State of NVIDIA drivers?
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Posted on: 2011-09-16 09:16 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Personally, i havent had any issues with nVidia for a while (through GTX 460/GTX 560/GTS 250)
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Originally Posted by Emberly
I am thinking of getting my partner a new graphics card, specifically the 560Ti. We've been ATI kinda folks for awhile now, but the drivers as of late have been irritating us. Specifically, anything newer than 11.4 has caused CoX to crash out with regularity. How are NVIDIA's drivers? Any known problems with CoX that I should consider when making my choice?
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Ditto, been through 3 or 4 different nvidia cards with City of Heroes and never really had any problems.
But then I haven't had any problems with my ATI card on my laptop either, so YMMV.
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I've gone through one video card during my time playing CoH, I'm using a GTS 250. The only hiccup I've had was when I had to roll back to an older driver to play CoH and other things on my computer. The 275.33 driver caused blue screen crashes for me for some reason, I rolled back to 270.61, no problems. That was a few months ago. I haven't updated to the newest driver yet.
IDK. Every few COH updates, the game crashes my lap's nvidia.
the only suggestion i can make is avoid anything with an M on the end of the name number. those are special "manufacturer's model" types that get no driver support past their initial release. not really a problem unless your using a laptop like me.
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Never bothered me, Vendor drivers are usually a bag of **** anyway, so I've always used the Nvidia or ATI reference drivers on my laptops and I've never had any issues with them.
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Originally Posted by chrome guardsman
the only suggestion i can make is avoid anything with an M on the end of the name number. those are special "manufacturer's model" types that get no driver support past their initial release. not really a problem unless your using a laptop like me.
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actually i speak from experiance. my laptop has a geforce 7000M, and while the driver is Nvidia made, it's also a one off release, no updates.|
Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
Never bothered me, Vendor drivers are usually a bag of **** anyway, so I've always used the Nvidia or ATI reference drivers on my laptops and I've never had any issues with them.
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and running a regular geforce 7000 driver on it causes crashes.
I shifted to recommending nVidia on both of my parts lists because of the tiresome driver roulette with AMD. People still occasionally have problems with nVidia drivers but there isn't as much of a problem finding a driver that works.
The down side is similarly priced video cards from nVidia use more power and perform generally a little worse than AMD, because nVidia banks on PhysX and CUDA as well as gaming performance.
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Got burned quite badly by ATI cards a few revs ago. As such, I'm leery about trusting them again. ESPECIALLY now that AMD is in the picture.|
Originally Posted by Emberly
I am thinking of getting my partner a new graphics card, specifically the 560Ti. We've been ATI kinda folks for awhile now, but the drivers as of late have been irritating us. Specifically, anything newer than 11.4 has caused CoX to crash out with regularity. How are NVIDIA's drivers? Any known problems with CoX that I should consider when making my choice?
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While, at times, I've had minor annoyances from nVidia drives from time to time, I've never had flat-out situations where I cannot play a game.
Right now I have a 560Ti from EVGA and I have almost nothing in the way of stability issues (unless I forget to turn off my RC5-cracking GPU client).
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I don't think I've ever had problems with CoH on desktop nVidia cards. By which I mean a new driver has never caused my CoH client specifically to malfunction, and getting a new (or old) driver has never been a fix for a problem with the game that I recall.|
Originally Posted by Emberly
I am thinking of getting my partner a new graphics card, specifically the 560Ti. We've been ATI kinda folks for awhile now, but the drivers as of late have been irritating us. Specifically, anything newer than 11.4 has caused CoX to crash out with regularity. How are NVIDIA's drivers? Any known problems with CoX that I should consider when making my choice?
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It seems like once a long time ago there may have been a problem with textures in CoH after a new Issue, perhaps specifically combined with a new line of nViidia cards. I think I was not affected because I did not have one of those cards. I don't think it lasted long.
I have gone through at least four nVidia cards I can remember over the course of the game's history. My current nVidia card has some issues where every couple of weeks I need to power cycle my PC to reset something weird it is doing. It's the 1st nVidia card I've had in probably 9 years that's had an issue of that sort. (It's an eVGA 570 GTX.)
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My experience is anecdotal, but the one time I tried ATI... well, it ran the GAME great, but it would crash if I tried watching a youtube video. It couldn't handle video overlay, apparently. And I was NOT the only one who had this issue, there were entire threads on the AMD forums about this. Most 3rd party fixes revolved around fixing errors with the driverset, though the issue seemed to actually be a flaw in how the card was made.
As for nVidia? Never had a problem with it. I paid a little more for my GTX 460 compared to the ATI i had (though in all fairness the one I grabbed had been on discount... wonder why), and it doesn't seem to run the game QUITE as well, but it's never given me a problem. I'll trade 5fps for overall stability any day.
At the end of the day, IF your ATI card WORKS, it'll probably play games a little better than a nVidia of a comparable class and price range. However, recently, that's been a pretty big "IF"... which is a shame, because I'm a bit of an AMD fanboy but in this case I have to admit, they dropped the ball hard.
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I am thinking of getting my partner a new graphics card, specifically the 560Ti. We've been ATI kinda folks for awhile now, but the drivers as of late have been irritating us. Specifically, anything newer than 11.4 has caused CoX to crash out with regularity. How are NVIDIA's drivers? Any known problems with CoX that I should consider when making my choice?