james.wired
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I think ATi's drivers are fine now. And have been improving tremendously on top of that. The whole "ATi is all problems" argument in my opinion is old old old.
Was it not Nvidia drivers that caused the majority of BSOD's in Vista early on?But then we can go further and talk about how ATi's support for both Vista and Win7 is lame while nVidia's has been stellar. nVidia has had 1 driver release that was bummed. ATi is nothing but problems for a lot of people in both OS's since XP.
RV670 was already their first step, and it was a very significant one. I'd say they already have recovered since RV770. Evergreen series was just extremely well executed.It is not the end of the world. So what nVidia has had a bad stroke of luck with some stuff recently. ATi is STILL trying to recover from that "1 bad generation" that they had after the AMD purchase.
Of course they will recover.nVidia will have to go through the pains of it as well. Every company does.
Microsoft is in a unique situation where even if they put out a bad product, they can still sit relatively fine for years.Heck Microsoft had to recover TWICE from bad publicity. Windows ME and Vista. Now look at them. Sitting high with Win7 buzzing about and everyone happy as can be.
But then we can go further and talk about how ATi's support for both Vista and Win7 is lame while nVidia's has been stellar. nVidia has had 1 driver release that was bummed. ATi is nothing but problems for a lot of people in both OS's since XP.
It is not the end of the world. So what nVidia has had a bad stroke of luck with some stuff recently. ATi is STILL trying to recover from that "1 bad generation" that they had after the AMD purchase. nVidia will have to go through the pains of it as well. Every company does. Name me 1 single company that has not had a stroke of bad luck that they had to rebound from.
Heck if the statements are true and history is repeated then what has happened with Ati should tell people that nVidia will come back from this with a vengeance.
Heck Microsoft had to recover TWICE from bad publicity. Windows ME and Vista. Now look at them. Sitting high with Win7 buzzing about and everyone happy as can be.
Why not get two 5970's? they're significantly faster and even use a bit less power.I've complained a lot about Nvidia Drivers lately, but. There's always a but
I have found that my problem was actually with the updated Realtek Network Driver. Roll the Realtek Driver back to the original Windows 7 Driver and I am again the Fastest in this Kingdom. Or I will be with (2) GTX 480's
And I dare one and all to Defeat me. I am the King
ATI multi-gpu scaling sucks and I like using drivers that support all the features of the card. I really could care less about how much power is required and I'll manage to regulate the heat, on air (and I'll amaze everyone).
But then we can go further and talk about how ATi's support for both Vista and Win7 is lame while nVidia's has been stellar. nVidia has had 1 driver release that was bummed. ATi is nothing but problems for a lot of people in both OS's since XP.
So you can go on and on about every single aspect of this. Am i saying that nVidia is perfect? By no means.
It is not the end of the world. So what nVidia has had a bad stroke of luck with some stuff recently. ATi is STILL trying to recover from that "1 bad generation" that they had after the AMD purchase. nVidia will have to go through the pains of it as well. Every company does. Name me 1 single company that has not had a stroke of bad luck that they had to rebound from.
Heck if the statements are true and history is repeated then what has happened with Ati should tell people that nVidia will come back from this with a vengeance.
Heck Microsoft had to recover TWICE from bad publicity. Windows ME and Vista. Now look at them. Sitting high with Win7 buzzing about and everyone happy as can be.
Whats wrong with catalyst? it lets you set up custom 3d profiles for games, which is really handy, especially if you have a game that for some random reason doesn't support AA or AF.