Corozan Aspinall
Party Time Inc.
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Posted - 2010.09.29 10:37:00 -
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Originally by: Grimpak Edited by: Grimpak on 29/09/2010 10:11:50
Originally by: Random Hell***** Today I have Radeon 5850 Crossfire that came with the PC which was a PC offer we got through work. I've only ever used Nvidia cards in the past, but that wasn't an option with this offer.
Anyways, I've had soooo many problems in regards to ATI's Catalyst drivers, with every single driver update from 10.6 up to the laste 10.9 driver. Put simply, I'm fed up with CTD, black screen during gameplay, assorted gfx glitches and a plethora of work-arounds to get various games to work right (that is, without glitches). Performance-wise it's been OK, but the glitches are doing my head in.
So I'm going to go back to Nvidia cards. What I'm looking at is the GTX 480 SLI, but since I've been stuck with this ATI card for awhile now I'd like some feedback on the GTX card if anyone has those. Any driver issues with them? Performance good in different games? Not talking just EVE (which I love to run on max whenever possible), but also FPS games like Bad Company 2 or Medal of Honor (have the latest MoH on preorder).
Any pro/cons on the GTX 480 SLI would be appreciated, optionally any feedback on other Nvidia cards. And no, I don't care how good ATI may or may not be performance, noise, heat or power consumption wise compared to Nvidia. After having issues with nearly every game due to drivers I am not getting another ATI in my house, ever.
just a smaaaal question. Do you have V-sync enabled? cuz that sounds like your card was overheating. many (if not all) games have this habit of, when you have V-sync disabled, to pump out so many frames from the cards that they start to burn quite nicely.
oh and dual-card setups don't work with eve. And with many other games, as a matter of fact. real-world performance only goes up a bit. only good thing I can see SLI for is to offload the PhysX stuff to one of the cards, while the other only does graphics stuff. if you can get dual-gpu cards however, that would be better.
oh and ATI driver problems are kinda weird tbh. I myself had similar problems with BOTH brands. and I'm pretty sure that there are people that have switched from NV to ATI because of the very same problems you're having, xcept they were using an NV card instead ATI.
Agreed. Only scenario I can imagine where you'd want vsync disabled is if you card can't handle the game anyway.
I have vsync on all the time in EVE and use interval one; my cards fans never even come on. Everything on max, lod off etc.
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