One major driver f*ck up cannot compare to a 15 year history of consistently producing shitty DOS/windows drivers and virtually non-existent linux/unix drivers followed by a 5 year history of producing mediocre drivers that often contain far more bugs than their predecessor. There I said it. If anyone wants to call me an NV fanboy for that statement they are welcome to do so, but anyone who has been buying products from both brands for the last 15 years knows I'm right. ATI drivers didn't start to become decent until the merge with AMD happened, then all of the sudden they started turning things around. Nvidia's drivers are still more reliable (less bugs) and more consistent (lower probably of introducing new bugs and/or major changes during a driver update). AMD/ATI has really caught up though, and has finally gotten close to the level of quality nvidia drivers are known for. The only time I can think of off the top of my head when the quality of nvidia's drivers declined for a reasonably lengthy amount of time was the year after windows vista was released. Nvidia drivers were consistently buggier than AMD/ATIs during that year.
ATI drivers are still like nightmare to me. My friend was having major driver issues, several game effects wouldnt work, I could only solve it by uninstalling catalyst and installing rivatuner (because the two together would fuck antialias and vsync).
Googling then I found out that his specific card model is a bit incompatible with catalyst. WTF?
This happened with a recent graphics card (I cant recall the number, but it was an HD 4xxx one of the best of the 4 series) with the newest driver version (I ended up trying cseveral other ones tough while trying to solve th issue) Also, Antialias seems weaker than on my PC, which is Nvidia, for some reason, using the same games.
I've been using Nvidia for years and their control panel never did anything like that.
(07-19-2011, 07:05 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]One major driver f*ck up cannot compare to a 15 year history of consistently producing shitty DOS/windows drivers and virtually non-existent linux/unix drivers followed by a 5 year history of producing mediocre drivers that often contain far more bugs than their predecessor. There I said it. If anyone wants to call me an NV fanboy for that statement they are welcome to do so, but anyone who has been buying products from both brands for the last 15 years knows I'm right. ATI drivers didn't start to become decent until the merge with AMD happened, then all of the sudden they started turning things around. Nvidia's drivers are still more reliable (less bugs) and more consistent (lower probably of introducing new bugs and/or major changes during a driver update). AMD/ATI has really caught up though, and has finally gotten close to the level of quality nvidia drivers are known for. The only time I can think of off the top of my head when the quality of nvidia's drivers declined for a reasonably lengthy amount of time was the year after windows vista was released. Nvidia drivers were consistently buggier than AMD/ATIs during that year.
This is truth right here.
I've had both ATI and Nvidia rigs, Crossfire to SLI. Crossfire I had at the time was 2x 4870's, which was pretty nice but crossfire scaling compared to SLI scaling at the time wasn't the greatest, and then there was the microstutter problems Crossfire had.
I like both AMD and Nvidia, but I can easily say Nvidia has had better driver support and features. Nvidia also tends to have better Open GL support, and I tend to love Doom 3 and Quake 4, and maybe Rage when it comes out. My Ubuntu and Snow Leopard partitions love Nvidia too.
But I've already ordered my parts for my next rig, and sadly they're not Nvidia this time. 2x 6790's this time.
i hope you are a heavly mutliscreen user...
otherwhise a CF System is useless(besides benchmarks)
(07-21-2011, 10:42 AM)dannzen Wrote: [ -> ]i hope you are a heavly mutliscreen user...
otherwhise a CF System is useless(besides benchmarks)
Mainly for benchmarking games and not synthetic benchmarks, but for how much I'm paying for the 2 of them together, there's nothing at the same price range that would give me similar performance to 2x 6790's. Only thing that sucks though right now, is I'm upgrading everything except the case, cooler, and few small parts like the dvd drive and hdd's. So until Bulldozer is out, I'll be stuck with my x3 435....D:
Cutting it close with that Q3 launch date.