Which one is better?

**Regeneration** · October 2nd, 2007, 02:37 PM

Another cool poll for you to play with.

Unixlord · October 2nd, 2007, 04:08 PM

Nvidia is so superior it's not even funny. Miles ahead. I don't see ATI getting anywhere close in years to come. Linux, BSD, Solaris, SLI, AIGLX, performance, stability, ease of installation, every single one of those points pwns ATI silly. As for windows, well they're good enough (and still probably better).

**Chaos** · October 2nd, 2007, 04:56 PM

Well I have to say in a Windows world that they are very close one way or another. I actually prefer the CCC to the Nvidia Control Panel. Linux yes ATI is still behind but have made some major strides over the past few months

Mac Daddy · October 3rd, 2007, 01:14 AM

Voted

asdfXTXUltraPro · October 3rd, 2007, 02:18 AM

Ever since Vista hit, nvidia just sucked, and they still do.

ATI is lightyears ahead, with no hope for nvidia to play driver catch-up.
They also recently released the gpu specs for linux, so now there can be an open source linux driver.

With Ati quickly intruding on nvidia's sacred linux turf, there will soon be no safe niche market left for nvidia.

blindartist · October 3rd, 2007, 08:00 AM

nvidia was superior for a long long time, the ati drivers were always a little iffy, very often they had to play catch-up to their cards and you had to wait for the drivers to work well with the new ones also they always had problems with new games (nvidia did too but ati had many more), but now it seems ati's catalyst is quite decent, a couple little quircks i noticed with it, like it not switching your color settings after exiting a game with some games and the lack of a monitor calibration utility, but other then that it works quite well, and since ive switched from the evil douche bags at nvidia and am now a proud supporter of ATI i had to obviously vote ati. Cheers

Unixlord · October 3rd, 2007, 01:38 PM

Actually most ATI Linux users can't get the damn thing working (and it's the driver not their level of competence). Forceware on the other hand installs and works like a dream on every setup I've tested. Even with their latest efforts catalyst doesn't have the Opengl performance of forceware.
There must be competition in the driver department otherwise we'd be left with crap, rigged drivers.
Oh and the opensource HD driver is still a long way away from doing anything remotely useful (3D acceleration? pfft).

blindartist · October 3rd, 2007, 09:35 PM

Personally it makes no difference to me if the ati drivers dont work on other os's, as i dont use them and the other os's really dont work with many games (theres hardly anything even remotley good for them) so really who cares? Linux is great and all and i would use it if companies actually made products for it but till the day that games start comming out for linux as much as windows it will remain useless to me, less i want to start a server which doesnt really require a vid card.

gen.Rage1991hrv · October 3rd, 2007, 09:42 PM

going to say like Mac : VOTED
anyway nshitia always had better programmers than ati (sad but it is a true)

Unixlord · October 3rd, 2007, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by blindartist

...other os's ....(theres hardly anything even remotley good for them)...

There's nothing good with BSD and Solaris? Please, you're killing me! Seriously, there's a lot more to drivers than just 3D acceleration and gaming. Those OSes are very useful (maybe not for you), in fact indispensable. Research before giving opinion next time?

Sure you might not use SLI in Linux (so you don't care), but it's there and it works well. Now that equals a lot of hard work which can't be ignored. I would like to switch to ATI more than anything (DAAMIT they're good) but even with the recent improvements I'm not satisfied. That's why I still Nsist on Nvidia is that Nderstood? Give credit where due.