NVIDIA drivers Vs AMD drivers

[OptimaLnrg]

geforce fx5500 - no driver issues
geforce 8800gt - no driver issues. Dell psu destroyed it.
some low-end old school radeon for my sister - no driver issues (although tbf she only used the pc for sims + coursework etc until her bf at the time broke it.)
ati radeon hd4870 1gb -no driver issues
geforce 520m - no driver issues
gefore gts 250 1gb(brother)- no driver issues
geforce gtx 580 1.5gb SLI - no driver issues
geforce gtx 580 3gb - no driver issues
geforce gtx680 SLI - ... tbc ;D

 

[tommybhoy]

@bhavv, Can't argue with almost everything you said, never used CrossFire before my 69's I'm on now.

Although they have been pain free for me apart from **** scaling with Crysis 2(AMD blamed Crytek for that one too but as it's shrouded in controversy I wouldn't put it past them) until they sorted it out and it took a fortnight for Witcher 2iirc(I can only comment on the games I own so there may be some others).

I got the 69's as all the reviews said AMD steped up the game with scaling on these(which at first they did).

With the fantastic scaling to match what the reviewers echoed(the highest scaling cards at the time by far) and the fact they unlocked and had 2Gb memory that would see me through skipping this gen if need be was my reasoning to get them, thankfully the gamble I took paid off.

The only problem being though was, round about Autumn time last year, it was as if it wasn't a priority any more with AMD, round about the time you could create your own profiles was introduced in CCC, performance from what I read in various places wasn't there on release of(with the exception of BF3, it rocked from day 1) some titles.

Skyrim which you mentioned wasn't exclusively **** on CrossFire though, plenty of Nvidia issues too but granted they appeared to have better performance on day 1.

 

[bhavv]

Dude Nvidia rolled out full SLI support profiles for Skyrim the day before it realeased, and it has been working flawlessly since.

Any system with crossfire ran skyrim at a 20 fps slideshow for several months after the game had launched.

Plenty of Nvidia issues with Skyrim ... Yea right, making things up as you tend to do.

I didn't even mention anything about scaling in my comparison, all the scaling in the world wouldn't matter the slightest if the multiple GPU setup simply doesn't work well in the latest games, or needs severe measures like bios flashing to get it working, which tends to be a recurring case with crossfire.

Also your 2 Gb memory on the 6970s was always worse and beaten in just about everything by 1280 Mb GTX 570s, even at 2560x1600 resolution.

ATI 6900 series - most useless and misleading GPUs ever released with 2 Gb vram. Worse in almost everything than 1.2 - 1.5 Gb on GTX 570 / 580.

 

[Cleeecooo]

Guys, try not to make this personal

 

[Final8y]

Im getting troubles with afterburner 2.2 not playing well with my second monitor. 12.5 alone works fine, 12.4 alone works fine...soon as AB comes up my secondary monitor goes haywire with display corruption. Any ideas?

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1038662646&postcount=9

So keep those 3rd party apps to a minimum or disable if your having gfx issues as they may be the cause and likely a conflict of settings.

 

[tommybhoy]

I thought we could have kept it civil bhavv.

Plenty of Nvidia issues with Skyrim ... Yea right, making things up as you tend to do.

'Ive had the exact same problem, when playing BF3. Skyrim and starwars old republic.

I can play perfect, at any setting, but at completly random occasions, the game freezes, and the sound starts to loop.
Or i get a blackscreen, the issues are the same for all games, ive ran bios on default, game settings on default.

I have 2x Gigabyte 560 ti, in sli, and ive had them for about 7months.
My psu is 750w (80+)
have a i5 2500k
asrock p67 pro rev 3 motherboard,
and 8gb 1600mhz ram.

In my case its partly an SLI issue i guess, cause Skyrim runs just fine with sli disabled, but old republic and BF3 still crashes, just not as often.


at first i thought the cards was overheating, but they hardly reach 75 degrees c*.

My cards have the latest bios, and ive tried all sorts of drivers.
Im left completely clueless.
I tried underclocking aswell, upping or lowering voltages, ive tried overclocking. undeclocking my cpu. adding voltage to the cpu, lowering voltage to the cpu. but nothing i do seems to help

Is it maybe that Gigabyte's 560 cards are utter ****? Or is there something im missing? '

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?...=1401521&hl=skyrim&fromsearch=1&#entry1401521

and:

'So far I've watched Youtube for hours and played quite a bit of Skyrim with no problems'

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?...=1401414&hl=skyrim&fromsearch=1&#entry1401414

Didn't take long to look, both posted yesterday, straight from Nvidia's forum.

I didn't even mention anything about scaling in my comparison, all the scaling in the world wouldn't matter the slightest if the multiple GPU setup simply doesn't work well in the latest games, or needs severe measures like bios flashing to get it working, which tends to be a recurring case with crossfire.

Also your 2 Gb memory on the 6970s was always worse and beaten in just about everything by 1280 Mb GTX 570s, even at 2560x1600 resolution.

ATI 6900 series - most useless and misleading GPUs ever released with 2 Gb vram. Worse in almost everything than 1.2 - 1.5 Gb on GTX 570 / 580.

As I said I was keeping it civil, I won't bother with the rest, it just goes to show I was right from the start!

 

[atpbx]

Ive actually encountered the first problem I've had with a gfx driver in 10 years or so this week. 12.4 on my 7970 hangs the system when it turns the monitor off in sleep mode.
Rolled back to 12.3 as there was no difference in performance from one to the other.

 

[ALXAndy]

Ive actually encountered the first problem I've had with a gfx driver in 10 years or so this week. 12.4 on my 7970 hangs the system when it turns the monitor off in sleep mode.
Rolled back to 12.3 as there was no difference in performance from one to the other.

Wow careful Dave will think there's a conspiracy going on !

 

[mjones1]

Found AMD drivers better even with in crossfire, never had issues with them.

 

[ThundyCat]

Fed up of the childish bickering.

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