ATI Q&A

What I wish they asked him and I cannot figure out how they could let a driver interview w/ ATI slip by without asking...........is.............Why CAN'T ATI write a set of drivers that if uninstalled, cleanly removes itslelf from the %system dir and the registry??????? ATI, sure they are a lot more stable lately but heck when I want to install a newer version driver, I may as well reload my OS from scratch...or my pre ATI driver ghost image!! Man, get your game together guys!!

I'm going to make a new post on this since davatar gets under my skin about his b.s. anti-ATi posts. You don't own a Radeon DX9 class card and from my understanding, you have some outdated board of theirs (tv card?) and are trying to speak as if you have direct knowledge of issues w/the current crop of catalysts or video cards. Then you try to use the Rage3D boards as some sort of ancedotal evidence to back up your claims but guess what? The vast majority of owners are usually referred to those boards for minor issues they have with their cards, thus you see many posters there. If the drivers were indeed still in a shoddy state, you wouldn't have hardcore nvidiots from nvnews.net (some of their staff in fact) rushing out to buy 9700 pro's and then singing the praises of ATi's drivers. You wouldn't have people like Brent from HardOCP shooting down inane posts such as yours trying to use the old worn out argument of poor ATi drivers.

There's no denying that some people will have issues with the cards, that's part of the PC experience, nothing is going to work 100% of the time on such a wide variety of systems. However, considering nvidia has had over SIX months to revise the NV30's drivers, they still SUCK! The 42.68's are hacked shit drivers with many glitches and the 43.00's aren't much better either (in fact they're slower).

In summary, give it a rest, thus far nVidia's drivers for their first new core in such a long time aren't exactly stellar--in fact they're not up to par with the initial drivers that were released with the 9700 pro and are far from the quality of current catalysts. Times change, ATi has improved in all areas.

ATi's catalysts are rock solid for me so far. The 9700 pro is the best card I've ever owned.

Radeon 9800 Chimp demo - http://mirror.ati.com/developer/demos/r9800.html

and it works on my Radeon 9700 as well - what a cute chimp :)

Theres some other demo as well which also works on 9700's - http://pdownload.mii.instacontent.net/ati/misc/demos/AshliDemoSetup-1.0.0.msi

Does ATI make drivers for Linux as well? If not, any plans if they are planning to do that?

So basically they release drivers 8 to 10 times a year.

Every interview I read with ATI has covered this topic for like the last 8 months.

I wish it would die.

My current ATI TV card gets updates randomly, but they still haven't figured out how to get rid of a bug the requires you to swap color depths to fix display issues (16 or 32 will work, but sometimes they break and a switch fixes it)

Also, after trying to use different video software, my PC requires a reboot before the ATIMMC will work again. I am hesitant to pick up a new ATI card.