Want to go from a nvidia card to ati card, what problems can i expect?

Hi,

I always have used nvidia cards (or matrox before that), but now i want to
try a ati card, what problems can i expect or what is the difference?
Because i once try a ati card (a few years ago) but i had so many problems
what that, that i return that card for a nvidia card. And the problems were
gone. So is it better now, saver to buy a ati card?

thanks in advance

Dick

I did the same a few months ago and had no problems. This is after many
years of Nvidia products. Your mileage may vary.




"anm" <leeg@ivmspam.nl> wrote in message
news:472460fc$0$18935$dbd49001@news.wanadoo.nl...
> Hi,
>
> I always have used nvidia cards (or matrox before that), but now i want to
> try a ati card, what problems can i expect or what is the difference?
> Because i once try a ati card (a few years ago) but i had so many problems
> what that, that i return that card for a nvidia card. And the problems
> were
> gone. So is it better now, saver to buy a ati card?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Dick
>
>

Not much difference at all, no matter what some fan boys wills ay. Just
make sure to remove the drivers before you install the new video card. You
can use add and remove programs .. even better is a program like driver
cleaner.

"anm" <leeg@ivmspam.nl> wrote in message
news:472460fc$0$18935$dbd49001@news.wanadoo.nl...
> Hi,
>
> I always have used nvidia cards (or matrox before that), but now i want to
> try a ati card, what problems can i expect or what is the difference?
> Because i once try a ati card (a few years ago) but i had so many problems
> what that, that i return that card for a nvidia card. And the problems
> were
> gone. So is it better now, saver to buy a ati card?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Dick
>
>

"anm" <leeg@ivmspam.nl> wrote in message
news:472460fc$0$18935$dbd49001@news.wanadoo.nl...
> Hi,
>
> I always have used nvidia cards (or matrox before that), but now i want to
> try a ati card, what problems can i expect or what is the difference?
> Because i once try a ati card (a few years ago) but i had so many problems
> what that, that i return that card for a nvidia card. And the problems
> were
> gone. So is it better now, saver to buy a ati card?

Unisntall the Nvidia drivers properly first, use a utility like Driver
Cleaner, follow it's instructions, install the ATI drivers, you should have
no issues. Sometimes just uninstalling the Nvidia drivers, shutting down and
rebooting with the new ATI card, and then installing the latest Catlysts can
give issues. Sometimes. Quite often it works just fine, but when it doesn't
you'll wish you went the Driver Cleaner route...

Thanks for all the answers, I guess it's alright to buy one. Thanks again.

gr

Dick

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:14:48 +0100, "anm" <leeg@ivmspam.nl> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I always have used nvidia cards (or matrox before that), but now i want to
>try a ati card, what problems can i expect or what is the difference?
>Because i once try a ati card (a few years ago) but i had so many problems
>what that, that i return that card for a nvidia card. And the problems were
>gone. So is it better now, saver to buy a ati card?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>Dick
>

I've gone from 9800 to x850xt to x1950pro, and all cards have
performed well for me. I like to run a very quiet system, so it is an
added bonus that the last 2 cards on the list have been 'silenced',
using the fan tweak feature, on the excellent ati tray tools.
Don't worry about having to install .net 2, or the ati control centre,
as these memory hogs can be brought under control with a bit of
registry/service editing!


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steve <AT> steveevans <DOT> org
-

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:32:39 +0000 'Steve Evans'
wrote this on alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati:

>I've gone from 9800 to x850xt to x1950pro, and all cards have
>performed well for me. I like to run a very quiet system, so it is an
>added bonus that the last 2 cards on the list have been 'silenced',
>using the fan tweak feature, on the excellent ati tray tools.
>Don't worry about having to install .net 2, or the ati control centre,
>as these memory hogs can be brought under control with a bit of
>registry/service editing!

Are you saying that it's possible to install an ATI X1950 card and
drivers *without* installing .NET? That would interest me since my
current ATI card (9800Pro) doesn't need .NET but afaik the later
ones do and I don't have it installed.

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:31:17 +0000, ATIuser
<atiuser@privacy.invalid.com> wrote:

>
>On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:32:39 +0000 'Steve Evans'
>wrote this on alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati:
>
>>I've gone from 9800 to x850xt to x1950pro, and all cards have
>>performed well for me. I like to run a very quiet system, so it is an
>>added bonus that the last 2 cards on the list have been 'silenced',
>>using the fan tweak feature, on the excellent ati tray tools.
>>Don't worry about having to install .net 2, or the ati control centre,
>>as these memory hogs can be brought under control with a bit of
>>registry/service editing!
>
>Are you saying that it's possible to install an ATI X1950 card and
>drivers *without* installing .NET? That would interest me since my
>current ATI card (9800Pro) doesn't need .NET but afaik the later
>ones do and I don't have it installed.

It's been a while since I did the install so this is from memory. I
recall that it's possible to install .net2 and the full ATI package,
then after a reboot (or two!), remove the registry entries, and
startup services that the drivers leave behind. You *may* see an
increase in memory usage after the above, but it's nothing like the
amount used if you leave all the startup junk in place.
I see approx 160MB used after a reboot of my PC, which is pretty good
IMHO....
All subsequent tweaks to the card are done with the excellent tray
tools, and it's massive 5MB memory usage!


-
steve <AT> steveevans <DOT> org
-

ATIuser wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:32:39 +0000 'Steve Evans'
> wrote this on alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati:
>
>> I've gone from 9800 to x850xt to x1950pro, and all cards have
>> performed well for me. I like to run a very quiet system, so it is an
>> added bonus that the last 2 cards on the list have been 'silenced',
>> using the fan tweak feature, on the excellent ati tray tools.
>> Don't worry about having to install .net 2, or the ati control centre,
>> as these memory hogs can be brought under control with a bit of
>> registry/service editing!
>
> Are you saying that it's possible to install an ATI X1950 card and
> drivers *without* installing .NET? That would interest me since my
> current ATI card (9800Pro) doesn't need .NET but afaik the later
> ones do and I don't have it installed.

Somewhat OT but what is the problem with .NET? (I ask because I just
installed it for PAINT.NET) Are you just trying to run a very 'lean'
system without extra junk or are there issues with .NET?
-mike

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:21:41 -0500 'Mike Ray'
wrote this on alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati:

>ATIuser wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:32:39 +0000 'Steve Evans'
>> wrote this on alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati:
>>
>>> I've gone from 9800 to x850xt to x1950pro, and all cards have
>>> performed well for me. I like to run a very quiet system, so it is an
>>> added bonus that the last 2 cards on the list have been 'silenced',
>>> using the fan tweak feature, on the excellent ati tray tools.
>>> Don't worry about having to install .net 2, or the ati control centre,
>>> as these memory hogs can be brought under control with a bit of
>>> registry/service editing!
>>
>> Are you saying that it's possible to install an ATI X1950 card and
>> drivers *without* installing .NET? That would interest me since my
>> current ATI card (9800Pro) doesn't need .NET but afaik the later
>> ones do and I don't have it installed.


>Somewhat OT but what is the problem with .NET? (I ask because I just
>installed it for PAINT.NET) Are you just trying to run a very 'lean'
>system without extra junk or are there issues with .NET?

Yes, I do like to run a lean machine and have ripped out large
unneeded parts of my XP-Pro-SP2 system. But also.....

There are no (tech) issues with .NET that I know of except that it
is *yet another fat layer* of MS bloat and seemingly it's primarily
beneficial to s/w developers, not end users.
Some folks think it's the thin end of the wedge from MS to
discreetly push another corporate goal: more web based services,
software and even op/sys thereby turning your local system into
little more than a dumb terminal. Imagine the day when to use
your Windows system, you have to be logged on to MS for dynamic
authentication. Not far off if MS get their way. There's a whole
army of users who are against .Net for these reasons.

<back to ATI cards>
If I could install an x1950 or similar in my next build w/o having
to install .NET to install the driver package, I'd want to do that.
I e-mailed nVidia a while back and *their* drivers do not need
..NET to install. hhmmm.