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Is software and support a big part of your decision when choosing a card?

No. I find that the extras such as shadowplay or raptor mean absolutely nothing to me and I always get better results tweaking the games myself.

I find Nvidia Inspector and RadeonPro good enough for my tweaking needs on both Nvidia and AMD respectively.
 
Well, I'm out! Just done a deal for a sweet clocking pair of eVGA 980 Superclocked's!

See you in 6/7 months AMD (with a pair of 390s no doubt), hopefully you would have sorted your **** out :D
 
Yes, I think from a stability stand point both sides are about even, but nvidia are streets ahead with their software package
 
I've never had a card that didn't just plug in and work, so I don't really care. If I was to do dual card I'd be a lot more interested in it though
 
PrinceNelson said:
Yep. Recently switched to Nvidia and everything just works. I never feel shafted anymore. You never hear of things being badly optimized for Nvidia but it's always hit or miss with AMD.
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You cant of been in to PCs long at all, 2 weeks at most and have never visited the official NV forum.
 
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I enjoy gaming as well as watching anime/movies/TV series, and I find AMD's Resolution Enhancement's upscaling feature significantly improve the quality of the videos. I don't think Nvidia software/driver has this or similar feature?
 
The thing is though...let say Nvidia does have better driver and software support, it is not without a cost. For the same money, in order to have Nvidia's "superior" software and support, it is at the cost of having a slower card...
 
Marine-RX179 said:
The thing is though...let say Nvidia does have better driver and software support, it is not without a cost. For the same money, in order to have Nvidia's "superior" software and support, it is at the cost of having a slower card...
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How much slower are you thinking, though? I would have thought not much at all (almost negligible in some cases) when you compare the two in a variety of scenarios.
 
I'd say yes, I currently have several games I've bought recently that have in game problems that are down to drivers and the lack of updates since there release.

Even titles like Telltale games's Borderlands have driver issues showing. It has these nasty judders in game and were talking 1 or 2 second freezes. It's not a game that really suffers from fps issues but my enjoyment and immersion certainly do. And that's what it's all about.

Another unrelated issue is the fact that there's so many titles that my Twin Frozer 290x can't max out at 1080p. That's a joke for a top end card even if it is about to become last gen, It's not like it's only just started. If AMD can't get there performance issues solved with GM titles then things are looking even worse than they do with just the driver problems. I pray they don't end up in a similar gpu situation to what there current cpu woes have them in.
 
Drivers - very much so
Extra stuff - couldn't give a monkeys

Once reason I am with Nvidia at the moment is the way they support triple screens. It is very much fit & forget. AMD's approach is more flexible but has given me no end of profile issues (fine or me but not when my wife wants to use the PC for work).
 
Software is a big factor for me, lets face it once the novelty of new hardware is worn off then driver and software support is all what's left in the long term.

I'd much rather have a GPU that I feel is slightly underpowered but gets good support than one which looks good on paper but struggles to reach its potential.
 
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AMD need to fix this and fast or it's in danger of souring their 390-series launch...

They have to realise that *we* are the grassroots of the industry, people ask our opinions all the time and if we say AMD support is lacking then it's going to make anyone think twice!

They have absolutely kickass hardware, they just need to improve software support.

I won't be coming back until all this is fixed tbh and going a while. On the upside, I'm looking forward to my 980s being delivered :D
 
i either play games early access or not for a good while
and i mostly play at 1080p
im pretty scared to switch that up right now lol

some stuff needs to be made more easy, from both sides
maybe dx12 will make a difference or maybe it wont lol :(
 
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