap and can't play 3D, and since the ATI logo is red the cards can at randomly burst into flames for no apparent reasons, and their multi-gpu scaling actually scales down, while Nvidia is Green so obviously alot more powerefficient and good for the environment, also their Driver support is nothing but flawless and their multi-GPU solution has over 100% scaling

very well said, i would probaly went with an ATI card years ago, but i am fed up hearing

"catalyst 9.'insert version' released, hope it fixes my 'insert problem', ohh no it doesnt, maybe i will just 'insert tempory solution' in the meantime, till they release another version.

you just never hear that with Nvidia, and for me, driver nonsense i cant stand, there is no excuse for it.

[ToTTenTranz]

very well said, i would probaly went with an ATI card years ago, but i am fed up hearing

"catalyst 9.'insert version' released, hope it fixes my 'insert problem', ohh no it doesnt, maybe i will just 'insert tempory solution' in the meantime, till they release another version.

you just never hear that with Nvidia, and for me, driver nonsense i cant stand, there is no excuse for it.

lol you didn't realize he was actually making fun of people like you?


wow.. there are still people who believe there's a discernible difference in stability/quality between nVidia and ATI drivers..
That's like.. still believing the Earth is plane.. it's so 2001..

[ExodusC]

I'm looking forward to see how Evergreen performs.

As far as the whole ATI drivers thing goes, I've had a few minor problems in my time using a 4850/4870, some which were fixed, and others were minor quirks. One of such is being unable to enable aspect ratio locking under Windows 7. I really hope it's fixed in the Catalyst 9.7 release.

Minor stuff, but not something that would make me stop using my 4870 for, in exchange for having to pay more for a card of the same performance.

[Xello]

wow.. there are still people who believe there's a discernible difference in stability/quality between nVidia and ATI drivers..
That's like.. still believing the Earth is plane.. it's so 2001..

Yes there are, that you haven't necessarily had problems doesn't mean other people haven't

[cegras]

Yes there are, that you haven't necessarily had problems doesn't mean other people haven't

The exact same thing can be said for nvidia drivers (assuming you mean ATI's stigma for making bad drivers). I've had nothing but serious trouble dealing with nvidia.

Symptoms:
- L4D borked for a while with 'big bang' drivers
- System would lock, and graphical corruption ensues (source games)
- Upon quiting to desktop, doing anything causes 100% CPU and the OS will freeze (mouse still able to move) for 10+ seconds

[Xello]

The exact same thing can be said for nvidia drivers (assuming you mean ATI's stigma for making bad drivers).

I mean both, as per the quote:

difference in stability/quality between nVidia and ATI drivers

If you ask me, and this is just my humble opinion, it's nonsense to disregard other people's problems with company X's hardware/software on the sole basis that you haven't experienced those problems yourself.

For the record yeah ATI software was a nightmare for me, but life's too short to go on about it on a forum forever, if it doesn't work don't use it - get something else and move on.

If that doesn't work either? Buy a console

[ToTTenTranz]

If you ask me, and this is just my humble opinion, it's nonsense to disregard other people's problems with company X's hardware/software on the sole basis that you haven't experienced those problems yourself.

For the record yeah ATI software was a nightmare for me, but life's too short to go on about it on a forum forever, if it doesn't work don't use it - get something else and move on.

If that doesn't work either? Buy a console

There's a difference between:

"I've had problems with ATI/nVidia drivers, some of which weren't solved while I had the graphics card".
^^^ Plausible, right? Happened to me with both nVidia and ATI cards.

and


"ATI/nVidia drivers suckz0rs!!! I had two gazillion driver BUGZZ per second with ATI/nVidia cards and when I changed to nVidia/ATI everything got PEEERFECT! Zero BUGZ! And performance went up 2000%, the weather got better, my car suddenly has 200hp more than before and my girlfriend likes my sexual performance again!!!"
^^^ Unfortunately, this what you see more often in forums..

[Xello]

"ATI/nVidia drivers suckz0rs!!! I had two gazillion driver BUGZZ per second with ATI/nVidia cards and when I changed to nVidia/ATI everything got PEEERFECT! Zero BUGZ! And performance went up 2000%, the weather got better, my car suddenly has 200hp more than before and my girlfriend likes my sexual performance again!!!"
^^^ Unfortunately, this what you see more often in forums..

Sadly you are correct

[i found nemo]

"ATI/nVidia drivers suckz0rs!!! I had two gazillion driver BUGZZ per second with ATI/nVidia cards and when I changed to nVidia/ATI everything got PEEERFECT! Zero BUGZ! And performance went up 2000%, the weather got better, my car suddenly has 200hp more than before and my girlfriend likes my sexual performance again!!!"

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[Final8ty]

The pinnacle of futility.

[BababooeyHTJ]

very well said, i would probaly went with an ATI card years ago, but i am fed up hearing

"catalyst 9.'insert version' released, hope it fixes my 'insert problem', ohh no it doesnt, maybe i will just 'insert tempory solution' in the meantime, till they release another version.

you just never hear that with Nvidia, and for me, driver nonsense i cant stand, there is no excuse for it.

Have you used any recent Nvidia driver? I'm also guessing that you don't ever post at Guru3d either. Nvidia drivers have been garbage for a few months now and I remember when they implemented physix there drivers were terrible for months as well.