Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
Yeah 4870x2 was terrible when it came out driver wise... crisis was an artifact adventure... no idea if its better now
In my experience nv is doing a slightly better job with dual gpu drivers but I'd still prefer a single gpu, hill
The opposite has happened with nVidia

I am a fairly happy GTX 295 Single PCB user (yes I know it is getting long in it's teeth, but it plays well for what I need @ 1920*1200 with amounts of eye candy).

Sadly Crysis is in a state of crises in any Forceware driver released after 190. The game is a flickery and artifacted mess. There is a 5 page discussion on the issue here on the nVidia forums

I am currently playing Crysis (for nostalgia's sake) and to actually play it I had to roll back to Forceware 186.18 otherwise the game would be flickering all of the time and hitching/stuttering.

Now it is silky smooth @ 1920*1200 Very High.

My only fear is that the GTX 595 (a likely replacement for the 295) may suffer the same fate where a year and a bit onwards drivers will start to significantly cripple the card in order to try and force the users hand to upgrade.

Lets all remember that the GTX 295 was fairly close in performance to the 480 and those like me saw little need if any to sidegrade (perhaps even almost downgrade due to the thermal issues of the 480).

If nVidia CAN pull of a gem of a card on a Single PCB AND back it up with decent drivers I would perhaps retire the 295 for it as I do have 2 DX11 titles which I cannot use any DX11 effects on.

Another GTX 295 user has uploaded a video of just how poor recent nVidia drivers are with Crysis

John