ATI Driver Complaints...

[Bob43]

The Radeon 8500 has been recommended as the best value card for the money on several of the hardware sites. I was thinking of picking one up, but I've really noticed here a lot of complaints about the Radeon drivers and their unreliability. Is ATI pretty good about updating their drivers when they are unable to adequately play the latest 3D games, and are they pretty easy to install like the NVIDIA ones??

Thanks for the info.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Yes, they install the same. I have run the G3 and the R8500 in this system. The R8500 BBA I got for $70.00 so it is the most bang for the buck by far. I have not one game that doesnt work. I have Lord of the Rings, WarCraft III, No one Lives Forever 2 and lots of others that qaulify as "new games". All run great. Alot of what you hear is just people being biased.:t

[MoxManiac]

I love my 8500, and i've yet to have a problem, other than Morrowind when it first came out.

[acid_burn~187]

The only problem that I know of with ATI drivers is that they are somewhat slow underr windows XP, when comparing the same card running under windows 98. then again what isn't slower under XP?

~Paul

[AllGamer]

Originally posted by acid_burn~187
then again what isn't slower under XP?

LOL :r

almost absolutely Everything is slower in XP

winXP is just an resource Hog

the same stuff in Win2k or Win98 Flyes

at twice or 1.5 times the speed on XP

so what does that tells ya?

hehehehe

after like super digging waaaaay deep say about 20+ layers deep in WinXP and have dissable all the building CRAPS!!!

the WinXP will just at the same speed of Win2k

so yet another example of the **** load of stuff MS pumps into it to crash your system more, and make your system feel slow, so you have to go out and ugprade yet again :rolleyes:


as per ATI 8500 , Excellent Card at all rates

me using the AIW 8500, simply awesome at everything

no complains

no problems with game, not even with Morrowind or Empire Earth (i noticed some people having problem with these 2 games)

and it's perfect for Digital recordings and TV and all around import / export of multimedia stuff

:t

[Someone Stupid]

ATI's have problems for users who don't know computers, who don't understand drivers, etc. If you understand the concept of drivers, the 8500 is the best bang for your buck at the moment. You have to keep up with ATI driver wise, unlike nVIDIA, but if you know what your doing ti shouldn't cause problems. I here lots of ATI problems, many times it's from lack proper drivers, which nVIDIA doesn't have that problem, hence you don't here many complaints. The only nVIDIA card maker I would steer people away from is Gainward, they seem to be the only maker which makes ****e cards that don't run games well (there Golden Sample line is always causing problems for some reason - seems they are picking the wrong chips :) ).