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I'm always amazed when I see stuff like this. Nvidia's windows drivers crash all the time too. Neither company is capable of producing quality drivers, yet fa

by asdasf 13y ago

I'm always amazed when I see stuff like this. Nvidia's windows drivers crash all the time too. Neither company is capable of producing quality drivers, yet fanboys still want to insist one of the turds is made of gold.

taspeotis 13y ago
> Nvidia's windows drivers crash all the time too Counter anecdote mode: engage! As an owner of many Nvidia cards, I find they crash infrequently, and when they do it's because: * I was running Windows 8 Preview and pre-release Nvidia drivers * There was some sort of hardware problem with my systems I have used four ATI/AMD graphics cards over the years. Not all of them were negative experiences, but none of them were relatively more positive than using Nvidia hardware.
- dman 13y ago
  Counterpoint - ive found amd drivers to be pretty good on linux and they support multiple rotated monitors and color matching across multiple monitors much better than nvidia.
jmcintyre 13y ago
After using multiple Nvidia and ATI cards on many machines over the years, my anecdote is that ATI drivers crash far more frequently than Nvidia drivers.
barrkel 13y ago
I've been running a GTX 680 on Windows 7 for the past year, and count 0 crashes, none from the desktop nor games, though I'm been playing fewer and fewer games these days. Before that, I had an ATI HD 5870 for over a year. I had about 3 crashes on the desktop, some that lost me work. The anger from losing work is what I remember most strongly, and made me vow not to buy ATI next time. Before that, an 8800 GTX. I had 0 crashes from the desktop over several years. I was running Nouveau drivers on the 670 for no more than 60 seconds before it crashed.
rjbwork 13y ago
I've had both, non-consecutively over 6 different cards over the years. I've not had any large problems at all, and my current GTX 670 has been performing like a champ for about 15 months now, no video crashes.
regularfry 13y ago
I think it's like hard drives. You have a bad experience with one manufacturer and jump ship, and subconsciously justify that decision to yourself as rational because of how bad the experience was, not because the manufacturer you're jumping to is any better.

by asdasf 13y ago

taspeotis 13y ago

> Nvidia's windows drivers crash all the time too Counter anecdote mode: engage! As an owner of many Nvidia cards, I find they crash infrequently, and when they do it's because: * I was running Windows 8 Preview and pre-release Nvidia drivers * There was some sort of hardware problem with my systems I have used four ATI/AMD graphics cards over the years. Not all of them were negative experiences, but none of them were relatively more positive than using Nvidia hardware.

dman 13y ago
Counterpoint - ive found amd drivers to be pretty good on linux and they support multiple rotated monitors and color matching across multiple monitors much better than nvidia.

jmcintyre 13y ago

After using multiple Nvidia and ATI cards on many machines over the years, my anecdote is that ATI drivers crash far more frequently than Nvidia drivers.

barrkel 13y ago

I've been running a GTX 680 on Windows 7 for the past year, and count 0 crashes, none from the desktop nor games, though I'm been playing fewer and fewer games these days. Before that, I had an ATI HD 5870 for over a year. I had about 3 crashes on the desktop, some that lost me work. The anger from losing work is what I remember most strongly, and made me vow not to buy ATI next time. Before that, an 8800 GTX. I had 0 crashes from the desktop over several years. I was running Nouveau drivers on the 670 for no more than 60 seconds before it crashed.

rjbwork 13y ago

I've had both, non-consecutively over 6 different cards over the years. I've not had any large problems at all, and my current GTX 670 has been performing like a champ for about 15 months now, no video crashes.

regularfry 13y ago

I think it's like hard drives. You have a bad experience with one manufacturer and jump ship, and subconsciously justify that decision to yourself as rational because of how bad the experience was, not because the manufacturer you're jumping to is any better.