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ati drivers

Ease said:
I've had half a dozen ATI cards, and never had a blip of trouble. So be quiet fanboy. The gaming industry has enough experience nowadays that there is little trouble with either the Nvidia or the ATI drivers.
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Don't feed the trolls, let the mods deal with them.
 
Not as polished as NVidia drivers that's for sure, no game profiles and if you want to force v-sync you have to mess around installing 3rd party applications, sometimes before the login screen the fan ramps up to what sounds like 100% for some odd reason.

It's just lots of little niggles rather than them being catastrophically bad.
 
mmj_uk said:
Not as polished as NVidia drivers that's for sure, no game profiles and if you want to force v-sync you have to mess around installing 3rd party applications, sometimes before the login screen the fan ramps up to what sounds like 100% for some odd reason.

It's just lots of little niggles rather than them being catastrophically bad.
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I will repeat the reason for no forced V-Sync in Vista in CCC was because of MS restrictions in Vista that ATI adhered to but NV did not.
 
mmj_uk said:
Not as polished as NVidia drivers that's for sure, no game profiles and if you want to force v-sync you have to mess around installing 3rd party applications, sometimes before the login screen the fan ramps up to what sounds like 100% for some odd reason.

It's just lots of little niggles rather than them being catastrophically bad.
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In your Opinion.
 
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I have used both Ati and nVidia drivers for many many years now and to be honest I have never had any problems at all with either set of drivers.

The only thing I will say is a few years ago ( ati 1900 ) era there were problems with waiting for drivers to support these cards when they were first released. Apart from that no problems at all.

I am currently running ( on ati front ) 5870, 3870 crossfire, 1950 agp and have no problems with any drivers on these setups.
 
I have had two NV cards in my time, a 8800GT and GTX260 and the drivers were fine, yeah the odd set brought some bugs and glitches but overall very good. The majority of my cards have been with ATI and its the same story, the odd broken feature or in game glitch but overall they are great and especially now with my 5870 in W7, even the beta drivers in a new OS for new hardware are rock solid.
 
I have avoided ATI for about 5 years after 2 horrible experience with drivers and hardware. Tried a 4890 this time and no problems whatsoever, to be honest all the fuss and I probably could not tell the difference if someone stuck an nvidia card in there.
 
Never had issue with ati drivers apart from getting 3850 cards to work in crossfire on a p35 board.

Rarely had to change drivers when I had a x1900xt or this 4870.

Just added a 4850 to my 4870 in mixed crossfire and it is flawless.

Love it.
 
Thanks Loadsa, just had a look at that. Does it auto set the profiles when you launch a game as it doesn't mention it on the Guru3d page?
 
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