I used to be thrilled by AMD's David versus Goliath fight against Intel for CPU's. I figured that the main result was that we got better CPU's for our money and computing needs. And the same with ATI versus NVIDIA. Unfortunately, I've really been turned off by ATI graphics.
The problem - TDR errors. I've experienced TDR errors with BSOD's ONLY on ATI systems, and far too frequently to keep count. I've found ways to reduce the frequency. I cut back on UAC control on Win 7 to turn off that absurd screen blackout you get - on one older PC with an ATI AGP card, I got a TDR BSOD almost every time. And I'd had problems with the ATI graphics under WinXP as well. BTW, turning UAC blackouts off cleared much of the TDR BSOD problem, but not all. And yes, I've kept up the driver versions.
A year ago I got a HP DV7 as a warranty replacement. It had hybrid ATI Intel graphics - and despite decades of IT experience, had no idea of what I was getting myself into. I found that Chrome would use the ATI graphics and I'd then get the same old TDR BSOD's. I had to force Chrome to only use Intel. Then came IE10 for Win 7, and I found out the hard way that IE10 for Win 7 was not compatible with this setup. I reported it to MS, and got a confirmation from them a day later, then eventually found the KB article on the subject. That was 2 plus months ago and I've heard nothing from HP, Microsoft or ATI/AMD on fixes for the problem.
In contrast, I have a very old laptop (HP DV9000) running Win 7 with Nvidia graphics; it's not much of a system by today's standards but one thing I have not seen problems with are the graphics hardware or drivers. I have a desktop system I built myself with an NVIDA card on an Asus mobo and I72-600k. Regular Nvidia driver updates, but no noticable problems with the Nvidia graphics except maybe one bad driver release.
I know I'm not the only one - the question - how many of you have seen the same issues with ATI?
The problem - TDR errors. I've experienced TDR errors with BSOD's ONLY on ATI systems, and far too frequently to keep count. I've found ways to reduce the frequency. I cut back on UAC control on Win 7 to turn off that absurd screen blackout you get - on one older PC with an ATI AGP card, I got a TDR BSOD almost every time. And I'd had problems with the ATI graphics under WinXP as well. BTW, turning UAC blackouts off cleared much of the TDR BSOD problem, but not all. And yes, I've kept up the driver versions.
A year ago I got a HP DV7 as a warranty replacement. It had hybrid ATI Intel graphics - and despite decades of IT experience, had no idea of what I was getting myself into. I found that Chrome would use the ATI graphics and I'd then get the same old TDR BSOD's. I had to force Chrome to only use Intel. Then came IE10 for Win 7, and I found out the hard way that IE10 for Win 7 was not compatible with this setup. I reported it to MS, and got a confirmation from them a day later, then eventually found the KB article on the subject. That was 2 plus months ago and I've heard nothing from HP, Microsoft or ATI/AMD on fixes for the problem.
In contrast, I have a very old laptop (HP DV9000) running Win 7 with Nvidia graphics; it's not much of a system by today's standards but one thing I have not seen problems with are the graphics hardware or drivers. I have a desktop system I built myself with an NVIDA card on an Asus mobo and I72-600k. Regular Nvidia driver updates, but no noticable problems with the Nvidia graphics except maybe one bad driver release.
I know I'm not the only one - the question - how many of you have seen the same issues with ATI?
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