News Game developers urge Nvidia RTX 30 and 40 series owners rollback to December 2024 driver after recent RTX 50-centric release issues

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Radeon 6700 XT and 6750 XT for my wife and son are working great in inZOI. In fact, it's a surprisingly stable game considering it just launched in Early Access, so it's too bad that nVidia had to taint that for their customers.
 
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Heiro78 said:
In the long run, it seems to be cyclical. Hopefully it doesn't go back to AMD ever again.
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yea by all means I believe it's a cyclic thing, ppl do mess up big times once a while, so no party is immune, but tbf, that is the dumbest arguement of driver stability to choose one over another. they arn't that far away since I recall when I try build my first ever high end 9700pro...
 
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YSCCC said:
yea by all means I believe it's a cyclic thing, ppl do mess up big times once a while, so no party is immune, but tbf, that is the dumbest arguement of driver stability to choose one over another. they arn't that far away since I recall when I try build my first ever high end 9700pro...
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You're saying driver stability is the dumbest reason to choose a video card? The sentence was a little confusing to me
 
Just saying I don’t want to hear now about how great nvidia drivers are and how bad AMD supposedly is.

Realistically these types of issues do happen, and nvidia will get it fixed, but when you’re an end user waiting for a fix you’re not having a lot of fun sometimes.
 
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Heiro78 said:
You're saying driver stability is the dumbest reason to choose a video card? The sentence was a little confusing to me
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correct.

as someone who has owned both team red and green gpus, even recently, the gpu driver stability issue is 100% a myth. both team green and team red gpu drivers appear to be about the same in my book for stability baring some weird bug like nvidia is going through the standard behavior of both companies drivers is pretty similarly stable.
 
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YSCCC said:
Let me tell a joke...

"AMD drivers are bad, so even if they have better C/P, we buy Nvidia" 😉

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Well, that's how I felt many years ago. The last time I tried a Radeon was when they were still ATI and had problems. But due to the obviously inflated prices from Nvidia, next card will likely be AMD or even Intel.

Also, I don't install new drivers unless the notes state something I need for the card I have. If none of my current playing games are listed and no features or bugs fixes I am experiencing are listed I don't install. I wouldn't be installing BIOS updates just because they're newer.
 
fiyz said:
*Knock knock*

Who's there?

-a PC gamer

Go away, us console gamers don't want your jank.
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Is this some sort of ironic joke I don't understand or you are really a console boy who came on a PC hardware website to talk trash about PC gamers? By the way, console players being condescending toward PC gamers is like a 3-year-old kid who says his tricycle is much better than a mountain bike because he doesn't need to keep balance or do all the gear maintenance.
 
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ingtar33 said:
correct.

as someone who has owned both team red and green gpus, even recently, the gpu driver stability issue is 100% a myth. both team green and team red gpu drivers appear to be about the same in my book for stability baring some weird bug like nvidia is going through the standard behavior of both companies drivers is pretty similarly stable.
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Thanks for the input but the commenter clarified they meant "that blindly believe one side is always better in driver quality is the dumbest reason"
 
JayGau said:
Is this some sort of ironic joke I don't understand or you are really a console boy who came on a PC hardware website to talk trash about PC gamers? By the way, console players being condescending toward PC gamers is like a 3-year-old kid who says his tricycle is much better than a mountain bike because he doesn't need to keep balance or do all the gear maintenance.
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This analogy got a chuckle out of me
 
YSCCC said:
Let me tell a joke...

"AMD drivers are bad, so even if they have better C/P, we buy Nvidia" 😉

/s
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So funny to see AMD users wiping out 15 years of history because an Nvidia driver series has issues. That's the first time in 20 years that I have problems with an Nvidia driver.

With Nvidia now focusing on AI, this situation might become the new normal, but it doesn't change the past.
 
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With the amount of time nvidia had to develop drivers for the 50 series it's somewhat surprising to see as many issues as there has been out of the gate. While we'll never know for sure the source it sure doesn't seem unreasonable to blame their AI focus which may have impacted the size/experience of their driver team. I've been fortunate in not having any issues with the games I've been playing since 572 launch.

As for AMD vs nvidia on drivers both tend to have their random issues and it has been that way for years. Drivers certainly wouldn't be on my list of reasons to pick one over the other.
 
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JayGau said:
So funny to see AMD users wiping out 15 years of history because an Nvidia driver series has issues. That's the first time in 20 years that I have problems with an Nvidia driver.

With Nvidia now focusing on AI, this situation might become the new normal, but it doesn't change the past.
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Nobody is "wiping out 15 years of history" -- it's just refreshing that this isn't a talking point anymore for the Radeon haters.

I think a lot of us are still just musing over how bad this 50 series launch has been.
 
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JayGau said:
So funny to see AMD users wiping out 15 years of history because an Nvidia driver series has issues. That's the first time in 20 years that I have problems with an Nvidia driver.

With Nvidia now focusing on AI, this situation might become the new normal, but it doesn't change the past.
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I didn't have any driver issues with my last several AMD cards. I did have an issue with 3060 card, it was solved by Nvidia 1 patch later. I'm currently using a 4080 super and have had issues since the 50 series launch.

It's not 15 years of history and that's people's point. Nvidia users have been saying this line for years, but it hasn't been true.

AMD drivers have been no better or worse than Nvidia for at least a decade now. The problems AMD did have were not necessarily their fault, it was due to poor optimization by game developers back when AMD was cash strapped due to unfair business practices by Intel. Nvidia with their big pockets were paying developers to optimize for Nvidia. Now with most games being developed on a handful of game engines and console hardware being on AMD for 2 generations now, it hasn't been much of an issue for the last decade.

Intel is the only one with bad drivers now.
 
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