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Another feather in Nvidia's Cap!
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The 10.6 drivers are broken for Crossfire users.
which incidently if you look at the release notes, is where all the otimisations where!
Makes you think, did they test the drivers at all!
which incidently if you look at the release notes, is where all the otimisations where!
Makes you think, did they test the drivers at all!
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Tri-fire crossfire x works fine here in batman and JC2 and Other games
I had issues untill i reinstalled windows with 10.6 and now none of the issues
Tbh I loved my 7900 GTO when I bought it, and I love my 5870 now.
Just get what you think is the best value within your budget at the time - I have no loyalty to one brand. My last 4 cards have gone Nvidia, ATi, Nvidia, ATi.
Just get what you think is the best value within your budget at the time - I have no loyalty to one brand. My last 4 cards have gone Nvidia, ATi, Nvidia, ATi.
To be fair, I've had more issues with ATI drivers with my 4850, 4890 then 5850 than my Brother had with his 9800GT, then 9800GT SLI.
The 4890 is now his, and it wouldn't run very well with anything past 10.3 drivers (haven't tried 10.6 yet though). 10.5 would give horrendous artifacts in Fallout 3 on the water, and in ME2 everywhere. Reverted to 10.3, and voila, gone. 10.4s wouldn't install properly either, every time there was an 'error in installation', and the log wouldn't open to let me know what it is.
I had problems with 10.4 and 10.5 drivers with my 5850, though 10.3 betas were rock solid.
To be honest. I now see drivers as a bit like a BIOS update. You don't bother, unless you need something that a later driver includes.
I think with the nVidia driver release that stopped fan profiles working was only limited to a few batches of cards with certain BIOSes, most were unaffected AFAIK.
The 4890 is now his, and it wouldn't run very well with anything past 10.3 drivers (haven't tried 10.6 yet though). 10.5 would give horrendous artifacts in Fallout 3 on the water, and in ME2 everywhere. Reverted to 10.3, and voila, gone. 10.4s wouldn't install properly either, every time there was an 'error in installation', and the log wouldn't open to let me know what it is.
I had problems with 10.4 and 10.5 drivers with my 5850, though 10.3 betas were rock solid.
To be honest. I now see drivers as a bit like a BIOS update. You don't bother, unless you need something that a later driver includes.
I think with the nVidia driver release that stopped fan profiles working was only limited to a few batches of cards with certain BIOSes, most were unaffected AFAIK.
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To be honest I do not know if VLC can do anything MPC can not or vice versa.
VLC, doesnt suck that bad. Its a nice self contained open source media player.
As for media player classic, the reason I dont like it, is that windows Pc's already have a microsoft media player, so VLC is something distinctly different.
What's the problem again? some xfire problems and VLC player not working, wow major problemsnearly as bad as Nvidia's GFX card killing drivers that turned fans speed down at high temps, 10.6 working fine here on single 5870, big song and dance over nothing.
Compare and contrast... nVidia screwed up badly with those drivers but they pulled them within minutes of the issue being discovered and had fixed drivers out inside 2 days. ATI have known about these video playback issues for months and done nothing - its not just VLC thats affected, problems with video decoding/playback especially related to rendering with a hardware surface affect other software too - its just VLC is one of the most high profile. When they say they can't get access to intel hardware they are talking about documentation, instrumented drivers, etc. not just having the hardware to play with.
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Yeah but the windows one grew a skin of hell and hid all use useful context menus. Just try finding "properties" for an open video to get some basic codec info!As for media player classic, the reason I dont like it, is that windows Pc's already have a microsoft media player, so VLC is something distinctly different.
Among other things, MPC/MPC-HC has bindable keys/mouse buttons, great for optimising the home theatre experience.
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Ive not moved from my 10.4 lol
There's absolutely nothing wrong with video playback on ATI. It's been the gpu of choice for premium HTPC builders for around a year now, especially since the 5xxx series cards came out, and that doesn't look to change in the near future. I've been building HTPCs for years now and I've never had it so easy setting them up.
Video playback in general is fine however there are a number of underlying issues related to hardware decoding/rendering to a hardware surface that have been brought to ATI's attention months ago and not fixed.