Caporegime
- Joined
- 8 Jul 2003
- Posts
- 30,063
- Location
- In a house
Yeah it does, when you run the installer with a previous set on, they get detected and removed, before it then installs the new.
-
Competitor rules
Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.
ATI drivers, reliable?
- Thread starter leejd
- Start date
Yeah it does, when you run the installer with a previous set on, they get detected and removed, before it then installs the new.
ditto
People have been telling me they've "not had any problems" since the Radeon 64 DDR days but I've always experienced the opposite whenever I gave them the benefit of the doubt, which must be about half a dozen times over the years.
I recently tried a 4870x2 and the first game I tried (WoW) had a bug with flickering shadows and I couldn't force v-sync in Sims 3 either, not to mention no game profiles.
By comparison I find NVidia drivers simple and do everything I need and I am rarely waiting for updated drivers.
I tend to go through a lot of hardware finding what I like best and that's my experience.
I recently tried a 4870x2 and the first game I tried (WoW) had a bug with flickering shadows and I couldn't force v-sync in Sims 3 either, not to mention no game profiles.
By comparison I find NVidia drivers simple and do everything I need and I am rarely waiting for updated drivers.
I tend to go through a lot of hardware finding what I like best and that's my experience.
Funny how your problems all of a sudden come right out of the hotfix thread.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18045361
you make comments but no mention of personal experience with the issues in that thread from you which im sure you would have said so if that was the case.
At the end of the day NV & ATI drivers are about the same & the roll of the dice is different for each user.
Last edited:
Man of Honour
- Joined
- 17 Oct 2007
- Posts
- 3,871
The majority of people won't have any problems with either NVIDIA or ATI drivers. The people that complain that they're having problems with drivers will be in the minority. Though, it can give people the illusion that this isn't the case since they will make themselves vocally heard as a lot of people do if they're aren't happy with something. People don't tend to say much when they're happy with a particular piece of hardware and / or software but you will certainly hear from them if they're aren't happy. You also have to take into account that people that say they're having problems with drivers, the problem may not even be with the drivers itself but due to a conflict somewhere else in the system.
In what way? Seems fine to me. I have been running 2 screens from it.
Associate
- Joined
- 24 Aug 2009
- Posts
- 156
I can only echo what others have said really
Havent had any/many problems with ATI drivers
If i have they have been fixed in a hotfix fairly soon and so no need to cause a problem or worry
Havent had any/many problems with ATI drivers
If i have they have been fixed in a hotfix fairly soon and so no need to cause a problem or worry
must admit i'd forgotten about this when proclaiming my 3 years free of ati trouble earlier. it is quite a major issue.
basically you get random driver crashes with vista aero enabled on dual screens. it randomly happens across all cards and any drivers since vista came out. (well up until last year at least- after i got rid of my 2nd screen i didn't keep upto date with what was going on)
i think the problem may be if you have 1 dvi and 1 vga monitor. i think people with dual dvi are ok.
it has to be a driver problem because putting load on the card makes no difference. you can be gaming for hours and it's fine. then bam it'll happen on the windows desktop doing nothing. i simply ran vista without aero to get around it. pretty annoying though. obvious xp is unaffected and i have no idea about 7....
Associate
- Joined
- 8 Jan 2007
- Posts
- 139
must admit i'd forgotten about this when proclaiming my 3 years free of ati trouble earlier. it is quite a major issue.
basically you get random driver crashes with vista aero enabled on dual screens. it randomly happens across all cards and any drivers since vista came out. (well up until last year at least- after i got rid of my 2nd screen i didn't keep upto date with what was going on)
i think the problem may be if you have 1 dvi and 1 vga monitor. i think people with dual dvi are ok.
it has to be a driver problem because putting load on the card makes no difference. you can be gaming for hours and it's fine. then bam it'll happen on the windows desktop doing nothing. i simply ran vista without aero to get around it. pretty annoying though. obvious xp is unaffected and i have no idea about 7....
I've never used Vista... But I've never had any problems like this on Windows 7 or XP. Must just be a Vista issue.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 8 Jul 2003
- Posts
- 30,063
- Location
- In a house
Trouble is though both have their problems, just look at the amound of slating Nvidia's 190 drivers are getting, everyones going back to the 180's, appaling them, so what are you going to do when you eventually get a problem with your Nvidia's, you can't go back to ATi as you already tried them and got a prob, so you'll be buggered :/
Soldato
- Joined
- 12 Jan 2006
- Posts
- 2,547
+1
I also used vista for a with 2 displays (1 dvi+1 hdmi) with no issues also (3870x2 though)
nvidia are going thorugh a bad time with there 190's series of drivers...many many people are complaining and dropping back to the older 180 series of drivers....however if the current trend of good driver issues continues from ATI then i may be tempted to the Dark side on my DX11 GPU purchase...for the pure reason that ATI is cheaper and offers the same if not more performance wise...providing things stay ok with DX 11 i may jump ship...