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Doomtrooper
06-Jan-2003, 17:15
This is hilarious ...I mean I've never seen a company as blunt as this about another company.
I've never had a major issues with ATI drivers but I'm posting this to see Opengl guys reaction..something fishy about that page
:wink:
3D Nature recommends against all ATI Graphics cards. They currently (December 2002) have unreliable drivers for advanced 3D Graphics use and have shown no intention of solving the issues even though it has been brought to their attention by many organizations.

http://www.3dnature.com/specs.html
Tagrineth
06-Jan-2003, 17:56
Oh, it's worse than that.

How about:

Recommended System Specs: 1 GHz clock speed or better, Pentium II or later, 256 Mb Ram or more, 1Gb of disk space or more, OpenGL compliant Video Card, Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP.


1GHz clock or better? Pentium II or later? Are they trying to suggest a P2 could even HOPE to achieve NEAR 1GHz (even with LN2 cooling!)?! :lol:
Ante P
06-Jan-2003, 19:02
[quote]3D Nature recommends against all ATI Graphics cards. They currently (December 2002) have unreliable drivers for advanced 3D Graphics use and have shown no intention of solving the issues even though it has been brought to their attention by many organizations.

http://www.3dnature.com/specs.html

It's changed
it now says:

"3D Nature has been contacted (Jan 2003) by ATI regarding problems our customers have experienced with their Graphics cards. We are working with them to identify and resolve these problems."

guess they never even bothered to file a bug report at Ati and just decided to slam them...
for all we know it might just be their programming skills that sucked and caused the trouble in the first place.. :roll:
Doomtrooper
06-Jan-2003, 19:31
:D
raven
07-Jan-2003, 22:17
Yeah boyyyyyy this is the first time ive everowned a ATI card and guess what I LOVE IT no issues at all
FiggyG
10-Jan-2003, 22:16
Yeah boyyyyyy this is the first time ive everowned a ATI card and guess what I LOVE IT no issues at all

Guess what? Same here. I've been from nVidia to 3dfx, and I'm very impressed by ATi :D
Brutal Deluxe
12-Jan-2003, 17:17
Seriously... WTF am I gonna do when I can not run 3dnature on my computer??? I might have to kill myself. :wink:
GraphixViolence
13-Jan-2003, 14:40
Check out what that site says now:

3D Nature has been contacted (Jan 2003) by ATI regarding problems our customers have experienced with their Graphics cards. We are working with them to identify and resolve these problems.

Call me crazy, but if you're a developer, and your app runs into a problem with a particular graphics card - shouldn't YOU be contacting the card manufacturer to get it fixed?? :roll:
Rodéric
13-Jan-2003, 15:45
I have at least one small problem with each and every ATI driver I've had to date.

(Since I've a RadeOn DDR)

At the moment it's a problem with NWN shiny water, which is now broken and worked in previous driver release.
Since both Bioware and ATI worked on the issue of adding it for RadeOn, I'm very surprised that they didn't made it right the first time...
Bigus Dickus
13-Jan-2003, 16:15
Out of curiosity, why do you capitalize the "O" in Radeon?
Ante P
13-Jan-2003, 16:18
Out of curiosity, why do you capitalize the "O" in Radeon?

hehe lots of people did that when the original Radeon was launched. Perhaps he just continued doing it ever since. :)
Randell
13-Jan-2003, 19:45
I have at least one small problem with each and every ATI driver I've had to date.

(Since I've a RadeOn DDR)

At the moment it's a problem with NWN shiny water, which is now broken and worked in previous driver release.
Since both Bioware and ATI worked on the issue of adding it for RadeOn, I'm very surprised that they didn't made it right the first time...

well your the last NWN owner with that problem - it works now and has done for a while.