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I have this kind of problems with ATI, disregarding the driver version i change, old, new ... from ATI, from Omega...

This problems was present into a X800 XL, X800 XT, X800 XT PE, and even into a X850 XT... finally i decide to stay with the X800 XT PE... not to much performance diference with X850 XT, and lot of low price... in that age i buyed this card.

This problem is present into SH III, SH IV, IL-2 all saga.... plus into the U-Imperial Flottilla pre alpha by Deamon from this forum.

Nothing seems to fix this problem, i tryied all settings into the driver control panel and ingame settings.

The only thing wich seems to avoid it was to underclock the default settings. W XP is up to date, Dx is up to date. Omega drivers seems to help a lot.

But it happens into 4 diferent card models, X800 XL, X800 XT, X800 XT PE, and X850 XT.

I didnt experience it into SH IV up to patch V1.2 was out...

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Originally Posted by melb00m

Reading this thread gives me the impression that it could be right that ATI users tend to have more trouble with their video card, and that´s what I experienced, too.

I´m not saying these are overally bad, but the two times I tried them I had nothing but trouble, and it seems that those still aren´t really solved for everyone.

Of course it might be the case that they run fine in some or even most cases or configurations, but looking at the number of complaints of users with ATI cards in this thread alone, compared to the complaints of NVidia users, it´s safe to say that you have a lower risk of running into trouble when buying NVidia.

Agreed. I (all of us) have seen the dreaded "ATI vs Nvidia' thread on many forums over the past few years and the general consensus always seems to lean towards ATI cards giving their users more trouble than Nvidia users. ATI seems to always have the edge in the overall looks of a given game but Nvidia always seems to have the edge in actual gameplay, which I think in most gamers opinion is more important. The stats for the upcoming R600 sound awesome and even though I'm an Nvidia user, I'm interested in this new ATI card. We'll see, its tuff to leave stability for looks.