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railven

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How was Tomb Raider "great for consumers"? :eek:
AMD locked nVidia user out from playing that game for nearly 2 weeks. And even today there are problems the developer does not care to fix.

Just when I thought I saw it all. I don't care which pom-pom colors you have, this is absolute gold!

I haven't had this much fun since the days of Happy_Medium, and sadly I missed the Rollo fiasco.
 

bluesquare07

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Someone(s) had too many meds.

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How exactly am i trolling? Please explain to me how i am trolling.

Or is this your way of ignoring the truth. Don't reply to this, reply to my post. Tell me how i'm wrong.
 

bluesquare07

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Don't bother telling this guy the truth. He argued in another thread that it is factual that Nvidia has better drivers than AMD but cannot provide anything to back it up. As you can see, he'll argue how fantastic Nvidia drivers are no matter what.

I just did. Go ahead and post your info to make up how AMD is on par.
 

railven

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How exactly am i trolling? Please explain to me how i am trolling.

Or is this your way of ignoring the truth. Don't reply to this, reply to my post. Tell me how i'm wrong.

*Truth:

X-card is faster than Y-Card, here is my proof.

*Response:

What about these other games?

*Truth:

No, ONLY look at my proof, everything else doesn't matter.

*Response:

Oh, so much for the truth.
 

bluesquare07

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*Truth:

X-card is faster than Y-Card, here is my proof.

*Response:

What about these other games?

*Truth:

No, ONLY look at my proof, everything else doesn't matter.

*Response:

Oh, so much for the truth.

lol the amd fanboys are in so much denial. SHOW ME YOUR PROOF. Instead of posting useless replies

honestly the people on this board who are pro AMD are ridiculous. Post stuff to back up your claims, not make up stupid comments like posting pictures of NV pills.
 

railven

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lol the amd fanboys are in so much denial. SHOW ME YOUR PROOF. Instead of posting useless replies

Spin them wheels, you got the truth on your side! Next you'll be telling us the virtues of God, and the Republican way, cuase you got the TRUTH!

All be blessed...OMFG I'm sounding like TweakBoy. haha.

To the edit:

honestly the people on this board who are pro AMD are ridiculous. Post stuff to back up your claims, not make up stupid comments like posting pictures of NV pills.

The truth will save you, it will set you free! Accept it! Save yourself! AMD is red, red is the devil, 666 the mark of the beast!

Okay, I should get back to work.
 

bluesquare07

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spin them wheels, you got the truth on your side! Next you'll be telling us the virtues of god, and the republican way, cuase you got the truth!

All be blessed...omfg i'm sounding like tweakboy. Haha.

To the edit:



The truth will save you, it will set you free! Accept it! Save yourself! Amd is red, red is the devil, 666 the mark of the beast!

Okay, i should get back to work.

post what you believe is the truth or dont post at all.
 

blackened23

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Throwing fanboy (by either side) accusations around 24/7 is just annoying. This applies to wanderer as well with the same thing which included images of fanboy meme's.
 

bluesquare07

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Can you read this to yourself and realize how ridiculous you sound? Throwing fanboy (by either side) accusations around 24/7 is just annoying. As stated for the 100th time.

At least i can contribute to the discussion and back up my claims, as opposed to posting pictures of NV pills and contributing absolutely nothing but useless comments.
 

Jaydip

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I have not played dirt 3 as it does not interest me, but what exactly is horrible? I remember seeing AMD perform better in this title, but NV having no problem running the game. From a quick google, these are fairly old benchmarks now but nonetheless how exactly is it terrible? Again, i have not played the game and so i may be mistaken, but it does not look as bad as you make it seem (comparing to AC3 on AMD cards)
2. That does not explain anything as even with current titles NV is ahead...Does one driver update suddenly make them on par? no, it doesn't.
3. You have the option of not updating. I run TR with my 670 with no problems on 1080p.

1. IIRC(too lazy to Google) even a lowly 7850 performs better than Titan in this title, that is unsettling for me :D also what is this AC3 issue you speak about? my brother has an asus 7950 dc ii top and ac3 runs fine on his card.
2.I am not sure how should we rate the performance of the cards, by looking at the recent or year old benches? both camps drop patches like bombs now a days, so I wouldn't be surprised if the situation reverses.AMD had some serious issues in some games and it drew flak from most of the reviewers, thankfully they have learned form their mistakes.
3.That defeats the purpose of patches does it not?
 

thilanliyan

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There are FAR more AMD fanboys than NV and FAR more crap spewing by AMD fanboys.

Unless you're back under a different name, you haven't been here long enough. There are and have been some real rabid nV fanboys, and some of them have been banned so you may not have seen it. Swing by the alienbabeltech forums, you'll meet a bunch of them there.

I agree with you that Keys for example takes a lot of flak for his nV affiliation, but so would anyone in his shoes (whether nV or AMD affiliated). Keys was nV biased from a long time ago (he would admit as much), so of course he is going to take some flak, and him becoming part of the focus group made it worse, understandably so, I'd expect the same if I was in his shoes as well.
 

wand3r3r

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At least i can contribute to the discussion and back up my claims, as opposed to posting pictures of NV pills and contributing absolutely nothing but useless comments.

I backed up my claims against your implications, you choose to ignore them. What else are you doing but proceeding to troll. Well done.
 

wand3r3r

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I just did. Go ahead and post your info to make up how AMD is on par.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34898695&postcount=65

You claim NV drivers are so superior, yet the 680 and 7970G are neck and neck in this game. The other cards are pretty surprisingly close to their price/performance. This is in a game which favors nv (UE3).

You haven't demonstrated how they are better than the opponent, NV is losing overall in price/performance.

So you just keep trolling about some supposed superiority, yet you have nothing to back it up other than NV getting more fps in what 5 out of 20 games? What about the whole list of games where they are losing? (not being published yesterday is no excuse)

Heres the problem, you pretend like a win or two makes NV superior. They are losing overall (referring to 7970G to 680) in $/performance. The game bundles only make it moreso. Yes, they get this title (barely in said case), but you're the only one foolishly applying it across the board into something about a superior brand.
 
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Xarick

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I hated it when AMD took over ATI. The very first thing AMD did was change all the install folders on the graphics drivers and it took me forever to fix.
 

SirPauly

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There may of been a change in resources and direction -- the experimental AA modes were gone and many titles had behavior flags that forced only application modes.

For example: I had a 1900XTX Crossfire platform and enjoyed WoW and used the x10 AA setting, which was a hybrid mode with x8 MS and a virtual free hit Full Scene x2 RGSSAA component -- would sometimes use EATM or adaptive transparency AA in conjunction.

AMD used a behavior flag for WoW and couldn't use Super AA anymore and was forced to use application, and the image quality suffered and noticeable micro-stuttering with AFR. The experience greatly suffered and left AMD/ATI for nVidia.

Also, Catalyst AI turned off all optimizations including CrossFire -- I couldn't disable filtering optimizations without turning off CrossFire - had enough.

Been so impressed by the quality and flexibility offered from nVidia.
 

Red Hawk

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At least i can contribute to the discussion and back up my claims, as opposed to posting pictures of NV pills and contributing absolutely nothing but useless comments.

Back up your claims? As if. You dismissed my points with an appeal to authority fallacy, when that authority wasn't even really supporting your claims, and a poisoning the well fallacy by implying I'm just saying things because I use some AMD hardware and thus am an AMD fanboy. Fallacies =/= contributing to discussion and backing up claims.

Nvidia and AMD fanboys in previous lives were the McCoys and Hatfields.

Fixed. :sneaky: