Why Not To Get A Ati Based Card
#31 Posted 18 October 2009 - 11:39 AM
#32 Posted 01 November 2009 - 06:31 PM
CultureShock, on Oct 10 2009, 10:43 AM, said:
Epic made a big splash over NVidia and their Unreal Tournament shovelware nosed into the ground on release. The idiots had developed and tested against NVidia junk so UT was buggy as hell and crashed on ATI's conformant drivers.
I ain't know what you are saying but with my Ati 4850 I can play Crysis with everything at maximum 16x AF and 4x AA.
It costed me 100 euros while the Nvidia card with the same performance cost 170 euros.
And I didn't had problem with Duke 3d which is an open GL game.
I play the high resolution updated pack and I get 400 fps max,120+ min with AF 16x and AA 24x forced by Catalyst.
#33 Posted 29 November 2009 - 11:49 AM
EDIT: Just so I'm wondering...is there going to be anything in AMD/ATI's future that will compete with the PhysX idea? That's one thing nVidia has that AMD/ATI does not.
This post has been edited by WedgeBob: 01 December 2009 - 02:34 PM
#34 Posted 01 December 2009 - 07:22 PM
Currently using the Radeon HD 4850, no complaints.
This post has been edited by PsychoGoatee: 01 December 2009 - 07:23 PM
#35 Posted 10 December 2009 - 07:45 AM
peoplessi, on Aug 26 2009, 03:16 PM, said:
You would if you purchased an ATI card, installed it, found that ATI's drivers won't run OpenGL games and that you couldn't play Polymer Duke. Yes you would! ATI seemed to be good for a while, but now they are known for major compatibility issues with OpenGL on multiple platforms. If you want to play a modern game with DirectX, you should be OK. Want to play any OpenGL game? You're screwed.
peoplessi, on Aug 26 2009, 03:16 PM, said:
I wouldn't undermine ATI with such poor basis.
I would buy the product that does the business with OpenGL - Always bet on NVidia!
#36 Posted 12 December 2009 - 07:10 PM
#37 Posted 15 December 2009 - 03:15 PM
I somehow doubt that ALL these programs and games, which ran flawlessly on Nvidia hardware, suffer from dodgy programming.
ATI are well known for dodgy OpenGL problems. I can play Half Life Episode 2 in Direct X fine. Can I get Half Life 1 to run in Open GL? No way!
Oh, and Cultureshock - the reason that UT3 nosedived on launch is that they released their beta, and then went gold 7 days later! Basically they didn't seem to do ANY testing on any kind of different hardware.
This post has been edited by Tea Monster: 15 December 2009 - 03:27 PM
#38 Posted 15 December 2009 - 03:37 PM
As I have said before, I have owned both ATI and Nvidia card in the past but when it comes to choosing one to stick with I chose ATI as it's more affordable and for the past several years there drivers have been getting better and they acctully support old model cards longer than Nvidia does.
In all honesty I can't see the reason for this thread as it will always be the same bull crap arguments, and when ATI does manage to fix all the tiny bugs with OpenGL Nvidia fanny boys will come up with some other crap and vice versa.
#39 Posted 15 December 2009 - 03:49 PM
CultureShock, on Oct 10 2009, 01:43 AM, said:
ROFLMAO!!
#40 Posted 16 December 2009 - 12:06 AM
CultureShock, on Dec 15 2009, 04:52 PM, said:
I'm happier with ATI because their drivers are more strict and the hardware is better. NVidias image quality is lower and their drivers silently let through a whole mess of crap that should fail. This might explain your Half-Life issue. There's a showstopper bug in the Quake source. Can't speak for (nor do I give a shit for) Blender. From experience, 99% of the time the fault is in the code not the driver.
I don't code around driver bugs. The position I've taken for a long time is it lets driver vendors off the hook and they get lazy. As for vendor fanboism it's just irresponsible business and immaturity. I'm also pissed at Microsoft trying to shorten the business cycle for OS to 3 years. It doesn't work. They're only doing it to make more money in a flat growth market and it will bite them in the ass.
I come from a business and engineering background, and a lot of that stuck. I want stuff to "just work" and can't get over the habit of designing and building stuff with an eye on 20+ year support cycles. Plenty of vendors and fanbois have come and gone and I don't expect that to change. But my stuff will keep chugging on.
You can say what you like, but the above post proves otherwise.
Check these forums, the Blender forums and any other program/game where they use OpenGL. There will be a large section in the forums where people with ATI cards are having problems. That's just a fact.
I am not an NVidia fanboy. The last ATI card was a Rage II. There were no Open GL drivers for it anywhere. I wouldn't mind, but it was released as a gamers card when Open GL was the only way to play 'real' games. That was many years ago though. I got a Riva TNT and all my Open GL games ran like silk.
#41 Posted 17 December 2009 - 10:50 AM
On the PC, things are different. Obviously, there is a bewildering array of graphics cards, software and operating system varieties on the PC platform. Wgat seems to happen is that they test it on the PCs in the office. If it works, it ships!
That is bad, but it dosen't excuse the attitude of Epic Games, who refuse to fix major bugs in thier games. There is STILL no fix for the save game bug in Gears of War.
#42 Posted 29 December 2009 - 06:03 PM
Tea Monster, on Dec 17 2009, 01:50 PM, said:
On the PC, things are different. Obviously, there is a bewildering array of graphics cards, software and operating system varieties on the PC platform. Wgat seems to happen is that they test it on the PCs in the office. If it works, it ships!
That is bad, but it dosen't excuse the attitude of Epic Games, who refuse to fix major bugs in thier games. There is STILL no fix for the save game bug in Gears of War.
Not just them, but you have Volition doing this with Red Faction: Guerilla, too, and SR2, and what not, that's another developer with that same exact tone when it comes to PC ports of console games.
That's why I'm starting to go with developers/publishers that put the PC first, or at least treat the PC versions of their games with the same support they give to the console versions. Most PC ports get treated like second-class citizens.
#43 Posted 05 December 2010 - 11:54 AM
Can't remember the exact specification sheet, but it was pretty beast at the time. I have 4GB RAM, with the mobo being able to accept up to 8GB. 500GB hard drive, a 64-bit quad core Intel CPU running at a lovely fast speed that I can't remember. '3.2GHz' seems to jump out at me, so I'll say that. Most importantly for this topic, I got the rig a GeForce 8800GT 512MB. It was apparently at the upper-reaches of the mid-range of GPUs at the time, and since I don't really game on PC, I thought that'll more than last me for what I use my PC for. The rig itself was (and still is) ridiculous for what it gets used for. Some office-tasks, general surfing.
I've never had anything other than Ubuntu Linux on this PC, and am on I think my fourth iteration of Ubuntu? I always upgrade, and have never had any problems getting my now ageing GPU to run each time I upgrade. My whole rig runs very nicely, is still fast-as-fuck, and shows no signs yet of needing anything done with it. This is why I spent so much, I'm hoping it'll last me years (for what I do on it) before it starts seeming kind of shit. I have all the nice graphical effects on, so windows swish about nicely when I move them. No performance issues. The temperature never gets out of the blue, either (there's a nice temp readout on the front of the case).
#46 Posted 05 December 2010 - 08:24 PM
The Commander, on Dec 5 2010, 04:50 PM, said:
Yep, but since he posted, I'll post now too.
I've had bad luck with ATI cards, I've had everything from minuscule driver error to the entire card blowing up and not working again. I've always had my favor towards NVIDIA I haven't had trouble with video card drivers up until just a few weeks ago when I tried using an AGP card with Windows 7. It's only under Legacy support now, so I couldn't get good drivers. The last video card I got though was an ATI Radeon HD 4650. I've had some driver issues when I tried using the latest drivers, at least under Windows, and some driver problems under Ubuntu (I'm assuming) with eduke32 HRP Polymer. It's a real nice board, but I'm still afraid that it's going to die soon because of the bad luck I've had.
It's kind of weird, I like AMD, but dislike ATI, I like NVIDIA, but I HATE their motherboards.(Really bad experiences)
#47 Posted 06 December 2010 - 09:33 AM
Here is hoping that the 10.12 driver will fix it all, but meh.
#48 Posted 06 December 2010 - 01:17 PM
The Commander, on Dec 6 2010, 12:33 PM, said:
Here is hoping that the 10.12 driver will fix it all, but meh.
Yeah, but it could also be the way that I was trying access it in the terminal. I don't know, I'm not a real Linux expert yet. Anyway, yeah, I am aware of the driver 10.5 working, at least under Windows, which I really don't like anymore, except for Windows XP, reasons why should be obvious.
#50 Posted 08 December 2010 - 05:34 AM
Martin - Dec 5 2010, 02:54 PM
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#52 Posted 30 December 2010 - 08:54 PM
Never had any issues my nVidia cards. My oldest 8800 GTS is still working after 5 years.
#53 Posted 07 January 2011 - 10:37 AM
#54 Posted 07 January 2011 - 05:48 PM
I have a monster pc and I always keep it like that because pc gaming is the best way to game.
Don't buy ati cards, their drivers suck ever since ati existed!
#55 Posted 07 January 2011 - 06:35 PM
#56 Posted 04 February 2011 - 01:59 PM
Mr.Deviance, on Jan 7 2011, 05:48 PM, said:
Sure they do. Actually I switched from nVidia to ATi in 2003 mainly because ATi's drivers and rendering quality were much better.
I've never really had any product loyalties until, well, ever. I went from two AMD's to two Intels and now I'm back to AMD. Same went for video cards. Oh, I have money on x and x dates? You're winning this part of the product cycle? Fine. Who gives a shit.
I now own a Zotac 2GB GTX 460, and due to product cycles and finances it's my fourth nVidia card in a row. I love the card, hate the shitty drivers. Between micro stuttering in a single card setup, random framerate drops in Borderlands, and crazy hitching in all Source titles, I was forced to run beta drivers. Don't even get me started on FreeSpace 2 Open's hitching, which would cause me to take damage sometimes.
The older drivers, which would have been eight months old when I needed these issues fixed, had plenty of their own and honestly, were only the second build of drivers designed for this card.
Honestly this seems pretty run of the mill for nV, when their drivers are bad, they are an abortion. I've had to run drivers that are a full year old multiple times in the past few years.
At least if ATi is shitty I can roll back one or two months. Not so much with nVidia. You take a far bigger performance and bugfix hit.
My next card? Well, it's gonna be an nVidia. Two 460 2GB cards in SLi is sex. But my next build will have ATi.
This post has been edited by Descent: 04 February 2011 - 02:01 PM
#57 Posted 08 May 2011 - 06:25 PM
Descent, on 04 February 2011 - 01:59 PM, said:
I've never really had any product loyalties until, well, ever. I went from two AMD's to two Intels and now I'm back to AMD. Same went for video cards. Oh, I have money on x and x dates? You're winning this part of the product cycle? Fine. Who gives a shit.
I now own a Zotac 2GB GTX 460, and due to product cycles and finances it's my fourth nVidia card in a row. I love the card, hate the shitty drivers. Between micro stuttering in a single card setup, random framerate drops in Borderlands, and crazy hitching in all Source titles, I was forced to run beta drivers. Don't even get me started on FreeSpace 2 Open's hitching, which would cause me to take damage sometimes.
The older drivers, which would have been eight months old when I needed these issues fixed, had plenty of their own and honestly, were only the second build of drivers designed for this card.
Honestly this seems pretty run of the mill for nV, when their drivers are bad, they are an abortion. I've had to run drivers that are a full year old multiple times in the past few years.
At least if ATi is shitty I can roll back one or two months. Not so much with nVidia. You take a far bigger performance and bugfix hit.
My next card? Well, it's gonna be an nVidia. Two 460 2GB cards in SLi is sex. But my next build will have ATi.
Bullshit. There is no such issue with any driver in those games that you've mentioned.
It might be your card itself that's shit since it's zotac.
It's also that 400's in general were overheating. If you read what I posted above some months ago, my 480 was recently toasted and I was planning to get an evga 580 which but since then I've decided on buying a msi 580 and a few weeks later I got a second 580 from msi.
The cards are perfect, they are cool and silent and the drivers perfect pristine in every single game that I've tried, including the ones you mentioned above.
Don't blame the products, blame your hardware or your windows config.
I still maintain what I've said months and years ago!
Ati drivers suck major ass and if mys single opinion is not enough for you then I can tell you that I have a few online friends from different countries, all gamers and all started being ati lovers and now they constantly bitch and whine about their ati drivers.
Why is it that only ati users bitch and while about their drivers and I only see an nvidia user criticize the drivers once every 10 years?
#58 Posted 08 May 2011 - 06:29 PM
#59 Posted 08 May 2011 - 06:38 PM
TX, on 08 May 2011 - 06:29 PM, said:
Don't worry, it's very easy to find somebody to agree with, when it comes to this subject because it's so overwhelmingly true.
I was merely stating the obvious.
I've noticed a breed of nvidia haters that simply accuse nvidia for non existing problems just so they prove that ati is equal to nvidia instead admitting that ati is completely destroyed from a competitive point of view.
This post has been edited by Mr.Deviance: 08 May 2011 - 07:55 PM