Stay away from nVidia! (rant)

onelifecrisis · 11-24-09, 10:05 PM

In 2003 I switched from nVidia to ATI and stuck with ATI... until very recently. I now have a new GTX 260 and I'm gradually working my way back through nVidia's enormous catalogue of drivers trying to find one that just works. The current drivers have a bug which has been listed in their release notes under "known issues" for more than six months now. The drivers from seven months ago don't have that bug, they have other bugs instead. And I'm not talking about minor bugs here: I'm talking about being unable to select my native resolution, or being unable to get TRAA working in any of my games, or huge graphical corruptions that can only be fixed by switching drivers or messing with cvars using the in-game console (I'm talking about Crysis with that last one). I used to think ATI were bad because of their slightly finicky control panel apps, but I now realise that was a small price to pay for drivers that just frickin work!

Bah! Buyer beware.

11-24-09, 10:05 PM	#1
onelifecrisis Maverick Modder Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England Posts: 3,895 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 3	Stay away from nVidia! (rant) In 2003 I switched from nVidia to ATI and stuck with ATI... until very recently. I now have a new GTX 260 and I'm gradually working my way back through nVidia's enormous catalogue of drivers trying to find one that just works. The current drivers have a bug which has been listed in their release notes under "known issues" for more than six months now. The drivers from seven months ago don't have that bug, they have other bugs instead. And I'm not talking about minor bugs here: I'm talking about being unable to select my native resolution, or being unable to get TRAA working in any of my games, or huge graphical corruptions that can only be fixed by switching drivers or messing with cvars using the in-game console (I'm talking about Crysis with that last one). I used to think ATI were bad because of their slightly finicky control panel apps, but I now realise that was a small price to pay for drivers that just frickin work! Bah! Buyer beware.