Mordecai Walfish wrote on May 11, 2017, 15:15:

Slashman wrote on May 11, 2017, 14:32:
I still don't want an AMD/ATI card.

Not sure why I'd pay to have to wait for fixes for practically every game ever.

"Man I sure saved a bunch and stuck it to those nVidia-tards!"

"Cool man! Let's go play some <insert new game here>"

"Yeah...I wanna but I gotta wait for a fix first...can we play something old...er?"

Do you really not see the irony of posting this commentary in a topic about a Nvidia driver fix for a brand new game they had some release driver issues with? AMD has a terrible track record with this stuff, but it is mainly in their history as you don't hear much about newer games having issues, and when they do they are resolved pretty quick it seems. NVidia are the ones who have been screwing things up on the software side for a while. Geforce Experience is a fucking mess still, and their drivers are up to almost a half-gig now. Shadowplay/share is still a broken mess. Their installers are starting to unravel because of typos and registry errors with older drivers, to the point that using something like DDU is necessary to even install newer versions of geforce experience and other elements of their "software package".

Both companies are shit in the software/driver category right now. Yeah, they work.. but there is a lot of BS involved with either of them anymore if you look at the whole picture.

i've read more than once over the years - here, for example - from driver programmers that the real need for "fixes" is to smooth over badly written render code from the developers themselves. similar to how old versions of IE just continuously allowed bad HTML to display in their browsers for the sake of compatibility.

Mordecai Walfish wrote on May 11, 2017, 15:15:

Slashman wrote on May 11, 2017, 14:32:
I still don't want an AMD/ATI card.

Not sure why I'd pay to have to wait for fixes for practically every game ever.

"Man I sure saved a bunch and stuck it to those nVidia-tards!"

"Cool man! Let's go play some <insert new game here>"

"Yeah...I wanna but I gotta wait for a fix first...can we play something old...er?"

Do you really not see the irony of posting this commentary in a topic about a Nvidia driver fix for a brand new game they had some release driver issues with? AMD has a terrible track record with this stuff, but it is mainly in their history as you don't hear much about newer games having issues, and when they do they are resolved pretty quick it seems. NVidia are the ones who have been screwing things up on the software side for a while. Geforce Experience is a fucking mess still, and their drivers are up to almost a half-gig now. Shadowplay/share is still a broken mess. Their installers are starting to unravel because of typos and registry errors with older drivers, to the point that using something like DDU is necessary to even install newer versions of geforce experience and other elements of their "software package".

Both companies are shit in the software/driver category right now. Yeah, they work.. but there is a lot of BS involved with either of them anymore if you look at the whole picture.

I think a third option in the market would work wonders to improve competition, quality and price, but no one else seems to want to dip their feet into the high-end graphics market.

I'm playing Prey on drivers a few versions back and evil grinning the whole way!

Still not sure whether to be impressed with the speed of releasing
driver fixes for issues,.. or be upset that there has been so many hotfixes one after another after another in the 1st place ...?

Slashman wrote on May 11, 2017, 14:32:
I still don't want an AMD/ATI card.

Not sure why I'd pay to have to wait for fixes for practically every game ever.

"Man I sure saved a bunch and stuck it to those nVidia-tards!"

"Cool man! Let's go play some <insert new game here>"

"Yeah...I wanna but I gotta wait for a fix first...can we play something old...er?"

Do you really not see the irony of posting this commentary in a topic about a Nvidia driver fix for a brand new game they had some release driver issues with? AMD has a terrible track record with this stuff, but it is mainly in their history as you don't hear much about newer games having issues, and when they do they are resolved pretty quick it seems. NVidia are the ones who have been screwing things up on the software side for a while. Geforce Experience is a fucking mess still, and their drivers are up to almost a half-gig now. Shadowplay/share is still a broken mess. Their installers are starting to unravel because of typos and registry errors with older drivers, to the point that using something like DDU is necessary to even install newer versions of geforce experience and other elements of their "software package".

Both companies are shit in the software/driver category right now. Yeah, they work.. but there is a lot of BS involved with either of them anymore if you look at the whole picture.

Slashman wrote on May 11, 2017, 14:32:
I still don't want an AMD/ATI card.

Not sure why I'd pay to have to wait for fixes for practically every game ever.

"Man I sure saved a bunch and stuck it to those nVidia-tards!"

"Cool man! Let's go play some <insert new game here>"

"Yeah...I wanna but I gotta wait for a fix first...can we play something old...er?"

"Is this the driver version that lets me play game XYZ on high quality on my RX480?"

I still don't want an AMD/ATI card.

Not sure why I'd pay to have to wait for fixes for practically every game ever.

"Man I sure saved a bunch and stuck it to those nVidia-tards!"

"Cool man! Let's go play some <insert new game here>"

"Yeah...I wanna but I gotta wait for a fix first...can we play something old...er?"

GinRummy wrote on May 11, 2017, 13:56:

El Pit wrote on May 11, 2017, 13:24:
LOL! I still remember ATI... Man, they really had some driver issues.

You do know that AMD is ATI right? The just changed the name when they got bought.

Really? I thought AMD bought it years ago and almost all ATI people are gone by now.

El Pit wrote on May 11, 2017, 13:24:
LOL! I still remember ATI... Man, they really had some driver issues.

You do know that AMD is ATI right? The just changed the name when they got bought.

Timmeh wrote on May 11, 2017, 11:58:
What? Nvidia needs a hotfix???

But but.. its only ATI drivers that the sux....

LOL! I still remember ATI... Man, they really had some driver issues.

Then, there is AMD nowadays, Timmeh. You know, AMD with the RX480. I guess Prey runs on medium settings with an RX480? AMD really, really is putting the heat on nvidia with its totally competitive hardware...

Timmeh wrote on May 11, 2017, 11:58:
What? Nvidia needs a hotfix???

But but.. its only ATI drivers that the sux....

The "certain configurations" means "G-sync monitors", so Nvidia has a bit of a priority to NOT make that investment look bad. I have one, and had this issue, and the fix was to roll back the driver one version.

What? Nvidia needs a hotfix???

But but.. its only ATI drivers that the sux....