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Is today 6700 release day?

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Sorry but i had a 8800 for years. Just switched to a 5850 and I have had to do more tweaking and hacking to get several games to work. Even newer games like sc2 still have bugs. I am not saying NV is perfect. But it is ATIs weakest point by far. New cards are nice, but drivers need to be brought to a higher level to make it exciting.
 
Xarick said:
Sorry but i had a 8800 for years. Just switched to a 5850 and I have had to do more tweaking and hacking to get several games to work. Even newer games like sc2 still have bugs. I am not saying NV is perfect. But it is ATIs weakest point by far. New cards are nice, but drivers need to be brought to a higher level to make it exciting.
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what sc2 bugs have you had? I've got a 4890 didn't have any probs.
 
Xarick said:
Sorry but i had a 8800 for years. Just switched to a 5850 and I have had to do more tweaking and hacking to get several games to work. Even newer games like sc2 still have bugs. I am not saying NV is perfect. But it is ATIs weakest point by far. New cards are nice, but drivers need to be brought to a higher level to make it exciting.
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I'm curious what kind of tweaking you've had to do on what games to get them to work. I haven't had to "tweak" any game to work in over a decade.
 
dguy6789 said:
I'm curious what kind of tweaking you've had to do on what games to get them to work. I haven't had to "tweak" any game to work in over a decade.
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Have a 4870 for SC2, didn't have any issues that I'm aware of.

Had to do a lot of tweaking with FO3 though, but that's not an ATI/AMD issue. Thats Gamebyro being a crapfest.
 
sc2 bug is well known. You can play for a while and the cursor will wig out. Where it becomes a bunch of lines. Then all the sudden back to normal. I have had to tweak, gothic 3, stalker and a couple others. Yes they are old buggy games, but my NV card worked without issue. But this is not a driver thread. I am saying that I would be more excited about the 6800s if the drivers were far better. Hardware wise this is the best card I have had in a long time. It runs cooler and quieter than my 8800gts and the colors are far better.
 
Xarick said:
sc2 bug is well known. You can play for a while and the cursor will wig out. Where it becomes a bunch of lines. Then all the sudden back to normal. I have had to tweak, gothic 3, stalker and a couple others. Yes they are old buggy games, but my NV card worked without issue. But this is not a driver thread. I am saying that I would be more excited about the 6800s if the drivers were far better. Hardware wise this is the best card I have had in a long time. It runs cooler and quieter than my 8800gts and the colors are far better.
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I have not experienced the cursor bug with my 4870 512M under the 10.8s or 10.9s myself. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist though.

Complaining about Gothic 3 though? Every card, every system, from every vendor needs to tweak that thing to get it run at all. Its one of the buggiest POSs ever made. 😛
 
Xarick said:
Sorry but i had a 8800 for years. Just switched to a 5850 and I have had to do more tweaking and hacking to get several games to work. Even newer games like sc2 still have bugs. I am not saying NV is perfect. But it is ATIs weakest point by far. New cards are nice, but drivers need to be brought to a higher level to make it exciting.
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Did you fully wipe all the Nvidia drivers? Switching from Nvidia to ATI, or ATI to Nvidia seems to be problematic without a good scrubbing.
 
I was under the impression that the NDA expired tonight @ midnight. Guess I'm wrong, although there still is 4 hours left.
 
x1222 said:
It's Oct 22nd now? Geez, the release date always seems to be on the move.
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One has to set a release for a release date to 'move'.

The best dates we have had are this week some time. 18 being the first day, 22 being the last.. Patience as always.
 
netxzero64 said:
too many people are waiting for the 6 bang bang bang release
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Exciting release 🙂

Just saw some images of the 6870 and 6850 at Tech Report. They are benchmarking them right now 😉

They are also showing off AMD Llano confirming mid 2011 release
 
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WaTaGuMp said:
People will never stop saying they have bad drivers it seems. I find it funny, since I had huge drivers issues with my 8800GTX back in the days.
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Same as, regular nvlddmkm.sys crashes (although I'm not sure who to blame, Nvidia, vista or both!). Never had an ATi driver problem but I am still avoiding Xfire.
 
nemesismk2 said:
Exciting release 🙂

Just saw some images of the 6870 and 6850 at Tech Report. They are benchmarking them right now 😉

They are also showing off AMD Llano confirming mid 2011 release
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i have a pair of them. We were allowed to preview them on our respective sites a few hours ago and show the images.

Define "exciting"

i found Llano pretty exciting
 
apoppin said:
i have a pair of them. We were allowed to preview them on our respective sites a few hours ago and show the images.

Define "exciting"

i found Llano pretty exciting
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I found Llano exciting as well, its going to make for some interesting upgrade options next year for my general use computer. What is most exciting is upgrading. I have already upgraded my 4770 to GTS 450 and now it's time for something better than my 4870. What I am looking at is maybe GTX 460 1GB or something from AMD.
 
blastingcap said:
Media embargo lifts midnight on Thursday. Possibly the cards will be available for purchase then as well.
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AMD does love their paper launches, so I wouldn't count on it.

But hell, I hope everything goes amazing for AMD, and Nvidia, the more competition, the more prices are lowered, and the better for all consumers.
 
Petey! said:
AMD does love their paper launches, so I wouldn't count on it.

But hell, I hope everything goes amazing for AMD, and Nvidia, the more competition, the more prices are lowered, and the better for all consumers.
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Perhaps, but what you wrote goes completely against the vast majority of rumors out there for hard launches, and AMD hard-launched Cypress last year with worse 40nm availability than this year. Thus I see no basis for what you wrote. NV seems to agree with the rumors, because according to HardOCP, GTX 460-1GB and GTX 470 will get price cuts in a few days.
 
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