interesting.......
I used to have an ATI 9800 pro 256MB. Swore by ATI and the 9800 pro was a lovely card, bought it brand new and it kept up for years, and yeah I used omega drivers.
Finally decided to replace it as it was beginning to struggle, about 18 months back or so.
After long studies went for the Nvidia 7950gx2 (1 gig ram), basically 2 7900's strapped together in the factory. Bought that becasue, at the time it was faster than anything ATI had (in the majority of the benchmarks test attributes) and to buy an ATI SLI system, would have cost nearly twice as much.
On XP the 7950 was/is great, stable and mind blowing performance. I can crank everything up to full easily. Running Vista now and I admit I have had problems in SH4, the externa cam doesnt like going underwater, although for that, I soley blame MS and Nvidia for not talking to one another, not Ubi. Its a known fact the nvidia vista drivers are beta and not entirely stable.
Some games under vista run flawlessly some do crash a bit.
But overall, I love my nvidia card, and woldnt swap it for an ATI....
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