ATI or nVidia?

And, on which base people are supposed to answer ??? Nothing is known about the next ATI chip afaik....

Well this poll is off because both companies first of all have their strong and weakpoints. And a company never stays on top forever, ATI were on top, now its NVIDIA and we will have to see what the new ATI card brings.

So there isn't a king of the hill but when it comes to personal prefernce I'll take NVIDIA, because ATI's drivers have been shit since 3.10

Edit: you also spelt NVIDIA wrong

ATI's drivers have been shit since 3.10

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How do you come to this opinion ? Since 4.4 , the drivers are very nice

H3ad5h0tter said:

How do you come to this opinion ? Since 4.4 , the drivers are very nice

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With every driver release comes a new problem, they are too busy trying to cram new features in they hardly even bother with bug fixing. The latest gamma hotfix takes a problem and makes it even worse. There has been a gamma problem in the catalyst drivers since 3.10 with OGL that has still to be resolved despite numerous complaints. Then there is the issue with Instant messenger notifications causing graphic errors and flat out removing parts of maps until the notificated goes. Just yesterday I had to upgrade my drivers simply to get Battlefield 1942 working after I installed it, so now I'm stuck with the gamma problem until they see fit to bother fixing it. My next card is definately going to be a NVIDIA card.

I'm highly impressed with ATI's drivers or rather lack of

Aside from the disastor of the NV30, NVIDIA have pretty much been rock solid.

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Then there is the issue with Instant messenger notifications causing graphic errors and flat out removing parts of maps until the notificated goes

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Why do you bother of this ? It can be used as a nice wallhack (i've tried it out , it works nice ^_^) ! You can also put trillian off or turn the notifications off....

And a gamma problem ? Wheres a gamma problem ? If you don't have an ATI card , don't play "the expert" .... <-- OK , im dumb

I still prefer nVidia despite their hiccup that in DX9 the NV30 couldn't keep up with ATi. My card is compatible with all the current N64 plugins 100% so I'm happy! At least I know I can use glN64()'s framebuffer and Rice's Video plugin without any fuck-ups like I would have with a Radeon card. This matters to me more than frame rates.

I've had much experience with nVidia cards and their capabilities. My uncle has had a GeForce2 MX and a FX 5600, and I've had a GeForce4 MX and a FX 5600, all very reliable. I play emulated games much more than any PC game, and 70% of my PC games are 2D or very old (DX7 games or below), so shaders doesn't come into it, and yet I can still play games like UT2004 with max settings and additional filtering at 1280x1024 if I so wished. Most new PC games I hate, eg. "Generic 3rd person stealth shoot 'em up #35253" so I'd rather play Doom or Command and Conquer.

The 6800 U proves that nVidia learned from past mistakes and now ATi are the one's who are vulnerable. ATi's past is even worse than nVidia - their Rage Pro cards were utter shit, and they were second to NVIDIA for ages until the magic 9700 Pro was released that set ATi back on track, beating the GeForce4 Ti line. If it weren't for the 9700 Pro then they would still be second in the business.

Zis is my personal preference, like I prefer Galaxy chocolate over Cadbury chocolate so I would make that much a big deal about it.

H3ad5h0tter said:

If you don't have an ATI card , don't play "the expert" ....

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*tsk* Check vampireuk's profile...

I will vote for nVidia, since unluckily, nVidia is what you can find most here at the south of the world. Just a few months ago the first radeons started to appear major stores, but unfortunately the prices are way too high. nVidia has the lead here, being good or not.

At least I know I can use glN64()'s framebuffer and Rice's Video plugin without any fuck-ups like I would have with a Radeon card.

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There are no more Fuck-Ups with Rice's on a radeon so far , but gln64 : *sigh* , no comment

My old GF4Ti had the same fuck-ups like my new Radeon , too , actually it doesn't seem to matter what card you are using...

the 9800 series continued to be defend the new achieved ati crown against nvidia's fx's (are we still talking about gfx cards?)

MHAHAHAHA!!

Won't be seeing these on any Radeon card with lastest drivers!

Ok , ok , i shut up

I think Rice will fix these fuck-ups on radeon cards , he has a Radeon himself (and his old geforce , too) so he can test it , if something gets wrong .

Clements said:

Zis is my personal preference, like I prefer Galaxy chocolate over Cadbury chocolate so I would make that much a big deal about it.

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I prefer Galaxy too

H3ad5h0tter said:

Why do you bother of this ? It can be used as a nice wallhack (i've tried it out , it works nice ^_^) ! You can also put trillian off or turn the notifications off....

And a gamma problem ? Wheres a gamma problem ? If you don't have an ATI card , don't play "the expert" .... <-- OK , im dumb

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Yes it can be used as a wallhack, nice to know you cheat in multiplayer games. And yes if you turn off the notifications then it does not happen. That however is beside the point, it is still a issue with ATI drivers that needs to be resolved. The gamma issue in OGL is experienced by A LOT of ATI users, the gamma settings do not save and change periddically. I'm speaking as a user of a ATI card too, which is why I said my next card will be NVIDIA :bunny:

hybrid23 said:

the 9800 series continued to be defend the new achieved ati crown against nvidia's fx's (are we still talking about gfx cards?)

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Well yeah....if you ignore the 6800

Xade said:

Right, once and for all, let's see who the emutalk masses love.

In the blue corner we've got NVIDIA, getting ready to launch their FX 6800.

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It's not a fx