Monthly Steam hardware survey analysis

[Chrkeller]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Chrkeller said:

I've always heard of issues with firmware and drivers for AMD.  Is that more of a myth than a reality?  I went intel and nvidia only because I was under the impression things are easier from a compatibility perspective, but I'm also super new to PC gaming.

I didn't have any more issues with my RX 7600S than I had before with my GTX 1050Ti; in fact I feel like there are less issues, but I can't say if it's true or just a feeling.

So I'd say it's just a myth anymore. AMD cards did have such issues during the GCN2-GCN3 period which made them get that reputation, but even though it's long resolved, they still can't live that down.

What is acting up is Windows, but not due to the AMD hardware. I live in Luxembourg but bought my laptop in Belgium because I wanted an AZERTY keyboard layout. Lately Windows doesn't understand this and constantly tries to override they keyboard layout from Belgian French to Swiss Luxembourgish, which is a QWERTZ layout and has drastically different positions for special signs, accents and umlauts (Luxembourgish uses both the German Umlaut as well as French accents). Always nice when you find out in the midst of typing your resume that Windows changed the settings, and you have to redo it again...

I'm not surprised it is a myth.  I did have some driver issues with my nvidia.

Windows was the biggest pita for me.  It wanted to connect online to install and I wasn't near my router, had to redo the whole thing.