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When is the new Titan killer expected?

my comment wasn't aimed at you specifically. i'm just not a fan of people decrying anyone who doesn't like amd drivers even when it isn't relevant at all. i obviously think amd drivers have become acceptable, but not everyone feels the same.

OP's post was definitely provocative but he's not posting about amd drivers, he's just giving a justification for why he wants to upgrade so that people don't try and convince him to stick with amd cards. if anything i think "you're wrong, amd drivers are faultless" is unhelpful and pretty much irrelevant. just recommend him an nvidia gpu like he wants, and move on... right?
 
PorkPieCat said:
my comment wasn't aimed at you specifically. i'm just not a fan of people decrying anyone who doesn't like amd drivers even when it isn't relevant at all. i obviously think amd drivers have become acceptable, but not everyone feels the same.

OP's post was definitely provocative but he's not posting about amd drivers, he's just giving a justification for why he wants to upgrade so that people don't try and convince him to stick with amd cards. if anything i think "you're wrong, amd drivers are faultless" is unhelpful and pretty much irrelevant. just recommend him an nvidia gpu like he wants, and move on... right?
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No, I don't agree. If he sees 4/5 people saying "there must be something else up" and decides to look into it one more time and gets his driver issues resolved and has a fully working 7950 then he would be happier in these next 12 months waiting for his Nvidia Titan Killer. Then he can buy his Nvidia Titan MKII or w/e and be happy.

That would be best, no? Anyway, let's not derail any further.
 
At present, I dislike Nvidia drivers... Had to roll back to a previous driver for Grid2 to stop the constant flicking to ~30fps from 80+ :(

Most of the driver errors have issues on both AMD AND Nvidia. You could be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire in honesty. They all need tinkering with at some level to get perfect.

:D @ Rusty
 
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craptakular said:
As titled I am going to be getting a new graphics card for Arma 3 in the winter and I was wondering when the next Titan killer is expected?

I don't want ATI as there graphics drivers are too flaky, my 7950, 5870, 4870 1950 have all been a nightmare! Everytime I buy Nvidia it feels like God has approved their drivers and they simply just work.
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I'd suggest that if you've had/are having all that trouble with AMD drivers, then you don't know what you're doing.
 
The only trouble I have had with my 7950 drivers at any point is GPU acceleration in Photoshop. Everything else just works... FC3, Dishonored, Bio: Infinite etc.
 
[WU-TANG]GZA;24380677 said:
No, I don't agree. If he sees 4/5 people saying "there must be something else up" and decides to look into it one more time and gets his driver issues resolved and has a fully working 7950 then he would be happier in these next 12 months waiting for his Nvidia Titan Killer. Then he can buy his Nvidia Titan MKII or w/e and be happy.

That would be best, no? Anyway, let's not derail any further.
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it's things like "you don't know what you're doing", "you don't know how to use a pc", that aren't very helpful. he obviously feels particularly strongly in favour of nvidia so he doesn't need 4/5 people telling him he's computer illiterate. moreover, such insulting statements don't often convince people to change their minds. if anything it makes them defensive. besides, despite amd having a much smaller user base, ocuk seems far more inclined towards amd. and despite being an amd-man myself, i'm always going to take opinions here with a bit of salt, even when deferring to the greater knowledge of the guys on here.

driver sweeping and so on have never helped me with my driver issues either. despite so many posts on here to the contrary (which made me believe for months that i'd built my machine like an imbecile) the only things that eventually fixed my issues were very slow driver fixes. the biggest aggravation being giant black triangles flashing in and out of all of my games, which caused me to obsessively replace gpu twice, test all gpus in other machines, reinstall or try different OSes, and look around for user-made fixes. it shouldn't have taken amd a year to fix, but it did - it was fixed this year in catalyst 13.2. had i known my many pc issues had been down to drivers i would never have bothered with these cards in the first place. i was only skeptical that the issues were driver-oriented because this was my first pc build and i suspected pebcak, largely because of parrots on forums claiming that the issues weren't driver-related because they weren't having the same problems.

so while i think your points have merit, you can see why i'm not receptive to claims that driver issues are caused by supposed user indiscretion, or whatever. again, assuming we know best and changing someone's question according to our beliefs... among other things it's just not asked for. (i.e. i respectfully disagree, and let's not sidetrack anymore like you suggest :p)
 
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craptakular said:
As titled I am going to be getting a new graphics card for Arma 3 in the winter and I was wondering when the next Titan killer is expected?

I don't want ATI as there graphics drivers are too flaky, my 7950, 5870, 4870 1950 have all been a nightmare! Everytime I buy Nvidia it feels like God has approved their drivers and they simply just work.
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Well At least AMD dont release a driver that burns out your GPU :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRo-1VFMcbc&list=FLf3qrmLynVBz4OOdzStcwdw&index=1

And to be fair I never had an issue with AMD drivers.
 
I has some weird corruption issues with my GTX660 while running Metro:Last Light using the last set of official Nvidia drivers,which did not show up in other games. Things seem better with the latest set.
 
I get texture flickering, white speccles in Arma 2. Every Nvidia card I have owned has always been problem free gaming. Its been a while since I owned Nvidia though.

My 8800GT, 9800GTX, 260GTX and 285GTX were all fantastic! The only ati card that has been good for me was my old 5870.

I think I have had this 7950 for two months, its an MSI which whines massively as well. Do I have grounds to send it back to ocuk, get a refund and buy an nvidia?

TBF I am getting minimal texture flickering on 13.5, if at all, I have completed Tomb Raider so now only play DCS World and Arma 2.
 
craptakular said:
I get texture flickering, white speccles in Arma 2. Every Nvidia card I have owned has always been problem free gaming. Its been a while since I owned Nvidia though.

My 8800GT, 9800GTX, 260GTX and 285GTX were all fantastic! The only ati card that has been good for me was my old 5870.

I think I have had this 7950 for two months, its an MSI which whines massively as well. Do I have grounds to send it back to ocuk, get a refund and buy an nvidia?

TBF I am getting minimal texture flickering on 13.5, if at all, I have completed Tomb Raider so now only play DCS World and Arma 2.
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coil whine is due to a somewhat poor hardware design choice by amd. it's not really a fault, so it's not grounds for rma afaik. and texture flickering could well be z fighting, which is evidently a bigger issue in newer games for some reason. nvidia cards get the same problems, though driver updates sometimes make things better (or worse...)
 
Sounds like a troll thread, but I'll bite anyway.

From my experience, Nvidia drivers have a better designed control panel UI and features than AMD drivers, its just looks more streamlined and well thought out than the Catalyst control panel.

But, in terms of stability, bugs, performance increases, etc they're are pretty much the same and many would argue that AMD are doing better on that front these days.
 
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