I think I an done with AMD

For what it's worth, my GTX 1070 has given me far more driver issues than my old-ass laptop with an HD 5850M has.


Think you're in for a rude shock.
 
metroidfox said:
For what it's worth, my GTX 1070 has given me far more driver issues than my old-ass laptop with an HD 5850M has.


Think you're in for a rude shock.
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GTX 1070 is what I had since it released in 2016, until recently. Zero problems with driver issues the entire time.
 
Munkus said:
I moved away from AMD gpus years ago because of driver issues. I've rarely had issues with nvidia drivers. They just work for me. Not nearly as much bloat as AMD drivers either (back in the early Catalyst days).
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This. And unlike Bill my 2080Ti has had no driver issues.
 
acroig said:
This. And unlike Bill my 2080Ti has had no driver issues.
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New G-SYNC Compatible Monitors

The list of G-SYNC Compatible displays increases to over 60 options with the addition of the MSI MAG251RX and ViewSonic XG270 monitors.

Fixed Issues
•[Resolve]: The application may crash during timeline playback when using Blackmagic RAW CODEC media.
•[Forza Motorsport 7]: Game starts to stutter after racing a few laps
•[Fallout 76][G-SYNC]: The game frame rate drops with G-SYNC enabled.
•[GeForce GTX 1080 Ti]: There is no 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound option in the Windows Sound Properties.
•[GeForce GTX 1060 6GB][NVIDIA Control Panel]:The NVIDIA Control Panel reports an incorrect GPU framebuffer size.

Known Issues

Windows 7 Issues
•[World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth][DirectX 12]: The game crashes when switched from DirectX 11 to DirectX 12 mode.
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odd I see a lot of Fixed Issues with every new driver if there are none :p

and there is the ever present NV bug 30 fps locked with vsync on in some games, some new and lot of older games sometimes it is fixed sometimes it never is
nice NV ether run a 1350 buck gpu at 30 fps or have tearing :bleh:

I never had that with AMD or ATI :hmm:

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and you can thank AMD for a lot of those "G-SYNC Compatible displays " that are just freesync

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and they just gave NV another reason to rise prices

NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Cards Could Get More Expensive in 2020 Due To Rising DRAM Demand
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https://wccftech.com/nvidia-amd-graphics-cards-price-rising-graphics-dram-gddr6-supply/
 
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My main monitor in a G-sync one so no issues there. I am glad they are supporting freesync. No game I've played this year has had driver issues.
 
acroig said:
My main monitor in a G-sync one so no issues there. I am glad they are supporting freesync. No game I've played this year has had driver issues.
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I'm still a bit pissed off about the whole freesync thing--the fact it took them so long to come around to supporting it. They finally started supporting Freesync after I switched to a Vega 64 from a 1080. It only cost me about $100 to switch, but it was still just a little bit infuriating.

Still glad they came to their senses, even though I now have a G-sync display.
 
Nagorak said:
I'm still a bit pissed off about the whole freesync thing--the fact it took them so long to come around to supporting it. They finally started supporting Freesync after I switched to a Vega 64 from a 1080. It only cost me about $100 to switch, but it was still just a little bit infuriating.

Still glad they came to their senses, even though I now have a G-sync display.
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waiting on the 2020 stuff to come out with full HDMI 2.1

I want a 55 inch 4k/120 and VRR, Freesync & G-sync
 
Used AMD cards for many years, can't remember any driver related issues in games. But I only buy games during sales so they've typically been out for at least a year and all the bugs have been fixed.

Back in the Radeon 8500 days I loathed AMD driver updates because there was at least a 50% chance the update would result in a horribly choppy Windows desktop and/or shuffle all of my desktop icons. The Catalyst drivers were also a hot mess for a while with broken .NET framework dependencies and such. If you look at the driver files there are still tons of files named ATI this and that... AMD needs to do a ground-up rewrite.
 
It's not issue free. But it's bunk to say drivers issues are unique to AMD and nVidia has none.
 
Trunks0 said:
It's not issue free. But it's bunk to say drivers issues are unique to AMD and nVidia has none.
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this


I can get as many driver stops or CTD's with NV as with AMD on brand new games

sometimes it take NV two or three drivers after the so their called game ready driver to get them to stop
 
bill dennison said:
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I can get as many driver stops or CTD's with NV as with AMD on brand new games

sometimes it take NV two or three drivers after the so their called game ready driver to get them to stop
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Damn you still get TDR?

Why not change the registry entry for tdrdelay to 10 and not deal with that ever again.

Worked on nvidia when i had it and works on my amd cards that i have now. I havent had a tdr in forever.
 
I remember long ago during the early radeon years (when they were still ATI) the driver issues situation was real.

But nowadays I don't think the drivers are any better/worse than nvidia
Your mileage will vary
 
Trunks0 said:
It's not issue free. But it's bunk to say drivers issues are unique to AMD and nVidia has none.
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Well it is for me. For as far back as I can remember, I only ever had horrible experience with AMD cards, and never ever had any issues with Nvidia.

Anyways, I found a work around for some of my issues.

I use DXVK instead
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

which translates DirectX into Vulkan

Technically DXVK is supposed to be for Linux/WINE, and not for Windows, but it still works for Windows, and it is making the games that I couldn't get to work under normal conditions to work now.
 
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Eisberg said:
Well it is for me. For as far back as I can remember, I only ever had horrible experience with AMD cards, and never ever had any issues with Nvidia.

Anyways, I found a work around for some of my issues.

I use DXVK instead
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

which translates DirectX into Vulkan

Technically DXVK is supposed to be for Linux/WINE, and not for Windows, but it still works for Windows, and it is making the games that I couldn't get to work under normal conditions to work now.
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did you use a fresh clean install for the AMD cards after having NV cards in the systems

it would not surprise me if NV drivers leave crap behind it torpedo AMD cards
 
Eisberg said:
I did. I even used DDU.
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I never had any luck with DDU

things not working right first thing I do is start with a clean install on a new drive with just drivers and the offending game installed
saving the old incase it does not work

then if it is just that one game is messed up it is the game
 
and found another game that will not work this this video card, even though it worked with my GTX 1070.

Tetris Effect

:rolleyes:
 
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