POLL: Nvidia and ATI driver problems

[Keysplayr]

I am looking to get a ratio for Nvidia to ATI driver problems. Do not post to this thread if you do not have any problems.
I ONLY want posts from users with driver problems with Nvidia or ATI please.

Thanks all,
Keys

 

[chsh1ca]

MSI GeForce 3 Ti200 128MB, Certain OpenGL games have very bad clipping (the ancient word for when background stuff is displayed over top of foreground stuff). I've noticed it principally in GLQuake, but also in OpenGL Warcraft III.

That, and the 41.xx detonators cause the card to basically get lost in Win98SE. I reboot after install, and voila, it can't see the card, redetects a new AGP card, installs it as an MSI GeForce 3 Ti 200, and lather, rinse, repeat. Fixed by reinstalling the 30.28 detonators.

 

[Keysplayr]

BUMP

 

[DarkKnight]

With the new catalyst 3.2 drivers, Quake 3 freezes and UT in opengl is screwed up.
I have an Ati Radeon 7200 PCI

 

[Guspaz]

Crud, voted for ATI when I meant nVidia. I've had tons of problems with the Dets.

 

[SickBeast]

Seeing as no Nvidia drivers aren't WHQL certified, everyone with an Nvidia card should be experiencing "problems". Try running 3dmark 2003. Apparently Nvidia cards can't do the minimum colour depth for directx9, so microsoft won't certify their drivers.

 

[Keysplayr]

3Dmark is irrelevant.

 

[SickBeast]

3Dmark is irrelevant.

Actually, it's the easiest way for people with different videocards to benchmark and compare their cards.

You sound pretty biased. I've read some of your other posts on here, and you're definitely an Nvidia fanboy.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

3Dmark is irrelevant.

Actually, it's the easiest way for people with different videocards to benchmark and compare their cards.

You sound pretty biased. I've read some of your other posts on here, and you're definitely an Nvidia fanboy.

I'll just say this once. I LIKE NVIDIA BETTER THAN ATI! YES I AM A FAN OF NVIDIA, NOT ATI! Call me what you will.
Oh and dave? How exactly is this poll (or I) biased? There are 3 choices and only one can be picked by each member.
I didn't want explanations of what card did what where and with what program. Just Driver problems. You apparently can't handle
this? It's so simple. I bet if you try, you can get through it. I know it's tough, but hang in there dave.

Keys "the fanboy"

 

[BFG10K]

No vendor is perfect, that's why I voted for both.

 

[Mem]

Seeing as no Nvidia drivers aren't WHQL certified, everyone with an Nvidia card should be experiencing "problems"

100% rock stable for 3 years with Nvidia drivers ,never had any problems .

 

[Lonyo]

Had 30.82 beta's, 42.86 beta's, both worked fine. Ran the 42.86's for ages, they were nice, decided to be "clever" and switch to the latest drivers on the nVidia website, and what happens? Crap performance in ReVolt. 200fps is all well and good, IF it's smoothe, but when it jerks, and had major slowdowns when something explodes (like 10fps) then it's just plain crap.
So, yeah, I want an ATi card damnit, I don't care if they have some driver issues, they have better cards.

 

[vss1980]

In my opinion its not the drivers which are the biggest factor in terms of stability for either nvidia or ati. That I attribute largely to motherboard and graphics card variations and compatibility issues.

I've seen no-name Geforce2 MX cards have no problems in the same machine with the same drivers when a named brand such as Asus had a few problem glitches.

As for game issues..... I think nvidia are still benefitting from having been the dominating force in the consumer 3D market for so long in the fact that many software houses now know inside and out how nvidia do things.
When nvidia was bringing out the Geforce, ATI had the reasonably performing Rage 128 and countered with the Rage Fury Maxx and fixes to bugs were slow and in the case of the MAXX cards non-existant for some things. Things have changed a bit since then.

I would actually think its safer to blame the game developers rather than the drivers..... surely if they test properly they would notice half the bugs that need to be fixed anyway and should tell the graphics card makers as I doubt having a game returned is in their interest.

 

[Keysplayr]

Bump again..

 

[Shade4ever]

I voted Nvidia, but it's not worth much:

a) I've never owned an ATI card (last purchase was a top-of-the-line original GF3, I believed ATI to still have river issues then)

b)My problem was with the STB Velocity 4400, a TNT1 card

c)The only issue was corrupt drivers on the packaged CD.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: Shade4ever
I voted Nvidia, but it's not worth much:

a) I've never owned an ATI card (last purchase was a top-of-the-line original GF3, I believed ATI to still have river issues then)

b)My problem was with the STB Velocity 4400, a TNT1 card

c)The only issue was corrupt drivers on the packaged CD.

You can't blame Nvidia for corrupt drivers on a CD which they didn't make.

 

[Nirvana1979]

I've found Nvidia's drivers crash a lot with DirectX games. The only solution I could find is using microsofts drivers....but then I can't play my open gl games!

 

[Torghn]

Looks like it's about even. The only problems I've had with ATI drivers are with refresh rates and dual monitors, not that big of a deal, but drives me nuts. Nvidia driver problems have caused stability problems. Less common, but more severe. Just what I've seen