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ATI / nVidia Driver Survey

mmj_uk said:
I've been told that ATI drivers work "100%" since around the year 2000 and always have loads of bugs.

You will rarely catch an ATI fanboy complaining about drivers because it's somewhat a raw nerve from the early "Radeon" days when ATI drivers were truly disgraceful.

5xxx series has had loads of problems.
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do you believe everything you've been told?

here's a novel idea (im sure it wont hit off). how about we leave any word that bares any resemblance to the word 'fanboy' out a thread in the graphics forum, for once. I know, it's a bit far fetched isnt it?

you wont catch nvidia 'fanboys' complaining either so where does that leave you?

mmj_uk said:
EDIT: my point being most ATI owners don't seem to be as critical when it comes to driver quality.
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evidence?
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you won't catch ethoir complaining full stop.

my drivers work fine, everytime the only time I ve had issues if AMD know about it and all the other users have ran into the same problem which is very rare.

And I m guessing that is the same story for Nvidia.

thats about all i gotta say about the so called driver quality, programming does break they can't fix everything in one sweep than that fixing may break something else in return and so it goes on, and most of the time its not ATI or Nvs fault its the game devs, particularly with a nearly released game
 
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What are they trying to say?

"Look at us, we don't need to work on our drivers!"

I believe they've made great improvements over the last few months, but they've been playing catch-up imo.
 
I can't say i'm happy with nVidia's schedule for drivers either. They seem to only bother when a new card is out or a new game that they desperately want to beat ATI at, and even then it's often drivers that never make it out of beta.

I can't say it breeds much confidence in them tbh.
 
d_brennen said:
I've used both nV and ATI cards over the years and had little problem with either. Nearly all computer problems stem from the squshy component between desk and chair
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Agreed, i have had many different NV/ATI cards over the years and i've had very few problems at all in games/general use. The last major bug i can remember was in Mafia on my 9800pro which was later fixed in a patch.

Perhaps i'm just lucky, but overall i just can't understand why some people seem to get so many problems. All i ever do is install new drivers directly over the old, i never uninstall or use driver sweeper.

I have had issues with ATI's OpenGL drivers and various other issues in 3D apps, but this has been the case for many years. Hopefully ATI will up their game on that front.

For regular use and gaming though, the drivers from either company are mostly fine in my experience.
 
Iv NEVER had any problems with any drivers (nvidia and ati ) :\ maybe i just don't play around looking for the problems what others report so i can moan aswell..

What i don't know i don't notice.
 
never had an issue here either the last 10 years, any problem with a bit of work can be fixed easily, maybe they should have a "driving test" for users before theyre allowed a computer lol ;)
 
buttkinz said:
never had an issue here either the last 10 years, any problem with a bit of work can be fixed easily, maybe they should have a "driving test" for users before theyre allowed a computer lol ;)
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well..there is the 'European Computer Driving Licence' course. Maybe it should be mandatory learning ;)
 
Tute said:
I can't say i'm happy with nVidia's schedule for drivers either. They seem to only bother when a new card is out or a new game that they desperately want to beat ATI at, and even then it's often drivers that never make it out of beta.

I can't say it breeds much confidence in them tbh.
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Whats wrong with nVidia's driver schedule?

3 releases in March (not including the GPU melting driver)
2 releases in Jan
1 release in Dec
1 release in Nov
2 releases in Oct

How much more frequent do you want them? even the WHQL ones are rarely more than a couple of months apart.
 
Rroff said:
Whats wrong with nVidia's driver schedule?

3 releases in March (not including the GPU melting driver)
2 releases in Jan
1 release in Dec
1 release in Nov
2 releases in Oct

How much more frequent do you want them? even the WHQL ones are rarely more than a couple of months apart.
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can't see anything wrong with that
 
ATI drivers have crossfire problems, grey screen and so on

Nvidia drivers have/had fan of death problem and performance eating on 200 series card.
 
Atleast they pulled the fan of death drivers as soon as they were made aware of the problem and had replacement drivers up within days.

If anything that was a good thing - it seems to have focused attention on the drivers with some improvements in the next couple of releases... heres hoping it will be the trigger for getting the drivers back on track.
 
james.miller said:
do you believe everything you've been told?

here's a novel idea (im sure it wont hit off). how about we leave any word that bares any resemblance to the word 'fanboy' out a thread in the graphics forum, for once. I know, it's a bit far fetched isnt it?

you wont catch nvidia 'fanboys' complaining either so where does that leave you?
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That would mean that they would have to first think that they are making a well reasoned comment as to not use the word, but there is always hope.
 
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To be honest both Ati and nvidia have had bad patches for drivers. Back in the days of the rage Pro the ATi drivers were shockingly back whereas today I've seen no (or very minor) issues at all with both my 4870 or 5870 setups.
Nvidia on the other hand had great drivers back in the days of the TNT2 but recently the drivers have be erratic to say the least to the point where the 8800gt I has never been able to run a game like Oblivion stability with HDR + AA (even though nvidia boasted of it as a selling point at one point) and some of their drivers have been so bad to the point of actually breaking cards (the fan control issue)
 
I currently have 2 * 5850. But i must be honest and say i prefer NVIDIA drivers hands down as far as stability, UI and general usage goes. Theres so many little niggling problems in ATI drivers.
 
Regardless of the situation on windows, on Linux ATI dirver didn't even turn up to the race, even in the special disabled race. Nvidia took gold at the olympics with their linux drivers!
 
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