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Originally Posted by Thanakil
Yeah, comparing the CPU side to the GPU side and then saying that nVidia wins because of a delay.
That's obviously making a LOTS of sense.
"See, this orange is beating this apple on a bicycle because the shop opens 1 hour later".
ATI drivers usually take more times to be polished, yes, but the cards aren't worthless, far from it. The first batch of drivers are usually not taking much advantage of the cards, but they usually catch up later on and take advantage of the card just like they should.
Which makes it pretty pointless since yes, they do make good drivers if you just wait (ZOMG!) instead of buying the card right as it's released and then go "WHAT?! IT'S NOT WORKING AT 100% YET? UNPOSSIBLE!".
They may be slower compared to nvidia on the driver side, but you're seriously overreacting if you think they're worthless and don't make any good drivers.
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look at all the problems people with ATI cards have with various emulators and you have your proof that ATI's drivers are worthless.
if they can't preform correctly, then they are worthless.
if a calculater says 2+2=5 then are you going to use it on a math test?
hopefully not.
so why should i buy a graphics card that fails to output graphics correctly?
and when i compared the battle between nVidia and ATI, to Intel and AMD, you failed to notice my intention.
once 1 competing corporation gains dominance in a feild, its very hard for the loosing party to regain its stand.
AMD is pretty much f***ed in the ass right now, and theres not much they can do to regain their possition unless they release a chip thats more powerful than intel's CPUs, and at a cheaper price... which dosn't look likely.
ATI is in the same situation.
with nVidia's 8800 and 9XXX series of cards, they really took the lead against ATI.
and now ATI will have to release a card thats alot more powerful than nVidia's cards to get back their recognition.
if they release a card thats only on-par with nVidia, then people would just get the nVidia card since they were most-likely pleased with their previous 8800/9XXX series card and would expect to be pleased with their next nVidia card.