Unixlord

Suit yourself. I'm not trying to convert anyone, just emphasizing the difference between "is no use" and "can't use it yet". Never mind.

To catalyst users: How has the quality of catalyst drivers changed since AMD aquired ATI? (bar AGP issues)

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jula182

ATI Catalyst the best....

morbo

I`ll sit this one out
software is software

unless it totally sucks the biggie or you supposed too pay for it!!!!!

and we all tweak and make the most outta what we got

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IModAmd

Personatly ... long time not in my computer.... well i think ati put more efforts to have not the most faster graphics but the most beautiful one... so i voted for ati !

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shiva7663

Well, since ATI Catalyst drivers don't work too well with my Nvidia video cards, I'm going to have to side with Nvidia by default. heh.

CeeJay

Barring the AGP issues , the quality haven't changed and as far as I know neither have the ATI driver team, so that makes sense.

Each new driver still brings small improvements and bugfixes, though the 7.10 did bring a nice performance boost for users of the latest AMD cards.
But it takes time to finetune a new series so the first driver versions after a new card launch usually see improvements to that series.

I can't say if the 7.10 brought any performance boost for my old card , as it's AGP and I prefer my Direct3D games to work.
And I'm too lazy to do a driver mix of the 7.7 driver with 7.10 opengl.

blindartist

i think these poll's stay up here a bit too long nad some people end up double voting becasue it lets you vote again after a while, new poll plz

morbo

well
i just voted ati

cause of their cool driver naming thingy

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Silvianoshei

I agree 100% that ATI drivers are total crap. I have an X200 Integrated (plus a PCI-E ATI to take some of the load off the chipset), works really well, but the catalyst has been the source of all my problems. I need omega drivers to get it to work correctly, because the Catalyst Control Center causes so many stupid memory glitches and Direct3D glitches that you never know when it's gonna stop working. I recommend sticking with nVidia, because they seem to know how to make a driver properly.

blindartist

if your getting memory glitches its probably bad ram no the catalyst, i had the same thing a whole ago, youll be able to find work arounds for it using software that uses different memory addresses but eventually it will degrade to the point where it will sart corruping fileso n your hard drive, your problems have nothing to do with drivers. I (and many others) have used many versions of the catalyst without issue, its not your drivers that are the problem, you may want to start by getting a good registry cleaning program to find any errors that are most likely the cause of some of your problems, also id get new ram because memor errors are only caused by bad ram so it would be good to change it before its too late.