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Bofferbrauer2 on 02 April 2020
Captain_Yuri said:
JEMC said:

Driver issues are a recurring problem for both AMD and Nvidia. They have them, fix them and then they come back some time later. It's a never ending story.

Well AMD still seems to have some of the worst drivers compared to Nvidia.

As an example with their last "flagship" which was the Vega VII, it had quite a lot of driver problems:

(Skip to 10 minutes where he starts talking about Vega VII)

5000 series drivers isn't exactly much cleaner either...

You can't generalize like that.

I never had any problems with either Evergreen or early GCN GPU drivers - but thrice with NVidia (Riva TNT2, GeForce FX 5500 and GTX 460).

NVidia drivers do seem superior in the newest games right now, but for retrogaming they are atrocious. Old 4:3 ratio games look like a hackjob on my 1050Ti but got streched tp the entire screen without deformations on AMD GPUs, for instance. They also crashed more rarely in older games.



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kirby007 on 02 April 2020

needing an account to get the drivers ticks me off honestly



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 02 April 2020
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Captain_Yuri said:

Well AMD still seems to have some of the worst drivers compared to Nvidia.

As an example with their last "flagship" which was the Vega VII, it had quite a lot of driver problems:

(Skip to 10 minutes where he starts talking about Vega VII)

5000 series drivers isn't exactly much cleaner either...

You can't generalize like that.

I never had any problems with either Evergreen or early GCN GPU drivers - but thrice with NVidia (Riva TNT2, GeForce FX 5500 and GTX 460).

NVidia drivers do seem superior in the newest games right now, but for retrogaming they are atrocious. Old 4:3 ratio games look like a hackjob on my 1050Ti but got streched tp the entire screen without deformations on AMD GPUs, for instance. They also crashed more rarely in older games.

Well when you look at his reviews of the 5000 series as well, they also have had bad drivers with functions not working properly or reporting incorrect readouts from the GPU. We will see with their next gen ones but the last thing I want when I spend $500-$700 on a new high end GPU is driver issues. Granted both companies have had their instances of bad drivers but from what I can tell when looking at his (and others) Nvidia GPU reviews as well, the drivers aren't as much of an issue.

I can't really comment on retro gaming since I don't play much of that but I do buy plenty of new games so having drivers working on day 1 instead of later... That's important for me as well.



                  

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 02 April 2020

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JEMC on 03 April 2020
kirby007 said:
needing an account to get the drivers ticks me off honestly

Which one needs an account?



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vivster on 03 April 2020
kirby007 said:
needing an account to get the drivers ticks me off honestly

JEMC said:
kirby007 said:
needing an account to get the drivers ticks me off honestly

Which one needs an account?

I'm assuming he means Nvidia with Nvidia Experience, which requires an account. He probably doesn't know that you can still manually download any driver without an account.



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HoloDust on 03 April 2020

I switched back to nVidia couple years ago after being with Radeon for some 15 years due to not wanting to deal anymore with AMD being slow on releasing new drivers for latest games.



JEMC on 03 April 2020
vivster said:
kirby007 said:
needing an account to get the drivers ticks me off honestly

JEMC said:

Which one needs an account?

I'm assuming he means Nvidia with Nvidia Experience, which requires an account. He probably doesn't know that you can still manually download any driver without an account.

That was my guess, but I still wanted to be sure.

I've been upgrading my drivers without an Nvidia Experience account.



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vivster on 03 April 2020
JEMC said:
vivster said:

I'm assuming he means Nvidia with Nvidia Experience, which requires an account. He probably doesn't know that you can still manually download any driver without an account.

That was my guess, but I still wanted to be sure.

I've been upgrading my drivers without an Nvidia Experience account.

I've been using Nvidia for years now and I always have Nvidia Experience installed, but I don't even know if I have an account.



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kirby007 on 03 April 2020

Correct, then again its worth it over having to manually look it up on the website from the manufacturer
Like when i ran a 4800



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