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Nvidia bash ATI

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edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
The head developer of Nvidia's ForceWare MM products has lashed out at ATI for their apparently poor quality drivers.

[blockquote]Johnnyb,
ATI's Cat 4.2 drivers are terrible (alright they just plain suck) with HDTV playback on either VMR7 or VMR9 using DXVA. I should know, I tried them myself on a 9600 pro. No problem on a GeForce FX 5700 though... As for the softer look on VMR9, again, the drivers and hardware are the ones doing the job here, not the decoder. Also if the PC is rebooting on a crash, it's likely the BSOD kernel fault in the display driver. XP should tell you this after rebooting. In any case, our software has very little control over the problems you've mentioned since they sound ATI driver releated.
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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    hahaha. Read the response:
    Extremely unprofessional and uncalled for. At a time when ATI has far better products in all categories, is mopping the floor with nVidia in sales in EVERY area and is releasing MUCH more trouble free drivers than nVidia you'd best be be kissing ass big time to make up for your severe hardware shortcomings. nVidia has in one in a half years gone from a respected and well earning company to the joke of the entire computing industry what with cheats and lies etc. Oh yes and the horribly buggy drivers you've released on a half ass schedule in the last two years, the majority rife with cheats, problems and the inability to get WHQLed. Gee you'd think you were with a company that was still a dominant player. Those days are long gone.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    LMAO ...and how many forceware drivers have come out since cat 4.2's? Everytime I turn around nvidia is releasing a new driver ...oh wait look there's another one!!! LOL
    Nvidia shouldn't throw stones and should take care of their customers before more leave for ATi IMO.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    The ATI rise to dominance has been one of the thrills for hardware junkies in the past five years. Let's just hope ATI does not pull an Intel - swollen heads, misleading marketing, et cetera.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    Leo, I don't think we're in danger of seeing that from ATi (at least not yet)... nVidia seems to have "being the Intel of the graphics world" pretty well covered at this point... :rolleyes:
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited March 2004
    Whenever I talk to anti-ATI gamers they always complain about bad drivers from ATI and that Nvidia is superior in speed and stability. I have yet to have problems with ATI's drivers since they released 3.4 (or maybe it was 3.2?). *shrug*

    Oh yeah and what IS the deal with the forceware-a-week thing?
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited March 2004
    Maybe that's the problem. Not enough updates. Yea right. If it works why change it.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited March 2004
    ROFLMAO nothing beats a good squabble. :Pwned: ;D
    It is quite similar to AMD vs. Intel.

    I'd say round one goes to AIT for the cool reply. :aol:
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