I’ll never pass an opportunity to bash ATI… good card on paper, but terrible drivers.
I’ve owned about 8 NVidia cards and I’ve never had a major graphics issue, and never had a bad one. The one time I bought a package deal computer that came with an ATI card I had nothing but problems with it. It crashed during updates all the time and a lot of games had some bad visual artifacts in them. Replaced it with an NVidia card and it’s been flawless since then.
The last time I had an Nvidia card, it took trying SEVEN different driver sets before it didn’t have critical issues with the three fairly-modern games I was playing.
And of course you need to nuke down with Nvidia’s every time rather than upgrading.
Sepiche - So you blame ATI rather than the package deal computer? I can pretty much guarantee it was improperly installed drivers, which needed scrubbing.
charmtrap - Waiting a few months before paying games is going to stop issues with either, sure! :)
You know what I’ve done recently? Uninstalled the ATI drivers. Too many times, I found their control panel resident stuff eating away at my memory, exhibiting what is apparently a known memory leak bug under W7-64.
So, I uninstalled the drivers, and let Windows Update install their version of the ATI drivers, without all the silly control panel stuff. Works wonders. No problems, much less memory usage. Of course, D3 just told me my drivers were out of date, but it told me that over beta, and I didn’t have problems there, either.
I assume you mean nuking the drivers? You’re behind the times…you just click install. No need to uninstall, not even a reboot required.
Cal
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Sounds like you haven’t had a nvidia card in a long long time. Their drivers are superb these days, you certainly dont have to nuke the drivers - although if you really want to their installer have an option to do just that. You no longer even need a reboot updating nvidia drivers with their new auto updater.
ATI’s own website has the driver only download package, if you want to get those. I think Windows Update usually lists one or two versions behind the most recent stable release.
With Nvidia cards, this remains a seriously unwise idea, it can fail to copy over the correct file versions sometimes. It’s only when you’re going back versions with the ATI’s this is necessary.
mystery - Or you could just have installed the driver-only package, or unchecked the CCC under the installer. Or you could disable the actual culprit, hydravision, once. (You can also fix it by disabling one feature, but unless you’re actually using it…)
Cal - Sorry, this is based on recent (Feb) analysis of their installer. It’s still not overwriting files correctly (better than it was, but…).
Basically, people are getting upset because of a FIX for certain older cards. This is fricking ludicrous and why I’m not amused.
Oh, well. Pardon us milord!
Based on what? Can you provide a link? The half-a-dozen or so times I’ve done it now it’s been perfectly seamless.
Sorry duder, but I know how to maintain a computer. I uninstalled and reinstalled drivers and the card multiple times to no effect. Once I swapped the ATI card out for an NVidia all my graphics problems disappeared. It was the shitty ATI card and it’s drivers without question.
markv
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News at 11 - nVidia and ATI both have driver issues from time to time. Extra Extra hear all about it!
I once swapped out an nVidia card with an ATI card and my problems went away. I also had the same thing happen by swapping out an ATI card with an nVidia card and my problems went away.
Different drive sets performing differently for different games, shocker!
They both have their ups and downs. nVidia gets a point for not having as many driver issues over the years. ATI a the point for not destroying video cards because of their driver issues.
Cal
4592
Im sorry, you are wrong, i have worked with Nvidia testing drivers and their driver updating process without a reboot is pretty close to flawless.
My team has installed custom drivers provided by nvidia for our games and O/S software 1000’s of times and not once had any issues barring a few faulty cards.
We have much few issues with nvidia drivers these days, not those ATI drivers… they can be a royal pain in the arse. I do admit 5 years ago this was the reverse, although not these days.
Amazon.uk still hasn’t shipped my copy, bah.
Cal
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I have a lot of friends in the UK, whose amazon accounts say not shipped, but they got their copies today anyways. Although perhaps takes a day longer if you are in Portugal?
Since it’s the CE, i’m not sure how it works out. I guess i’ll be playing at the end of the week :/
LMN8R
4596
Newegg just shipped my copy this morning. Probably won’t have it till Thursday :-(
It was seriously hard to resist watching all the class cinematics from the main menu… I watched the barbarian one for act 1 intro then cut myself off.
I had my wallet stolen a couple of weeks ago, so I had to get all new credit cards, etc. I knew it was possibly as issue, so I made sure to update my Newegg account with the latest address and credit card info.
So I got an email just now from Newegg, and they tried the old card info and when that didn’t go through, they cancelled my order. Now I’ve called them and have been on hold for 15 minutes so far, not talking to a single real person yet. Sigh.
Marcus
4599
That is pretty shitty of them. My bank gave me a new card a few weeks ago and I forgot to update the one on file with Amazon. I get an email that my order is on hold till I fix it. I update my new card and problem solved order is going to ship like before.
Is this game going to have save anywhere ability, or is it waypoint-based like D2?
