ATI cannot make working video drivers

[rintamarotta]

I have to disagree with you on the last part -- image quality is not a personal preference. There are standards for anisotropic filtering, antialiasing, etc.

If ATI card/driver combo doesn't do the filtering with the same quality like the NVIDIA card/driver combo, then ATI doesn't have the right to compare performance and power efficiency directly because their workload is not the same.

Other than the already discussed broken anisotropic filtering, another thing broken with ATI drivers is that you cannot clamp negative LOD bias like you can with NVIDIA. This is a problem for many older games because they use negative LOD bias to make their textures look sharper which causes texture shimmering.

I haveto disagree with what you disagree, infact it is personal preference what you like and what you dont like, to hell with standard's if i like from what i see from screen, no one of us humans see things exactly same way there will be allways small differences beatwean invidual humans and due that we like from different kind of looking images.

For me, some games i play look even better with my Ares HD5870x2 card than with my GTX480 with all details at higest possible and antialiasing and anisotropic filtering set to higest with resolution i play with.

For LOD bias, i dont play older games so i dont really care about it and if i play older games, and if i see problems with image qualities, i just go to my 2nd pc and dont think about it.