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Yeah its a big turn around now, Nvidia used to be the dogs at drivers, and ATi were crap, my how times change. 
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ATI Release XP & Vista Driver Hotfix For 4850
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Same here, we went ATi at the right time, as the 9800pro was when the drivers turned around with the Catalyst's starting.
One thing i missed when i went back to Nv, the cracking driver support, you don't have to fanny on hunting through chinese websites, and modding drivers for their cards, can't wait to get back.
One thing i missed when i went back to Nv, the cracking driver support, you don't have to fanny on hunting through chinese websites, and modding drivers for their cards, can't wait to get back.
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I am not sure how they compaired to nvidia in the gf1 and 2 days as i never really know many who had any, most friends had gf1 to gf3 when i used to go to lans i think the 9700 pro came out and a few friends got them and i got the 9800 pro when that came out so missed the 7*** and 8*** series
Vista SP1 was not installed.
GRID seems to be getting multi GPU now without the renaming.
Nice one
. So much for the lack of support for Crossfire that I seen someone report earlier in another thread 
. Wasn't that meant to have been from Codemasters directly?.Regardless, you don't have to mess around to get x-fire working which is great. Is there any other titles you have installed that you've had to do the workaround for?. If so, then why not see if any others have been fixed?.
ATi showing Nvidia up again with driver support, first they release an official WHQL driver for their 4800's before the cards are even out, and now they have released another driver, what a start eh, 4850's only been out 1 day, 4870 not even out yet, Nvidia OWNED.
Regarding the good support for ATI. Just a normal days work Loadsa
.Same here, we went ATi at the right time, as the 9800pro was when the drivers turned around with the Catalyst's starting.
One thing i missed when i went back to Nv, the cracking driver support, you don't have to fanny on hunting through chinese websites, and modding drivers for their cards, can't wait to get back.
Yeah i think if i had been on my 21" crt then it wouldn't be so bad but hdtv was/is a pain at times with my 320, i just feel that i never sure if nvidia will bother to fix a problem in any time soon with a new set of drivers.
Ati has had problems and still does but i do feel with monthly updates if i got a problem it could be fixed in the monthly update and not wait 6 months or god know when with nvidia and that is my biggest gripe,it is not the hardware but drivers.
If i go over to ati and it looks like i will, i will moan about them if they slack off with their drivers.
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Nice one
Regardless, you don't have to mess around to get x-fire working which is great. Is there any other titles you have installed that you've had to do the workaround for?. If so, then why not see if any others have been fixed?.
Regarding the good support for ATI. Just a normal days work Loadsa
It sure is.
Well I've used or set up quite a few lower end Radeons at some point or another:
Radeon 7500, 8500, 9000, 9200SE, and the original 64MB DDR version (which is basically what the 7500 is based off of).
the 8500 was ment to be a good card i recall but never tried one, what would that have been up against the gf 3 or 4?
Geforce 3, but the Ti500 was quicker. Then the Geforce 4 Ti showed up, and ATI was in the back seat for at least 12 months until the 9700 Pro release in August 2002. Before that the 8500 had been crap because it only had supersampling AA which was too slow vs the Geforce 3 and 4's multisampling method.
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Only thing ATI need to do now is release something to counter nvidia's new physx drivers.
AMD/ATI have just jumped into bed with Havok so that could be the start of something
.The Ti200 was a lower clocked version of the standard Geforce 3, by the way. I think it was deliberately done to make it seem more appealing to OEMs
I put it over the top, it auto un-installed the older drivers anyway.
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A bit of information about the hotfix
Have to admit one of the major things I miss from going from an ATI card (x1900XT) to a 8800GT is the monthly updated drivers that work. Over the months I've got seriously tired of Nvidia- rubbish drivers that only ever seem to support the latest card and basically say to hell with the rest unless you mod and the the various dirty little tricks (crysis driver etc).
AS I have never got a decent driver for my 8800GT for the games I play - I'm hoping the HD4870 will carry on the great work the HD4850 did and allow me to ditch nvidia's hardware and **** poor software
AS I have never got a decent driver for my 8800GT for the games I play - I'm hoping the HD4870 will carry on the great work the HD4850 did and allow me to ditch nvidia's hardware and **** poor software
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AMD/ATI have just jumped into bed with Havok so that could be the start of something
Yeah, and they can go one better than Nvidia, as they can also do their PhysX, so AMD can do both, where as Nvidia can only do their own PhysX. OWNED.
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