Moi?I run an Nvidia 580 in my server
Are you sure you haven't got an AMD 580 in your server?
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NVIDIA drivers Vs AMD drivers
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Are you sure you haven't got an AMD 580 in your server?
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You are saying the drivers are absolute rubbish though which is harsh to say the least. There's many people out there using there 7970's to game and not worrying about a stupid problem with sleep mode. Yea these little niggles are annoying but in reality its a gaming card to be used for gaming among other things. Sleep mode is not high on my list of priorities and in fact i have it disabled. I got my 6870 on release and installed the drivers and away i went.
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With technology today we should be able to just plug and play. Years ago getting sound to work was laughable with having to set every mobo/GPU/soundcard/input device/coffee brand into any game.
Every setup we have is different and what works flawlessly for some sadly does not for others. You can see why consoles are so popular when basically all you need to do is insert the disc (idiot proof).
Universal drivers one day maybe?
Every setup we have is different and what works flawlessly for some sadly does not for others. You can see why consoles are so popular when basically all you need to do is insert the disc (idiot proof).
Universal drivers one day maybe?
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My first few years of using a pc for gaming was all about learning but since then i do little fiddling after i have decided on the setting to use which only takes a few minutes. I think people fiddle to much and cause themselves to much stress.
I usually put in the new card and install drivers. I then play games end off. I really don't understand all this trouble that people run into. It even seems to be the same people having the same problems. Maybe these people just notice more than the rest.
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I had a GTX 285 and two Gtx 470's in SLI before going to AMD. I have to be honest and say I thought Nvidia's drivers were better. Not faultless of course, but better. I still thing AMD's are ok, but neither IMO sound to be as good as they should be.
What about dead cards? I seem to have a disroportianately high amount of them; yet I do exactly the same as you.
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I know it would be more work for them but why don't they ditch unified drivers and have seperate optimised drivers for each series of cards.
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Yea i have had a few. The 8800gtx packed in around the same time nvidia released a driver that was killing them. I am not sure i had this driver but its pretty suspicious. My 1900xtx memory went just as i was about to replace it. To be honest around the time i had these cards i was gaming everyday around 12 hours a day so i was not surprised to much as they were worked very hard. I also had a 9800pro go on me but i was a noob back then and never cleaned out my case much and the card was overclocked. This card probably went because of me.
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I'm in the market for a new card as my 5850 isn't cutting it any more.
The two games I'm most interested in are rFactor2 and pCars, if you read their forums it's ATI cards that are giving the most problems. Mainly down to poor AA performance.
The two games I'm most interested in are rFactor2 and pCars, if you read their forums it's ATI cards that are giving the most problems. Mainly down to poor AA performance.
8600gt - never had a problem, occasional crashes as the card aged, I eventually retired it after 5 years.
8800gt - the replacement for the 8600, occasional crashes playing C&C Kanes Wrath. Card died after 18 months, not a driver related issue though. Went back to the 8600 until I bought;
XFX 6850 - Had issues with Dirt 3 (the game I got free with it), updating the drivers fixed that. Started running two screens on it a while back, still sat on 12.1 drivers as I haven't had too many issues with them so far.
I'd say I've had better results with Nvidia cards, albeit the older tech. None of the issues I have had have made me prefer either brand however.
8800gt - the replacement for the 8600, occasional crashes playing C&C Kanes Wrath. Card died after 18 months, not a driver related issue though. Went back to the 8600 until I bought;
XFX 6850 - Had issues with Dirt 3 (the game I got free with it), updating the drivers fixed that. Started running two screens on it a while back, still sat on 12.1 drivers as I haven't had too many issues with them so far.
I'd say I've had better results with Nvidia cards, albeit the older tech. None of the issues I have had have made me prefer either brand however.
There are some games which do significantly better on NV than AMD vice versa. There aren't that many though
1 or 2 out of more people praising them. Only you and Locky spring to mind, and he managed to get 2 7970's running, and he didn't threaten to Vaseline them up in his garden shed, or was it chainsaw? Can't remember...
And? That's still another person who has had the exact same issue as me.
You are the biggest fanboy I have ever seen. So far gone are you that you are incapable of anything that could be considered reason and you just go around bleating and making excuses for AMD.
I bet they love you.
12.2 drivers are reasonable, anything after that it breaks crossfire, ask other crossfire users including besty, the latest 12.4 are better, and pretty much got everything working, but I have to fiddle and find fixes to get things perfect which for the money I have spent I really shouldn't need to do.
But I knew when going to AMD from Nvidia again - the drivers are not in the same league as Nvidias, at least for multi-card config they are not, but for the price I paid for my cards, it is worth it 100%
But I knew when going to AMD from Nvidia again - the drivers are not in the same league as Nvidias, at least for multi-card config they are not, but for the price I paid for my cards, it is worth it 100%
No, but I'll take the ones with far fewer problems and more features on top.
AMD / ATI cards have normally been fine and problem free for me when I only used a single card (9800 pro, X1900 xt). Since I started using crossfire they simply didn't work.
Nvidia simply rule supreme for multiple GPU support, compatibility and game profiles, AMD / ATI never seemed to care the slightest about properly supporting crossfire.
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Quadfire works fine here on my 5970s with 12.4.
I don't ever consider buying nvidia stuff, i am not sure exactly why, maybe a bit of distrust due to all the "way its meant to be played" stuff along with them bringing out drivers to purposely stop nvidia cards working if you have an ati card present (to stop people using physx with ati cards).
I never had any driver issues with amd/ati apart from using crossfire which always seems to be awkward to get working.
I never had any driver issues with amd/ati apart from using crossfire which always seems to be awkward to get working.
But would quadsli 480's work better? o.O
No idea.
The bad business practices of nVidia (crippling PhysX on CPUs, sponsoring games in order to disadvantage AMD, etc) also put me off as well, though I still go where the best deal is to be had.
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Think GPU's are one of the few things in life where there are two decent rivals. The drivers themselves work fine for the average user more or less.
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