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AMD does not use any kind of strong-armed tactics, in fact it's against their internal code of conduct, all the evidence for Nvidia's strong-armed tactics is well documented during the geforce 6000, 7000, 200, 400, 500 & now we are seeing it again.
A few examples are the 3DMark benchmark scandel, & in he early 2000s where Nvidia strong-armed the developers into not supporting ATi's far superior anti aliasing implementation in-games.
Nvidia in fact does not offer less problematic solutions, as evidenced by the catastrophe that is the 312.08 drivers that killed cards.
I have no loyalty to any company, but I refuse to support any company that harms the customer, Nvidia continually does things to harm AMD customers, if you call that better driver support then you have bought Nvidia's PR.
I bet you've never owned a crossfirex setup, AMD did in fact have a stutter free experience through their RadeonPro software, the software is in fact developed by indepednent fans but all of its features were implemented with the help of AMD engineers.
Where do you think Nvidia got Adaptive V-Sync from ? it was stolen from RadeonPro, AMD users had access to dynamic V-Sync for over 4 years.
The only reason people like you buy Nvidia cards is because they feel elitist by doing so, they feel like the big green bully is their friend & when that big green bully starts beating up on the small red folk you stand and applaud, disgusting.[/quotemsg]
ok, for starters, nvidia drivers didnt kill cards, it was overclocking and furmark that killed them, the drivers worked fine.
you bet i havnt owned crossfire? I owned crossfire 6850's (after owning a single 6850 for some time before i aquired the second card), after hearing all the raving about how they scale so well and how microstuttering was a thing of the past.... I have used amd/ati for a long time, amongst some nvidia cards, dating back to ATI radeon 8500 and nvidia riva 128. I have had my fair share of experience with both companies. I have had no real issues with either until crossfire.
Radeonpro does not fix the problems, it covers them up with framerate limiters, which do what they say, limit your framerate...... which defies the point of having 2 cards to increase your framerate. not a solution! When your talking about something being disgusting, you should be talking about how AMD/ATI have had this crossfire problem since the beginning and are only now actually trying to fix it. I will have no problem buying their future cards if they do fix this properly. until then, no thanks. In my time i owned a single 6850, 9800pro and 8500 from AMD/ATI, they were fine, i suffered none of the "strong arm tactics" you claim, all games ran fine, even the NVTWIMTBP titles. Stop being a fanboy, judge companies for the quality of the products they produce. i have no issue buying an AMD product if it is superior in it's price segment and its application. Unfortunately AMD fall's short in dual card configs for gaming at this point in time. No amount of fanboyism will change that.