03-18-2003, 02:45 AM
I have never once had to juggle drivers. The same can not be said for ATI drivers, and what's more, I STILL hear complaints from game programmers about ATI cards / drivers. 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. They were, to put it mildly, awful. The next STABLE release solved ALOT of the issues (mayhap all of them), and improved performance, to boot. THAT was the problem: for the first time, their Beta drivers were just really #$%&ty. Sometimes, like with all Betas, they're not top-notch, but get ironed out b ythe next stable release. This batch was just horrid, and nVIDIA was aware of it as soon as they were released. And, they worked to VERY quickly get out the next stable batch. I don't think it took them more than a week or two to fix everything.
ATI drivers may be getting better. I can't speak really. All I know is I have never had a problem with an nVIDIA card (been using them for 5+ years), and I've always had problems with ATI cards (used for 6+ months). And, every game I've seen to date that had problems with a specific card was always either 3dfx (back in the old days), or ATI. Still true to this day.
What you noticed on the gaming forums regarding juggling of Detonator drivers was when the Detonator 40 Beta drivers came out. They were, to put it mildly, awful. The next STABLE release solved ALOT of the issues (mayhap all of them), and improved performance, to boot. THAT was the problem: for the first time, their Beta drivers were just really #$%&ty. Sometimes, like with all Betas, they're not top-notch, but get ironed out b ythe next stable release. This batch was just horrid, and nVIDIA was aware of it as soon as they were released. And, they worked to VERY quickly get out the next stable batch. I don't think it took them more than a week or two to fix everything.
ATI drivers may be getting better. I can't speak really. All I know is I have never had a problem with an nVIDIA card (been using them for 5+ years), 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.
Roland *The Gunslinger*