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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

Since updating the driver ive had my first problem, when playing POE every now an then the screen would turn black for a split second then kick back in.

Rolled the drivers back an the problem has gone.
 
I can honestly say the only problems I've had with both AMD and Nvidia have been minimal on the driver side.

With AMD I haven't actually had any problems at all ever but with Nvidia I've only had 2 problems, Memory overclock not sticking and chrome causing the driver to stop responding, Not bad for 15 years of use :p
 
Dicehunter said:
I can honestly say the only problems I've had with both AMD and Nvidia have been minimal on the driver side.

With AMD I haven't actually had any problems at all ever but with Nvidia I've only had 2 problems, Memory overclock not sticking and chrome causing the driver to stop responding, Not bad for 15 years of use :p
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nVidia have been a bit poor for drivers of late... however I've not yet been in a situation where there isn't a driver that works perfectly fine, even if its a slightly older one. There have been people caught out though where there isn't a slightly older one to fallback on that supports their card i.e. 980ti release.

This is one of my bigger criticisms of AMD v nVidia drivers in the past - even when nVidia have had bad drivers there has almost always been a fairly recent "fallback" driver that works perfectly fine (albeit sometimes you will lose some minor performance optimisations). With AMD (though not so much lately) there have been times when there simply isn't a (properly) working driver that supports i.e. newer game releases - that was particularly relevant through the 5000/6000 series - not so much 7000 forward. There were quite a lot of game releases around the time of Far Cry 2 where you'd have to wait around a month to play them properly on AMD cards with proper performance and compatibility (don't make me start quoting the patch/changelog notes to back this up :P).
 
Rroff said:
nVidia have been a bit poor for drivers of late... however I've not yet been in a situation where there isn't a driver that works perfectly fine, even if its a slightly older one. There have been people caught out though where there isn't a slightly older one to fallback on that supports their card i.e. 980ti release.

This is one of my bigger criticisms of AMD v nVidia drivers in the past - even when nVidia have had bad drivers there has almost always been a fairly recent "fallback" driver that works perfectly fine (albeit sometimes you will lose some minor performance optimisations). With AMD (though not so much lately) there have been times when there simply isn't a (properly) working driver that supports i.e. newer game releases - that was particularly relevant through the 5000/6000 series - not so much 7000 forward. There were quite a lot of game releases around the time of Far Cry 2 where you'd have to wait around a month to play them properly on AMD cards with proper performance and compatibility (don't make me start quoting the patch/changelog notes to back this up :P).
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FarCry 2 was a lot of years ago, during that time yes AMD's Drivers were pretty bad, but they have been solid for the last couple of years. From 12.11 onwards AMD stepped up their game.
 
Rroff said:
nVidia have been a bit poor for drivers of late... however I've not yet been in a situation where there isn't a driver that works perfectly fine, even if its a slightly older one. There have been people caught out though where there isn't a slightly older one to fallback on that supports their card i.e. 980ti release.

This is one of my bigger criticisms of AMD v nVidia drivers in the past - even when nVidia have had bad drivers there has almost always been a fairly recent "fallback" driver that works perfectly fine (albeit sometimes you will lose some minor performance optimisations). With AMD (though not so much lately) there have been times when there simply isn't a (properly) working driver that supports i.e. newer game releases - that was particularly relevant through the 5000/6000 series - not so much 7000 forward. There were quite a lot of game releases around the time of Far Cry 2 where you'd have to wait around a month to play them properly on AMD cards with proper performance and compatibility (don't make me start quoting the patch/changelog notes to back this up :P).
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This is what made my mind up to skip the 9x series, was ready to upgrade then read all the threads/posts on people having trouble.

Soon put the brakes on.
 
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