Nvidia’s Friday “nTeresting” newsletter always does its best to stir things up and this morning was no exception.
“ATI Drivers…Awwwwwkward!” was the snarky sub title given to Brian Burke’s latest batch of jibes.
“There has been an unusual amount of activity in the forums from Radeon users complaining about stability issues with HD 5000 series graphics cards,” he alleges.
“Most of the complaints appear to be focused on the HD 5870, HD 5850 and HD 5770. Problems include grey screens, crashes, coloured stripes on screens and system hang-ups.”
Why Nvidia feels the urge to re-hash old forum comments when it probably should be doing something a bit more productive with its time – like getting Fermi and DX11 support out to the mases – is a bit beyond us, especially as the particular issues mentioned by Burke are weeks old and are being fixed as we type.
“The fix is out for the Gray Screen issue,” AMD spinner Chris Hook told TechEye, adding that “very few users were affected in reality, and the noise in the forums didn’t mesh with the amount of end user feedback our AIBs were receiving.”
Still, it all makes for nteresting Nvidia fanboy reading, we presume.
Another topic in nTeresting which Mr. Burke seems to return to with incredible frequency? The purported shoddiness of Catalyst drivers.
Burke claims his firm works hard to avoid driver issues “with a robust developer relations programme we call ‘The Way It’s Meant To Be Played’.”
AMD, he reckons, “hates it and tries to mis-position it in “Fuddy” interviews by calling it a marketing program where we pay to have a logo in a game.” But apparently that’s not true.
At least, not according to the Friday gospel of Burke. nTeresting…
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One Thing About AMD future is 45 nm process. Where its' been, Assorted Poorness results. This X3 Pumped readly to X4, then fell backin 4 months to x3 ,NOW, After 9 Months its' X2. How Great Is That, Phenom II, yet My Guess Something Stankee' in DenMarks. So X6 Might turn Up AMD Price Smile, Yet Bull & Radical Workstation Change is Question nvidia Seems to Have Missed.
And how's that Fermi coming along, boys? What's that, I can't hear you....
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do not know about the issues but it could be under certain software conditions that most users wouldnt use, or under certain hardware configurations, might be using ati board with a certain brand of motherboard, this is why it can be fixed with software nothing wrong with the hardware.