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.
Please excuse my bad English.
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I am not having a mental breakdown BTW. I'm just playing around, no need to call the funny police, oh god I can't go back to that padded room.
By Craig Pearson on October 4th, 2013 at 10:00 am.
I quite liked the previous Elite: Dangerous trailer, but even with my rose-tinted cockpit view activated it was obvious that there wasn’t a hope on IO that the game would look like that. It was one of those in-engine trailers that makes everything look whizzy and zoomy, but everything is following a pre-determined path. Frontier is admitting as much in the latest developer diary, which has David Braben gabbing over the trailer, talking about what’s real and in-game, what they fudged, and how useful the trailer has been in visualising the full game. So if you want to watch it a second time, but with Uncy Dave talking over it like a game development Jackanory, then it is below.
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Wasteland 2 developer inXile Entertainment has posted two new screens from its post-apocalyptic RPG, along with some insight into what, exactly, they show.
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| 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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I agree, graphic drivers must be a pain to work with. And now AMD goes and adds another kind of drivers with Mantle. I'm sure the guys that make the drivers are very happy about it, and would like exchange a few words with their bosses.
| zarx said: I am not having a mental breakdown BTW. I'm just playing around, no need to call the funny police, oh god I can't go back to that padded room. |
Aww. Someone needs a hug?
Please excuse my bad English.
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| JEMC said:
Aww. Someone needs a hug? |
I am perfectly sane and/or happy
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| JEMC said: I agree, graphic drivers must be a pain to work with. And now AMD goes and adds another kind of drivers with Mantle. I'm sure the guys that make the drivers are very happy about it, and would like exchange a few words with their bosses. |
Mantle isn't a driver. It's an API that interfaces with AMD's drivers/hardware.
To put the complexity of AMD's and nVidia's drivers into context though... Their drivers actually have more lines of code than the Windows Kernel, so it's impossible to always have a 100% trouble free experience regardless of what brand you go with.
Luckily some of the issues aren't noticed by the average person.
Most of the issues are going to be noticed most by those who have complex set-ups, I'm talking multi-GPU and Eyefinity/Surround Vision set-ups.
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But there is a driver involved of some kind involved, at least that's what could be seen on one of the images:
Mind you, it should be "small", but in the future when AMD launches new architectures, it should grow a lot to be compatible with the new cards.
| Pemalite said: To put the complexity of AMD's and nVidia's drivers into context though... Their drivers actually have more lines of code than the Windows Kernel, so it's impossible to always have a 100% trouble free experience regardless of what brand you go with. |
Yep, I've heard that comparison before.
@zarx: Hmm, I don't quite believe it. You won't get rid of a needed hug
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Those beta steam boxes are packing quite a bit of power. The weakest one has 660 which is not bad at all and the most powerful has a titan...
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The first images of Homefront 2 from developer Crytek have appeared via a promotional handout, and we’ve got off-screen images of the title for you below.
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