[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Elkwood]

Ati is perfectly fine, I've had more issues with Nvidia than I did with Ati/Amd -- the only reason developers still deal with Nvidia is because they're very quick to sponsor and supply newest hardware.

Also you don't have different preferences, your line of thinking comes to:

"Ati drivers sucks, Nvidia ftw."

If you had something like "I prefer Nvidia because their drivers in my opinion are better designed" then it would be talking about preference -- a lot of 3D modelers prefer ATI over Nvidia lately as well.

This thread isn't about it, but saying Ati sucks basically you knew would start a "debate".

It is my opinion but fine since you want my exact reasoning I saw many different revisions when playing FFXI because ATI refused to include drivers for 2 years until 173.18 that ran the game fine. Meanwhile people who were running Nvidia based cards with near identical specs had almost no issues with the game. I had a ATI and Nvidia card for many years and watched how it performed compared to its counterpart. It was my choice to move away from ATI at the time and I stand by it. Sure if I go with ATI for the money I can get a much beefier card compared to what I get nowadays with Nvidia, however I just prefer Nvidia and based on my experience with how they programmed drivers to run with FFXI completely ignoring how the game was designed and I stand by my decision.

It was not nor ever was my intention to turn this into an Nvidia/ATI debate, I fully believe that both cards to date are manufactured fine and that it is FFXIV that is currently the issue with things not the cards atmo. My opinion may change once SE actually sits down and optimizes the game to utilize the individual pieces of hardware as it should be designed for.

I stated my opinion and obviously it is being taken out of context. I did not post it because I knew it would start a "Debate" I posted it because that is what I believe.