It all comes down, hilariously, to nothing but downright luck.
Some install a set of drivers and they immediately work and the card/s do exactly as they should. From that moment on they're sold. Some install them, get a never ending pile of crap and then people on forums saying they're stupid and it's user error and so on. At which point they then hate the product and the drivers. This stuff really does last.
I've only had problems with Nvidia drivers a couple of times. That's in all the years I have used them. I've never had a red screen, black screen or blue screen. Luck? as I said, yes, totally.
With AMD I've had nothing but aggro and when I have taken to forums to get help all I've got are brainwashed trolls telling me I can't install a bloody video driver lmao. Sure I can't.
The worst card I ever had was my 7970. I got artefacts randomly placed all over the desktop making it look like it was made of crystal, black hole monitor which basically turned half of the monitor into a black hole should I let the rig sleep and so on and so on. The issues just went on and on. It was also bloody hot and bloody loud too.
Go looking for help I get the trolls. PEBKAK yada ya. This sort of stuff doesn't exactly make me want to pull my fingernails out again.
Oddly the issues were actually down to AMD and their early 3D tridef rubbish. The monitor I had simply perplexed the GPU and that's why I had so many issues. None of course were my fault, simply down to bad drivers.
And the same was true before that with my 5770s. Every single last moment that I breathed with those things they were nothing but trouble. But again, "Fine here !" "No problems here it's you" and so on. Honestly how can people be that bloody blind? Crossfire clearly did not work properly, how could they not even notice? pmsl.
When Crossfire was exposed I finally got my answers. However, what I didn't understand was how so many people could have suffered these issues without even noticing it. It wasn't hard ! it stuttered like a pig.
So to answer the thread title ONCE AGAIN (seriously can the trolls leave off after this I'm getting tired of saying the same thing over and over) I prefer Nvidia drivers and I've given my reasons why once and for all.
I don't like being accused of being at fault when really it's just poor software. On the flip side? well the bad driver in 2010 killed my GTX 280 but it was under warranty so Nvidia would have ended up supplying the replacement. Other than that? it's been plain sailing.
I did have issues with a 64mb Geforce 4 MX back in 2001 but that turned out to be bad VRAM.
Nvidia have spent good money and time on SLI. Their cards even have hardware built in to help along eradicating frame drops and runt frames so that's where my money has always gone.
However, they (Nvidia) are certainly not in my favour right now. I am looking to jump ship back to AMD (I must want my head examining) but they are going to have to offer the right product at the right price and be able to out do three Titan Blacks with two of their new cards.
If so? well I'll just come on here and shoot the crap with Matt to get them running properly.
Some install a set of drivers and they immediately work and the card/s do exactly as they should. From that moment on they're sold. Some install them, get a never ending pile of crap and then people on forums saying they're stupid and it's user error and so on. At which point they then hate the product and the drivers. This stuff really does last.
I've only had problems with Nvidia drivers a couple of times. That's in all the years I have used them. I've never had a red screen, black screen or blue screen. Luck? as I said, yes, totally.
With AMD I've had nothing but aggro and when I have taken to forums to get help all I've got are brainwashed trolls telling me I can't install a bloody video driver lmao. Sure I can't.
The worst card I ever had was my 7970. I got artefacts randomly placed all over the desktop making it look like it was made of crystal, black hole monitor which basically turned half of the monitor into a black hole should I let the rig sleep and so on and so on. The issues just went on and on. It was also bloody hot and bloody loud too.
Go looking for help I get the trolls. PEBKAK yada ya. This sort of stuff doesn't exactly make me want to pull my fingernails out again.
Oddly the issues were actually down to AMD and their early 3D tridef rubbish. The monitor I had simply perplexed the GPU and that's why I had so many issues. None of course were my fault, simply down to bad drivers.
And the same was true before that with my 5770s. Every single last moment that I breathed with those things they were nothing but trouble. But again, "Fine here !" "No problems here it's you" and so on. Honestly how can people be that bloody blind? Crossfire clearly did not work properly, how could they not even notice? pmsl.
When Crossfire was exposed I finally got my answers. However, what I didn't understand was how so many people could have suffered these issues without even noticing it. It wasn't hard ! it stuttered like a pig.
So to answer the thread title ONCE AGAIN (seriously can the trolls leave off after this I'm getting tired of saying the same thing over and over) I prefer Nvidia drivers and I've given my reasons why once and for all.
I don't like being accused of being at fault when really it's just poor software. On the flip side? well the bad driver in 2010 killed my GTX 280 but it was under warranty so Nvidia would have ended up supplying the replacement. Other than that? it's been plain sailing.
I did have issues with a 64mb Geforce 4 MX back in 2001 but that turned out to be bad VRAM.
Nvidia have spent good money and time on SLI. Their cards even have hardware built in to help along eradicating frame drops and runt frames so that's where my money has always gone.
However, they (Nvidia) are certainly not in my favour right now. I am looking to jump ship back to AMD (I must want my head examining) but they are going to have to offer the right product at the right price and be able to out do three Titan Blacks with two of their new cards.
If so? well I'll just come on here and shoot the crap with Matt to get them running properly.
