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Mountainjew

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2008-08-24

Posts: 405

Are ATI drivers 'that' bad?

So i haven't upgraded my computer in a while and i'm stuck with an 8800GTS. But i'm gonna get an upgrade next week, and since i'm getting an AMD 1090T, i realize there aren't any good nForce mobo's these days. So i'm considering getting the Crosshair IV Formula, but if i wanna upgrade my gfx card it'd make more sense to get an ATI, for the crosshair (futureproofing). Since i wouldn't be able to run SLI, it'd be pretty stupid to stick with Nvidia.

I don't remember ATI drivers being awful when i had an x800xt, 4 years ago. They actually ran better in wine than the Nvidia card i upgraded to. So is the whole ATI drivers being bad thing blown out of proportion? And what's the ATI equivalent to twinview?

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Are ATI drivers 'that' bad?

They are bad. Not "that" bad like they were last year, but still bad.

The opensource one has great potential, but it just started having basic 2D and KMS for the HD5xxx cards.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Are ATI drivers 'that' bad?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57084

Mountainjew

Member

From: Ireland

Registered: 2008-08-24

Posts: 405

Re: Are ATI drivers 'that' bad?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57084

Hah, trust me to completely miss a 92 page thread

Last edited by Mountainjew (2010-08-29 13:49:40)

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litemotiv

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: Are ATI drivers 'that' bad?

Here are two more topics:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102725
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79509

There is enough information about the current state of ATI available on the forums, closing this one.

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