Personal computing discussed
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clone wrote:no one was forcing anyone to update...... AMD is likely doing this to save money and no, discontinuing an active driver improvement program and changing it to a reactionary one will likely not end positively which is a shame given AMD's drivers were arguably getting better than Nvidia's (cards that exploded and cards that burned out in SC2 due to driver issues anyone?).
the monthly update process seemed to cause more pr problems for AMD anyway so it's a win win with saved money and a better looking product presented the same way Nvidia does it.
clone wrote:AMD's drivers were arguably getting better than Nvidia's (cards that exploded and cards that burned out in SC2 due to driver issues anyone?).
derfunkstein wrote:There were reports of nVidia cards overheating when you sat in the menus of Starcraft II for too long. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia ... ,9802.html
absurdity wrote:I do remember back in the day with the original Radeons, that ATI released driver updates without a schedule, and they were terrible. Switching to a monthly release seemed to fix the problem, as their drivers got a lot better after that.