Lentheb
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Posted - 2011.07.01 19:32:00 -
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Edited by: Lentheb on 01/07/2011 19:35:55
 Originally by: Soldarius
Originally by: Floydd Heywood
I'm wondering how many of the people with technical problems (but newer computers) use an ATI graphics card. I had one myself until last year and I had the feeling that CCP only develops and tests on nvidia cards. There were regular issues with EVE that only affected ATI users.
Like many other developers, btw. If anything in ANY game has problems with specific cards, it's ALWAYS with ATI cards. I'm pretty sure it's not ATI's fault but poor QA on the developers' side, but unfair as it may be, it made me switch to the industry leader nvidia. Ever since I've had zero compatibility problems with anything.
In a word, no.
I have an ATI Radeon HD4890 plugged into an ASUS M4A89GTD Pro USB3 Mobo, AMD Phenom II x4 965 CPU, and 4Gb of DDR3 RAM. I use Catalyst Control Center version 10.11 because every version of it from this one on has screwed things up in one way or another. I also rolled back my most recent PCIe bus drivers because they literally screwed my network card. I have no problems.
I have noticed an increase in system resources usage, which is easily explained by the more resource intensive CQ. Space ships online works as normal.
troll
As for all of you with skill issues... working as intended. MT will replace skillz.
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There isn't a problem with ATI cards persay. The problem exists in the southbridge, as this poster stated by rolling back his PCIe drivers. A bit of History:
1. NVIDIA and ATI both develop excellent cards.
2. NVIDIA and ATI realize that devices are becoming more integrated, i.e. NForce Chipsets.
3. NVIDIA Partners with AMD and Intel MB Manufacturers and offers the tools necessary to start integrating the NForce Chipsets into AMD snd Intel style motherboards starting with NForce 1(We are now at NForce 7), but doesnt offer the tools directly to Intel or AMD. It instead licenses them.
4. ATI diverges in that they don't have a southbridge chipset specifically tailored to run their cards, i.e there is no NForce chipset for ATI. Instead they focus on continuing to develop better cards, which they do for years.
5. AMD realizes they have faster and faster chips, but no solid integration system for graphics or sound, and in an effort to compete with Intel THEY BOUGHT OUT ATI. They tried to buy NVIDIA but NVIDIA refused.
IMHO, ATI still has no reliable southbridge driver, and it isn't like they can ask for specs from Intel since they are owned by Intel's competitor. Whilst they do have a southbridge driver it is included in the Catalyst software. As such it is Generic, in that it must be written to support every card and every motherboard, where as NVIDIA can tell you you have an NForce 6 style board so there is no need to tell someone to download a new southbridge driver that is greater than 6, while being able to update the graphics driver without affecting the southbridge.
In short, if you use NVIDIA GPU's buy a motherbord with an NForce Chipset. If you use ATI, follow the OP's advice and downgrade your Catalyst Control Software until you find a stable version of a southbridge driver that supports yor system, because the southbridge driver is more important than the Graphics driver.
Sorry if this post seems slanted torwards NVIDIA users, but I am one. I've tried both brands and after trying to replace a 4x AGP NVIDIA card in an older PC with an 8x/4x ATI Radeon 3650, and finding out it would only operate at 4x in safe mode, I'll never go back to ATI, since I bought an 8x/4x NVIDIA card and it actually operated at 4x. This just proves ATI cannot follow rules that AGP is always backwards compatible.
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