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Originally Posted by jbt308
Being a long time ATI fan, I bought a XT800 for my latest PC, and promptly returned it, as its performance was quite subpar. Wife let me have an early Christmas and I got the 7800GT, first nVidia card in like 5 years. So far, all the issues that I had with my prior ATI cards have disappeared, however, now I'm running into the nVidia problems associated with SH3.
My 9700pro ran SH3 great, when it wasn't crashing. Looked awesome. Now I've got some of the glitches that many of you talk about. Some went away with the newest nVidia drivers, but some are still there. Most irritating of all is the sidebar menu changing from hi-res to low-res depending on what station I'm at. Kinda disappointing, but what're you gonna do. At least the games stopped crashing.
In the end, I think it's 6:1/Half-dozen to the other. ATI, in my experience, has had fairly reliable drivers released on a pretty strict schedule. However, they've seemed to be pretty finicky gaming wise. Sometimes they work flawlessly, other times, not so much. Like a diva actress or an Italian sportscar.
nVidia, from what I've seen/read about, seems to rely on brute strenght of the card, but their drivers are like frickin mooch brother-in-laws, you never know when they're gonna work.
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I agree with you that ATI and Nvidia focuses on different things.
For Nvidia is mostly about the speed.
For ATI its about speed and image quality.
It has been tested with some people in regards to SH3 and SH3 should look better with a ATI card.
I just got a ATI X850 XT PE for the same price as a 6800 GT(I got a really good deal).
The ATI has a better/same performance, but for sure better image quality.