ATI and stability

[11427]

I ran a Radeon PCI 32MB SDR card for about 3 years,.. maybe longer. Anyway, the only problem I had was getting it to work with Linux so I finally upgraded to an nVidia Ti4400. Everything was rock solid, had the card oc'd 10% and my 2500+ running at 3200+ and 400fsb speeds. No problems with games, or anything.
Now the Ti4400 is gone (on to another machine) and I picked up another Radeon, this time a 9600XT. Problems??? Dunno, maybe its my imagination, but it seems to be slower and not nearly as stable. I've had to reboot a nuber of times for odd color problems and a few more times when games have locked up. I do have the latest Catalyst 3.10 drivers and did a clean install.
Anyone else experience anything like this? Maybe an nVidia driver hanging around somewhere? Thoughts?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[TourGuide]

I was running a Ti4600 for about 1.5 years before the 9800 I have now.

The only issues I have run into have been some funny texture handling in COD and GTA3. Some textures get striped (for both GTA3 and COD) and in COD I had one level where some of the germans faces were all blue-ish. No desktop issues whatsoever, just those games. UT2003 works great, and everything else I've played so far.

I simply used Driver Cleaner and am running Cat 3.10s.

I will say that I never had a problem like this with any nV card I ever owned (unless the hardware was bad). I just wish nV hardware was up to spec across the board. I can tolerate these issues temporarily because I know there is a fix coming in the form of a driver remedy.

I would jump back to nV though if they offered comparable performance in all applications.

 

[Rogodin2]

ATI has new Linux drivers up-don't know if you've tried them yet.

rogo

 

[hans007]

nvidia has historically had far better 3d support in linux.


however for windows, i dunno i've used both and they seem perfectly stable. granted i dont o/c but they both seem just as stable as the other for most things

 

[cindy22]

11427 - if you tried everything else than could you try reformat ?


TourGuide - in gta3 vice city I used to have had a problem with texture sometimes not loading in time ,while driving in all areas ,until I heard about a fix by running the gta3 vice city shortcut in windows 98 compatibility mode and turning frame limiter off ,that fixed the problem.
I'm not sure if it will work in gta3 though but it's worth a try . hope that works for you too

 

[Rogodin2]

I just received a call from ha nostri (jesus) and he told me to tell you that you should use OS X instead of linux-even though it makes no sense; he also said that you'll be receiving a pound of jamacian blue mountain in the next 2 weeks.

godspeed lad.

rogo

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
I just received a call from ha nostri (jesus) and he told me to tell you that you should use OS X instead of linux-even though it makes no sense; he also said that you'll be receiving a pound of jamacian blue mountain in the next 2 weeks.

godspeed lad.

rogo

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
I just received a call from ha nostri (jesus) and he told me to tell you that you should use OS X instead of linux-even though it makes no sense; he also said that you'll be receiving a pound of jamacian blue mountain in the next 2 weeks.

godspeed lad.

rogo

Are you ok man??? This days you act very strange...

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: TourGuide
I was running a Ti4600 for about 1.5 years before the 9800 I have now.

The only issues I have run into have been some funny texture handling in COD and GTA3. Some textures get striped (for both GTA3 and COD) and in COD I had one level where some of the germans faces were all blue-ish. No desktop issues whatsoever, just those games. UT2003 works great, and everything else I've played so far.

I simply used Driver Cleaner and am running Cat 3.10s.

I will say that I never had a problem like this with any nV card I ever owned (unless the hardware was bad). I just wish nV hardware was up to spec across the board. I can tolerate these issues temporarily because I know there is a fix coming in the form of a driver remedy.

I would jump back to nV though if they offered comparable performance in all applications.

I thought they did, in the form of 5700Ultra and all 5900's. IMO. I have the 5900nu. Pretty durable as far as far as stamina is concerned.
What I mean is, it doesn't suffer when you turn things way up. AA has improved (not yet up to ATI snuff) with drivers and they offer just as good if not better AF as ATI.