I came into just a bit of extra money recently and it's time to upgrade the video card. I currently have a radeon 64MB DDR VIVO card.
I don't want to give up the Video in feature, because I anticipate using it quite a bit once the baby arrives, and my camera and VCRS are not S-Video compliant, so that rules out the NVIDIA cards I've seen.
I'm seriously looking at this http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...=Atlantis+VIVO
ATI OEM RADEON 9000 ATLANTIS 64MB DDR TV VIVO NO DVI AGP 250/200 BULK
for the minimal amount of gaming I do this should be a pretty big upgrade for me and the picture shows both composite and S-video inputs/outputs so I wouldn't loose my capture ability.
what concerns me is the "powered by ATI" how do these third party cards work when it comes to driver updates. Is it like NVIDIA where the Detonator reference drivers will work with anything that has an NVIDIA GPU? Or are the drivers company specific? I don't want to get this than find I can't use the latest catalyst drivers from ATI and have this company stop supplying drivers. anyone have any experience with the "powered by ATI" cards yet.
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