Heh, you have to keep in mind that AMD does monthly WHQLs and a ton of betas. They are releasing a lot of drivers. Most of my friends use the latest always and have no problems.
All of which is irrelevant. His point would be that it is better to properly vet drivers and release them less often then release more drivers that have serious bugs.
Please try to not turn this into NV vs AMD
An excellent idea, too bad the rest of your post is doing exactly that by ripping on nvidia's drivers, which encourages people to "have the last word" by replying to your accusations, which turns this into an NV vs AMD... word to the wise, if you want to prevent such a debate, then don't participate in it while calling for it to stop.
I know there's a massive propaganda machine behind Nvidia.
That is just uncalled for; you are suggesting he is being duped by propaganda which is attacking him instead of what he is saying, don't do that.
I just thought it would be a cool thing to know from AMD users. NV users need not try to spin this into some sort of "AMD has worse drivers" propaganda.
It isn't users that are the source of propaganda and this is bordering on personal attack, rather then deconstruct his arguments you simply pronounce him as propaganda source and thus all he said must be ignored as false.
They don't. Do a little google searching and find your own evidence if you have no anecdotal.
http://www.google.com/search?q=nvid...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
3rd result- WARNING! NVIDIA 196.75 drivers can kill your graphics card | ZDNet... yeah, that's awesome. NV also has issues currently with one of my favorite games, Kings Bounty.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1339585 So let's not go down that road. You really don't want to, as it's misleading that NV has superior drivers.
1. And despite all your protests to not make this AMD vs nVidia you just go ahead and claim that nvidia has inferior drivers. fail.
2. FYI, one guy in a forum saying that driver such and such has a problem? that is anecdotal evidence... it is no better / worse then his anecdotal evidence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
For it to be non anecdotal evidence it has to not be hearsay AND has to have sufficiently large sample size to draw conclusions from. However, you assume that he only raises issues that he did not verify were real by confirming others also have them.
3. Yes, nvidia drivers have bugs. I am especially upset at the king's bounty issue that makes it unplayable on my GTX260. But that doesn't make the nv drivers worse as a whole (there are many more games on both sides that don't work in newest drivers)
I have used every AMD driver this year, and all of them are perfectly usable.
Then why would anyone ever use anything but the latest driver? or why would anyone even need to upgrade their drivers?
No driver from AMD or nVidia is perfectly stable or we will never have to update them.
Bottom line is, both companies have varied driver issues, both companies work to fix them, and who has "better" drivers should not hijack this thread... so as the OP, please avoid extolling AMD while ripping on nvidia and just limit yourself to a "don't discuss this here as it is irrelevant to this thread" if someone tries to. This thread is meant to compare different AMD drivers not a flame war (I hope)...
PS and FYI: I own both nvidia and AMD cards. And with specific exceptions use the latest drivers on both.
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