Quote Originally Posted by RoadconeTuning View Post
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)