SR3's issues are mainly with certain AMD cards it appears. Works perfectly smooth on my rig at highest settings and 1920x1200. It's clearly the definitive version and nowhere close to SR2's outsourced port job.I went from a Geforce 6800 -> x1950GT -> 3850 -> 4850 -> 5850 -> 2x 5850
The only game that gave me a vendor specific performance issue was Saints Row the goddamned Third. I should have known better after Saints Row 2.
Everybody else apart from ID does...
Have 5870s in Crossfire. Going to upgrade this season. The question is either AMD or Nvidia with me leaning towards Nvidia to avoid less bullshit. I am curious how much of a jump this is going to be for me.
Yep, I've been having more and more issues lately, going to switch to Nvidia next cycle.
Was I the only one who was confused about a thread title that seemed to be talking about a 9 year old budget-line video card?
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Was I the only one who was confused about a thread title that seemed to be talking about a 9 year old budget-line video card?
Are the 6000 series cards likely to drop in price when the 7000 series releases? Was thinking of buying a 6950, but I can wait a little longer.
Hopefully this news get nvidia talking about their new cards. I want to know how much longer I have to wait, no way in hell am I buying a radeon. I want the most trouble free computing experience possible.
Never understood the hate for the AMD drivers, outside of RAGE, I've never had a major issue. Someone mentioned Crysis 2 and BF3, but I had no issues with either.
I wish they would just name cards by year and some indication of the relative power.
Its just GAF hyperbole. AMD had some issues recently, public memory is short.What's with the bad driver talk on AMD's side?
I still have my HD 4870 and no problems whatsoever.
Its just GAF hyperbole. AMD had some issues recently, public memory is short.
A single 7950 should be faster than your CF(and a lot faster in min. fps) with less than half the power consumption.
7950 ~150w
HD5870 ~175w / 320w CF
Woah woah, I thought we were talking gaming related issues. Should I bring up Nvidia's show stopping issues with Vista?I've had many driver issues with AMD cards going as far back as the 9800 pro. Look up Radeon + photoshop, 3ds Max, Maya issues on google.
Its just GAF hyperbole. AMD had some issues recently, public memory is short.
But that's pretty much how it already works.
"HD 6850"
6 -- card generation, higher can mean more features, less power/heat, etc
8 -- performance level, higher means better performance.
5,0 -- performance sublevel, higher means stronger but not as much as above
Card generation is preferable over year because card generations don't really last a year or less
Are the 6000 series cards likely to drop in price when the 7000 series releases? Was thinking of buying a 6950, but I can wait a little longer.