Yes, stability matters. I don't care that much about performance also. Even I would like to see ATI as an alternative in professional graphics especially with softimage! I'm not an Nvidia fanboy at all. I bought an ATI-FireGL card two years ago because it was officially certified for Softimage. Just to realize it was not.
Even softimage developers admitted (afterwards) this card did not work well with it. These flaws with ATI and proffesional graphics goes a long way. ATI cards were problematic with softimage for about what, 10 years? And I personally would go so far to call it a no go for any professional DCC application. my 2 cents. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Lind Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 20:23 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Graphic card for a workstation again We are a games development studio making MMORPG games. Most of the computers we buy come stocked with ATI Radeons, but no matter how much we try to make them work, they just don't. Crashes, glitches, overheating, etc. We always have to swap them out for Nvidia GeForce cards to get stability. Framerate isn't everything, stability often matters more. Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mirko Jankovic Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 10:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Graphic card for a workstation again Maybe it is so but it still doesn't change the fact that after replacing gtx580 with radeon7970 I got HUGE improvement in frame rates in viewport and no problems at all as well :) It seems that all new gtx cards after 280 are crippled in an effort to push overpriced quadros. But ofc we need to make differences between big studios on one side (usually huge budgets :)) and small to mid studios and freelancers.
