| JEMC said: AMD gets a lot of bashing for their drivers, but I see a lot of more complains about Nvidia drivers rather than AMD's. And the complains about AMD are mostly from those with 2 or more cards. |
Well considering that Nvidia have ~60% of the descrete GPU market I would expect to hear more about them lol. When Nvidia drivers have problems they are usually pretty big issues. Things like bricking whole series of GPUs, ruining Vista launches with poor performing unstable drivers, crashing after a few minutes whenever you have a web browser open on many GPUs things like that. AMD more often have issues with new games being broken and things, tho I think that is mostly because of Nvidia's TWIMTBP program and their shady deals involving not giving builds to AMD until the last minute, or creating features that only work on Nvidia cards etc. Tho sometimes AMD just release the wrong drivers causing RAGE to be unplayable for everyone with an AMD card on the driver that is reccomended for the game at launch etc.
Basically graphics drivers are insanely complex systems that have to interface with hudreds of different peices of hardware, thousands of games, half a dozzen OSs etc. All of which are constantly changing so there are bound to be issues.
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