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ATI / nVidia Driver Survey

I've used both ATI and nVidia cards in a number of machines and both have some issues in use. However I've never had an nVidia driver fail to install and I've had that twice with ATI drivers.

One failure was due to .NET 2 not being installed and another due to an MS update not being installed. In both cases the installer crashed rather than give a useful message - this doesn't say much for their installation testing (let alone uninstallation testing!) so in my experience ATI lag behind nVidia in driver quality.
 
I have a gripe with the win7 64 and 10.3s taking an eternity to load maps in games, but I'm no fan boy and jump around to whoever give best bang for buck so don't pull punches.
 
Simon42 said:
I've used both ATI and nVidia cards in a number of machines and both have some issues in use. However I've never had an nVidia driver fail to install and I've had that twice with ATI drivers.

One failure was due to .NET 2 not being installed and another due to an MS update not being installed. In both cases the installer crashed rather than give a useful message - this doesn't say much for their installation testing (let alone uninstallation testing!) so in my experience ATI lag behind nVidia in driver quality.
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I'm sorry but it was down to YOU that the drivers couldn't install. Blaming ATI because you didn't have a clue you needed certain files is your fault dude.

Somehow I've never had a problem with EITHER Nvidia or ATI drivers. Both have been perfect for me even well before Radeon 9800 Pro days. This is on multiple systems/hardware.
 
rIcK said:
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.
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I agree, I've found crossfire took more work to get running well than SLI, though I like the tinkering side of things so I don't mind some playing around to get things working. it's funny, it's odd things that caught me out, (like display port not working in crossfire with some drivers, certain AA levels crashing games etc), none of it's been insurmountable though, it's all easily fixed with a simple question on a forum or a quick google, now it's set up properly it's great.
 
the biggest problems ive had with display drivers was back when i bought my 8800gtx. the occasional blue screens, missing smoke in cs source ect. apart from the blue screens it wasnt anything significant.


since then, and before then, ive owned ati cards, and the only real 'problem' i can think of was when i went to play a bit of quake 3 and the display was garbled (ati 5850). other than that, and the odd graphics driver restart, ive had no problems whatsoever. no grey screens or flickering (im running dual screen).

over the years, either side of that 8800gtx, ive owned two ati 9500's, an x800xt, a hd4830 and my current 5850. no major problems with any of them.
 
james.miller said:
since then, and before then, ive owned ati cards, and the only real 'problem' i can think of was when i went to play a bit of quake 3 and the display was garbled (ati 5850).
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Thats usually caused by having an incorrect value for the setting r_displayrefresh (tho on a default config it should reset to 0 and not cause a problem).
 
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Duran, if you have nothing constructive to add to this thread and only going to post for trolling purposes and trying to bait other members, I would highly suggest refraining from posting in this thread. In fact, that also applies to any thread created on this forum. This also applies to everyone else else-well.

Thank you. :)
 
Well, the latest ATI drivers certainly work a whole lot better that the latest NVidia ones do on my 5850.

But honnestly, I have never had issues with either.
 
J.D said:
I'm sorry but it was down to YOU that the drivers couldn't install. Blaming ATI because you didn't have a clue you needed certain files is your fault dude.
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I am a software developer so do have 'a clue'. If a driver will not install on a fresh Windows 7 Ultimate install and does not list the requirement that caused it to crash and doesn't bother to check for this in the initial installer loader then it's certainly not my fault.

It's a shame that a reasonable post meets with an offensive reply.
 
Have read through this thread firstly with interest and secondly with the thought of ... oh,oh, here we go again. My twopenneth (for what it's worth):-

Have owned both - little problems with either; all of which were usually cured fairly quickly.

Do remember trying hard to see the difference in 'quality' that was sometimes mentioned; tbh could never see it in actual use ; although I could see the difference when comparing frames sometimes I do not usually play games a frame at a time.

Some time ago I did take the view that nvidia were more on the ball with Ati taking too long with driver releases but then they reversed position. Nvidia appear, finally, to accept the Amd approach of regular (not quite monthly, as if it did they would simply be copying which is , of course, a no,no..) driver updates is the way to go.

I am NOT praising either of them but because of both of them we, the punters, now get the regular updates that we all need :D:D

Last comment I would make is more general in nature and not aimed at anyone on particular more just to observe that I believe that these forums are a truly excellent place for good and ,usually, unbiased advise and with this in mind would make the following simple observation :-

If you do not like a particular make or brand then do not buy it !!
At the actual moment you decide that you are never buying that make etc again it would be fair to say that in your opinion because of your experience to that date that product is not worth buying and the one that you replaced it with replaced it is better BUT once that product or its drivers have been changed that opinion is no longer valid. (by all means mention that in the PAST this or that product was c... but please observe that this was then and may NO LONGER be true!)

Apologies - Rant over
 
Simon42 said:
I am a software developer so do have 'a clue'. If a driver will not install on a fresh Windows 7 Ultimate install and does not list the requirement that caused it to crash and doesn't bother to check for this in the initial installer loader then it's certainly not my fault.

It's a shame that a reasonable post meets with an offensive reply.
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Except the ATI drivers will install on a fresh Windows 7 install without requiring you to install .NET version 2 or any specific updates, if it didn't for you then I'd say the problem is something else. Windows 7 comes with .NET 3.5.1 which includes .NET version 2.
 
Broken Hope said:
Except the ATI drivers will install on a fresh Windows 7 install without requiring you to install .NET version 2 or any specific updates, if it didn't for you then I'd say the problem is something else. Windows 7 comes with .NET 3.5.1 which includes .NET version 2.
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Yes I know Windows 7 comes with .NET 3.5 (wouldn't be much of a developer if I didn't ;)). The reference to .NET 2 was for an older ATI card a few years back not the recent install issue on Windows 7 hence why I said I've had two installation issues with ATI.
 
AgedIdiot said:
Have read through this thread firstly with interest and secondly with the thought of ... oh,oh, here we go again. My twopenneth (for what it's worth):-

Have owned both - little problems with either; all of which were usually cured fairly quickly.

Do remember trying hard to see the difference in 'quality' that was sometimes mentioned; tbh could never see it in actual use ; although I could see the difference when comparing frames sometimes I do not usually play games a frame at a time.

Some time ago I did take the view that nvidia were more on the ball with Ati taking too long with driver releases but then they reversed position. Nvidia appear, finally, to accept the Amd approach of regular (not quite monthly, as if it did they would simply be copying which is , of course, a no,no..) driver updates is the way to go.

I am NOT praising either of them but because of both of them we, the punters, now get the regular updates that we all need :D:D

Last comment I would make is more general in nature and not aimed at anyone on particular more just to observe that I believe that these forums are a truly excellent place for good and ,usually, unbiased advise and with this in mind would make the following simple observation :-

If you do not like a particular make or brand then do not buy it !!
At the actual moment you decide that you are never buying that make etc again it would be fair to say that in your opinion because of your experience to that date that product is not worth buying and the one that you replaced it with replaced it is better BUT once that product or its drivers have been changed that opinion is no longer valid. (by all means mention that in the PAST this or that product was c... but please observe that this was then and may NO LONGER be true!)

Apologies - Rant over
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wow i don't even need to create my post somebody did it for me. I too have dealt with both nvidia and ati, both perfectly fine for me, both have had their little problems here and there but nothing major. The regular updates that are now being done are a good thing.
 
One moment the NVIDIA drivers seem to have less problem, 1 month later it's the AMD drivers.
It all depends on the moment, what games are played, the cards that are out on that moment and the technology.
 
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