Laptop with good graphics card and sound

[Radical Dreamer]

What were the problems with the ati drivers? Im sure they didnt completly crash your system and prevent it from booting at all like nvidia drivers do, that should be enough make you never buy nvidia.

No, they make my monitor run at some retarded resolution where the pointer is the size of a baseball and wont allow me to change it, also there are many graphical "glitches" and sometimes for no reason the machine will reboot (with the omega drivers) and the error report shows its the ati drivers.

Also they run quake 2 at about 50 times the speed its supposed to be played and it makes unreal tournament run slow and then fast (dell drivers)

The only ones that run ok are the ATI ones, but they dont support all the features of my card, like the tv-out.

[NooNoo]

Then Radical, your beef is with Dell for distributing inadequate drivers, not with ATI.

[Damned Angel]

Ok, so we agree that both Nvidia and ATI drivers suck, now I think the real question is who's drivers suck the least? ATI or Nvidia?

[Radical Dreamer]

Then Radical, your beef is with Dell for distributing inadequate drivers, not with ATI.

No, my beef is with ATI, All 3 drivers suck (dell, omega and ATI) Ati's just suck the least of the 3, I've had.

None of the 3 drivers will work well with quake 2 and/or UT.

So, in order of crappines, its

ATI = crappy
dell = crappier
omega = crappiest

Also, another reason why my beef is with ATI is omega and dell both just take the referance drivers and tweak em, they were broke to begin with, they just break em more :P

Oh and as far as the nvidia driver are concerned, I've only had problems with ONE release, the 23.11/23.12 (23.11 was released by nvidia and the 23.12 were released by M$) they never "crashed" the machine, they just caused random reboots