It took you a coupple weeks of DIGGING to find some issues that simply DO NOT EFFECT EVERYONE. [/b]
RUBBISH.
In fact, I just searched and read ALL my posts here and on my site about these ATI driver issues and found NO SUCH CLAIM.
The issues that I discovered were almost immediate and sudden under circumstances that I didn't originally check for. This is similar to running through a field of grass devoid of lions; then emerging on the other side to find a pack of them.
The documented problems in my games are still there. The documented problems in other games - are for the most part - still there. e.g. They ripped out W buffer support, fucked up the Z buffer royally. And even with these 777 drivers, Morrowind, my game and several others, STILL have Z buffer artifacts.
The Guy tested multiple games and had no serious issues. Thus becuase you find 3 issues that you frikking repeat over and over and over in every thread... the drivers are Crap???
You must be reading a different review. How many people are still playing sims? How many people bought/playing Morrowind, BF1942, Mafia, The Thing, GTA3 (you want a list?) etc etc Did you see ANY indication in his review that he even played ANY of these games?
The sales of mainstream games eclipse the sales of niche games such as sims (including mine), so of course a legacy game like F4, CFS2 etc won't exhibit problems that others will. But the fact remains, the casual (e.g. BF1942 et al and RPG market (e.g Morrowind) are vastly larger than the sim market.
If 95% of the people can play 95% of all games without serious issues, most without ANY issues Then What the HELL IS THE PROBLEM.
The problem is quite simply, with your (a) math (b) lack of FACTUAL data - no, pulling numbers (95%) out of your thin air, doesn't count as being factual. What IS factual, is
stuff like this.
Forget the GF3 launch and the driver issues they had. Forget the GF2 launch and the driver issues they had, Forget the Det 40.41 debaucle...
I could care less. The issue is about ATI's piss-poor drivers. We're not discussing nVidia, Matrox or anyone else. Yes, they too have some driver issues - but you CANNOT compare the state of those boards drivers to that of ATI's. Thats just laughable.
I am firmly neutral and don't pick sides. All I know is that nVidia and Matrox boards have tridionally
worked out of the box.
Or the fact that it was over a year before the Shaders were correctly programed for on the GF series. Etc etc etc...
1. It wasn't a year
2. The shaders
did work. So, I dunno what
correctly programmed means. You must be thinking of those
BAD ATI drivers again. Thats an example of something thats not
correctly programmed
3. There were NO games that used shaders at the time
NO DRIVERS ARE PERFECT. PERIOD. PERIOD. PERIOD.
I didn't know that this was a point of contention. But thanks for giving your CAPSLOCK key an excercise workout.
Here is the kicker like you.. I dont give a rip what you reply with... or try to slam me with. You are WAY overstating problems that do not effect most games, and taking the results and calling The whole rubbish.
Whatever. You must be saying that as a pre-emptive strike because you know for a fact that I'm going take your points
apart without even batting an eyelid.
It is totally and completely unballanced and unpofessional and someones IQ is not a licence for outright BIAS.
uhm, right. Not sure what that was, but I'm not going to hurt my head by guessing. After all, us low IQ netizens take a while to process stuff.
