26.04.2010, 13:12
Started with ATI a long time ago, then the driver situation went really bad. So I switched to NVIDIA. ATI doesn't seem to be serious about having ready drivers when the card comes out, has that changed ?
Always a lot a patience when you buy an ATI card to wait for the drivers to stabilize: personal experience.
Buy an NVIDIA, install driver, end of story. Maybe not 100% of features installed on the first day, but always stable (with that little exception of a bad one for time to time, but always rapidly fixed.)
Also, Flight Sims have different requirements than shooters...check out the reviews with Flight Sims in them, IIRC NVIDIA seems to always come out on top. In matters of FPS they are generally very close to one another anyway.
ATI is just a sticker now, the building was renamed "AMD Markham". ATI logo is nowhere to be seen, they are probably moving everything to the states for good. ATI was a Canadian company once...Until the drivers were so bad...
Always a lot a patience when you buy an ATI card to wait for the drivers to stabilize: personal experience.
Buy an NVIDIA, install driver, end of story. Maybe not 100% of features installed on the first day, but always stable (with that little exception of a bad one for time to time, but always rapidly fixed.)
Also, Flight Sims have different requirements than shooters...check out the reviews with Flight Sims in them, IIRC NVIDIA seems to always come out on top. In matters of FPS they are generally very close to one another anyway.
ATI is just a sticker now, the building was renamed "AMD Markham". ATI logo is nowhere to be seen, they are probably moving everything to the states for good. ATI was a Canadian company once...Until the drivers were so bad...