ErosOlmi
08-02-2007, 01:29
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070206-8784.html
http://www.nvidiaclassaction.org/
I'm a big nvidia fan. The ATI on my notebook is nice and has been the least troublesome ATI product I have owned. My passed experience with ATi sounds more like user's problems they are having now with nvidia. I hope it will be resolved soon. As far as I am concerned, nvidia rocks hard and has always been a joy to own.
Petr Schreiber
08-02-2007, 09:18
Hi,
this is the reason to not buy Vista ... for the present. It will take some time ( year+ ? ) to have all drivers running at nice performance.
From what I have read yet, the problems are quite scary. It reminds me of situation, when I bought my first (ATi ) Radeon - 7000 series. It was not so brutal to do bluescreening, but in some advanced games it even did not textured properly. With new drivers it was all ok.
NVIDIA will correct it too :). I think in current situation lot of features run in software, rather than GPU. At least that would explain jump of frame rate down when enabling some special features.
It is quite important to see most problems occur on latest beta drivers. I would never install such a thing on working PC.
It is quite funny ( well, not for designers of Vistas ) to watch scary game performance on OS proclaimed to be best for gaming... but they was probably meaning it for DX10 games. I am quite curious how they will run on Vistas. Do you know about any DirectX10 game released yet ?
I have seen some test of ATi cards on Vista, where the native default Radeon drivers were faster than those released by ATi later. This is weird.
We will see...
Bye,
Petr