Who has better Vista x64 drivers? nVidia or ATi?

[ginfest]

Originally posted by: Cheex
I've had no problems with my Nvidia drivers with Vista x64.

what he said

 

[Keysplayr]

Just goes to show us all, that no two systems are the same. Nvidia or ATI drivers are probably just fine in X64. (On a naked windows installation that is). What the individual does with their systems beyond the initial OS install and proper drivers, is what leads to system stability/instability for the most part (besides defective hardware of course).

Users individuality is what makes or breaks a system.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

I have an assload of games installed on my x64 Vista using 8800GT. The only game that acts funny is Sim City 4 Deluxe...and I installed it just cos I own it

COD2, COD4, Far Cry, Crysis, Command & Conquer III, SupCom, Company of Heroes OF, FEAR -- oh, fear. This is a game that gives me a little bit of trouble on exit but I'm thinking that it may have something to do with Alchemy and my X-Fi.

THe point is I have virtually every must have PC game made since Doom3 and have very little problems; no show-stopping bugs.

 

[zero2dash]

Originally posted by: cputeq
There is absolutely no way to quantify an answer suitable for this question, because I can assure you zero people have done testing on 100% of the software out there on x64 with both sets of drivers.

Secondly, the OP didn't state what he/she meant by "better", so it's a flawed question to begin with.

Better speed?
Better compatibility?
Better visual quality? Installation routine? SLI/XF performance or compatibility?
Better at playing all the old games, or just the new ones? Or both?
Better at one particular game or subset of games?

Fair enough.
Better as in "no crashes", errors, lock ups etc of any kind. IE stability is what I'm looking for.

I've had a Radeon 9500 for about 4 years now and the Catalyst Control Center crashes on me practically on a daily basis which is why I was planning on getting an nVidia card this time around. *Then* I recalled reading about nVidia having worse drivers under Vista than ATi, but I haven't heard anything lately as to whether either is stable or more stable than the other. I threw in the x64 mention because that's what I'll be running.

I'm still unsure of what card I'm going to get but I was hoping this would help in that regard as well. I'd love to get an 8800GT; I can't say I don't have the money because I do (will finish my build purchasing with our tax refund) but whether or not I will actually *use* the card in any capacity I don't know. I used to 50/50 console/PC game, these days I don't have any PC games because my current system is weak for gaming and I have a 360. Problem is - now that I'll potentially have a PC capable of gaming though, I could go back 50/50 in which case I'd want a good video card for playing FPS on my 22" LCD (ie 8800GT)

Thanks for everyone's input.

 

[lavaheadache]

As an sli user i feel as though it isn't fair for me to chime in, lol. These puppies can be a pain in the ass no matter what OS I have going. I dual boot Xp and Vista 64. Not a typical dual boot, but seperate hard drives that I select from the bios

 

[taltamir]

I love it when people claim to have "driver problems" when they overclock their cards... that nvlkm crash means that your video card crashed, the drivers werent respoding because the video card crashed, so vista reset the video card, terminated the driver, and ran a new copy of it.

IT does it for both ATI and nvidia... If you were in XP you would have just had a stuck image and had to manually power cycle your computer. end result, your video card is being overclocked too hard. (you were trying to overclock an 8800GTX? those things are pushed to the limit as it is!)

 

[neothe0ne]

I've never tried an ATI card in my Vista x64 system, but NVIDIA's drivers work great for me and my 8600GT.

 

[Ika]

I've had a few issues with my 8800GTS 320mb (maybe 4-5 different driver versions), but nothing too bad except FEAR - it runs at an unplayable framerate, which has nothing to do with my settings. Haven't tried reinstalling yet, gonna do that when I get back to college.