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Are ATI Drivers Bad?

coughs said:
What kind of mistakes can you make in ATi settings?

it's all straight forward.
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When using Crossfire some people set A.I to Advance or Off when it should be left on Standard. Advanced can lead to gfx corruption in some games, it tries to give more performance by cutting corners on things that you may not notice= the MP3 of GFX & A.I Off =no CF.

Some people setting driver quality settings & forgetting that they did so & wonder why performance is so bad Or it can even stop in game AA settings taking effect= no AA.

3rd party gfx setting SW can conflict, everything has bugs.
Some 3rd party GUI hacking SW can also conflict...ect.


I only use afterburner.
 
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ebilcake said:
There not bad, just not as good as nvidia.

Monthly driver updates from ATI are pretty pointless, most of the releases have brought me nothing new, in some cases even when being released after a new game they still have no crossfire profiles for that game and you end up waiting another month.

In some cases games are simply never fixed, e.g. The Settlers 7 STILL does not work with crossfire; of course nvidia have their share of problems but they do tend to release drivers with new game releases as and when you need them, plus the weekly beta's mean you always have the latest fixes.

In ATI's case you get told by lame beta testers over at rage3d you have to wait a month for new driver .. :mad:
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Wrong

Bug fixes, the odd performance boost, new featues are all included every month, just some more than others.

ATI now have XFire profiles, so as soon as a game is released they update the profile, you download and install, no need for another driver.

Rage3D is full of morons IMHO, especially Spire.
 
Can't believe this is still going on. :rolleyes: To be honest my opinion on the matter is as follows : The vast majority of users have absolutely no clue about wth is going on and lack even the most rudimentary trouble-shooting skills resulting in just blindly blaming the drivers. Too often people blatantly ignore the simple fact that the GPU is only one part of their setup for instance.


Furthermore, I think ati/nvidia in general get way too much flak for what is essentially the incompetence of game and software devs, the car should fit the road not the other way around. Ever wondered why most issues are limited to a specific game ?




- Ordokai
 
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Jokester said:
Indeed there isn't a month that goes by, without ATI users moaning about the latest driver set breaking something, something which you don't see with Nvidia driver releases much at all.
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Sadly this is the case. I hadn't had any major driver issues until 10.6 and 10.7 where the control centre doesn't even work for a start, the IQ when playing full screen videos is truly awful and AA is broken in many games or the framerate is nearly halved.

It's massively annoying to wait for drivers to come out after a new game has come out so you can play it properly. Starcraft 2 with the AA bug for example where as nvidia hardware doesn't have this problem.

The only time I've ever thought "wow" when trying out a new set of ATI drivers was at half life 2's release where the top ATI cards absolutely demolished the performance of the Nvidia boards at the same price point.

The hardware seems to be exactly on course with what customers want (quiet, cool, doesn't use too much electricity and is powerful) but the software side of the company is crap compared to that.
 
James J said:
Sadly this is the case. I hadn't had any major driver issues until 10.6 and 10.7 where the control centre doesn't even work for a start, the IQ when playing full screen videos is truly awful and AA is broken in many games or the framerate is nearly halved.

It's massively annoying to wait for drivers to come out after a new game has come out so you can play it properly. Starcraft 2 with the AA bug for example where as nvidia hardware doesn't have this problem.

The only time I've ever thought "wow" when trying out a new set of ATI drivers was at half life 2's release where the top ATI cards absolutely demolished the performance of the Nvidia boards at the same price point.

The hardware seems to be exactly on course with what customers want (quiet, cool, doesn't use too much electricity and is powerful) but the software side of the company is crap compared to that.
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If you use SC2 as an example, you do know that Blizzard didn't include an option to enable it in game right?
 
everybody messes up now and again, ATI do it, NVIDIA do it, game developers do it with patches that actually somehow manage to make stuff worse than it was (rare but it does happen), so I don't really see the point in an 'Are ATI Drivers Bad' thread, since its not limited to ATI.
 
You tend to get bashed when you criticize ATI's drivers.

I've owned various cards from both companies; for the most part I've had better success with Nvidia drivers, but they ain't always been perfect either.
 
not really

only complints about ATI drivers is CCC most of the time to say the least fine they do break things as well

Nvidia don't really have a "control panel" to speck about..so not much to go wrong there really :p
 
Given the fact that the monthly Catalyst drivers will fix some problems, and re create problems they fixed the previous month (BFBC2 etc) i would say that they are not good.

Crossfire support is poor, some newer games don't work and you sometimes have to wait until 3 weeks after a new game is released to be provided a "Hotfix" driver. Some driver packages actually disable crossfire support for games that previously used it

I've said it before and i'll say it again. ATI have the superior hardware but Nvidia's driver team are in a different league to ATIs.

i've owned many video cards over the years, 7800GTX, 8800GTX, GTX280 (all in SLI) and 4870x2 (quadfire), 5970 quadfire, 5870 trifire, Eyefinity - i would say with the poor driver experiences i have had, it's unlikely i would purchase ATI again
 
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