Building Own PC

[Dani]

When the programmers are putting out a patch JUST to fix ATI cards, there's something wrong.

What you noticed on the gaming forums regarding juggling of Detonator drivers was when the Detonator 40 Beta drivers came out.  All I know is I have never had a problem with an nVIDIA card (been using them for 5+ years),

Hmm, different experiences.

First of all, pretty much any game that has troubleshooting included in it's readme has known problems for Radeon 7xxx cards, but these do not apply to 8500 and above (new chip and all). Furthermore, those same readmes usually have known issues for certain detonators and/or certain manufacturer GF cards.

As for detonator juggling, the impression comes from whenever a GF user is asking for support on various gaming forums and usenet newsgroups, the first advice from various people is to get either new dets, or old, and the version numbers tend to vary a lot...from 30.xx to 4x.xx

ATI drivers may be getting better. I can't speak really.

Since early summer last year, I haven't heard of any significant problems with the Catalyst drivers. Haven't had a single hitch myself either.

and I've always had problems with ATI cards (used for 6+ months). And, every game I've seen to date that had problems with a specific card was always either 3dfx (back in the old days), or ATI. Still true to this day.

Hmm, interesting. You know, I used to have a Voodoo 3, and now have a Radeon 8500, and well I've considered myself lucky because most games that came out when Voodoo3 was still a relevant card, seem to have been optimized for it, ofcource the last couple years the card hasn't been relevant so there were issues. As for the Radeon, had it for a year, updated drivers from time to time, but not watching when new ones come out...and haven't had a single problem that would've been caused by the card or it's drivers.

That said, I've hardly had any problems at all caused by my rig, since it was built (by myself) from reliable parts to be "hitch-free".

afterthought: AFAIK Diamond Monster etc. voodoo cards had several issues that other Voodoo cards did not have...so the problem with Voodoo then, and GeForce now, might well be the builds different manufactuers used.