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Game Forum / Action Games / Doom / August 2004ATI is worthless
Before you think about spending your hard-earned money on ATI products you should realize some facts. For one, not only is ATI hardware second rate, but their drivers are always full of bugs. They even warn you against installing the latest drivers, saying only install the drivers if you are having a problem with the previous drivers. I just upgraded my system to 3.2 P4 E CPU on an Asus P4P800-E DX motherboard, and I don't even know if my Radeon 9800 is running at 8X AGP. The "Smart Gart (tm)" bullshit - which is supposed to tell you what rate your video card is running at - is turned off, and the computer becomes unstable when you try to turn it on. Then I was f.cking stupid enough to buy an ATI TV Wonder card. Before I upgraded I was able to get it running after installing and uninstalling various drivers. But every time I turned on the TV I had to turn on the "line in" because the idiot program shut it off. Now when I turn on the TV with the latest drivers it crashes while watching it. And not only that, it won't shut down, not even with Windows XP Task Manager. I have to shut down and turn off the power to get rid of the worthless piece of sh.t. (Not to mention all the problems you get with the voice being out of sync ) ATI products are a sad joke. Hopefully the company will go out of business so people won't get duped into buying worthless crap and end up wasting their hard-earned dollars. But if you want second rate performance and a lot of headaches, buy ATI products. But if you have any f.cking sense you will avoid them like the plague. Another satisfied ATI customer :/ > Before you think about spending your hard-earned money on ATI products > you should realize some facts. Damn, now I'm going to have to get a refund on my x800Pro. Thanks for putting me straight. I feel so stupid now. Oh... hang on. I love my x800, despite the number of extra hours I had to work to get it. Maybe I'm ill or something? Andrew McP PS FWIW I'm not a big fan of *any* make of AIW card. Nice optional extras, but these extra features add a whole lot of potential hardware complications for not a lot of money. And at the end of the day you get what you pay for. > Before you think about spending your hard-earned money on ATI products > you should realize some facts. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Another satisfied ATI customer :/ PEBKAC Well, my X800SE rocks! And this is a budget card. It came with the PC I bought and I am perfectly happy. My previous PC had an ATI Radeon 7200 and I was always happy, even though it quickly ran out of breath when I tried to play 3D games, but then I did not buy it with games in mind at that time. Now I do pay attention and the X800SE does not let me down. But if you're unhappy then why don't you try to get a refund? Jay > Before you think about spending your hard-earned money on ATI products > you should realize some facts. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Another satisfied ATI customer :/ > Before you think about spending your hard-earned money on ATI products > you should realize some facts. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Another satisfied ATI customer :/ And the Doom3 relevance is ...... Simon > They even warn you against installing the latest drivers, saying only > install the drivers if you are having a problem with the previous > drivers. That's true for *any* hrdware of *any* make. marc > But if you want second rate performance and a lot of headaches, buy > ATI products. But if you have any f.cking sense you will avoid them > like the plague. > > Another satisfied ATI customer :/ sh.t man, my 9800xt has been the best purchase ever in all categories of commercial goods. not a problem anywhere, have had it running with all drivers from 4.4 to 4.8, omegas equivalent also (test different drivers based on performance NOT instability). Not a damn problem... not to mention i run dual monitors, and the occasional Tv out.. its overclocked and quite aggresevely, and it does a sh.t load of work in gaming, and runs taxing games like farcry and doom3 on maximum details. this card till not so long ago, was the best gaming card in the world, so dont go talking sh.t and think that a little complain like urs is going to change a world of happy Ati owners, ur facts are based on your expirience, which could well mean that youve made some mistakes somewhere, bad configuration, or something. Yes its possible that u have a bad card, but theres millions who have the same card who would quite disagree with your FACTS. dude ive got sense and alot of it, maybe ur missing some sense in whats required to keep a stable system. i heard of a myth, that theres people out there that dont know what their doing?? could this be true about you??  SignatureAlmeyda AMD2500XP @3200XP-11X200-2.21Ghz | A7N8X-E Deluxe | Corsair TWINX1024 XMS3200XL 5-2-2-2 DualChannel | HIS Excalibur 9800XT 256mb @459/398 (Omegas 2.5.67 & ATI tool 0.21 No Artifacts) 1x80GB SATA Seagate 8mg cache | 2x40GB ATA Seagate | SB AudigyES | ANTEC SuperLanboy 350 Case (350W SmartBlue PS) | Doom3 @ 1024x768 Ultra High, all visuals on. (Demo1 = 43fps vcard not o'clocked) >> But if you want second rate performance and a lot of headaches, buy >> ATI products. But if you have any f.cking sense you will avoid them [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > i heard of a myth, that theres people out there that dont know what their > doing?? could this be true about you?? I agree with the above. My 9800XT was bought as a replacement for a NVidia TI4600 and it rox. No problems with the 9800 PRO. The bang for your buck on the 9800 series is pretty nice. In fact the ATI drivers do something my nvidia card couldn't do: output both VGA and S-Video at the same time. Most "ati driver problems" in regards to gaming can usually be traced to bad/old sound drivers, in my experience. Gamers have to understand that sound drivers are of incredible importance as modern games are sound resource heavy and sound problems will crash a game, thus making a lot of people assume it was the video sub-system. Gee, I dont know what to add. I mean, you post with the name "ATI sucks." Not exactly being impartial here. Anyway, whatever works for you. SignatureMike Block Banner Ads Now http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html Why don't you ask for help in alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati unless this is simply a troll posting. > Before you think about spending your hard-earned money on ATI products > you should realize some facts. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Another satisfied ATI customer :/ Maybe you're a jackass. Signature-Scott "Spreading a little of my sunshine throughout Usenet hell." troll, hes also posted in alt.games.half-life same sh.t, hes just stiring. SignatureAlmeyda AMD2500XP @3200XP-11X200-2.21Ghz | A7N8X-E Deluxe | Corsair TWINX1024 XMS3200XL 5-2-2-2 DualChannel | HIS Excalibur 9800XT 256mb @459/398 (Omegas 2.5.67 & ATI tool 0.21 No Artifacts) 1x80GB SATA Seagate 8mg cache | 2x40GB ATA Seagate | SB AudigyES | ANTEC SuperLanboy 350 Case (350W SmartBlue PS) | Doom3 @ 1024x768 Ultra High, all visuals on. (Demo1 = 43fps vcard not o'clocked) > Before you think about spending your hard-earned money on ATI products > you should realize some facts. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Another satisfied ATI customer :/ I'm not an ATI fan either, but as long as you state your *opinions* as facts you're gonna get flamed. - Brian > Before you think about spending your hard-earned money on ATI products > you should realize some facts. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Another satisfied ATI customer :/ |
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