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Originally Posted by scorpioofthewoods
But what happens when the company decides to quit supporting the closed source driver and then since they are no longer updated they stop working?
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I think you might be a bit confused about how support works.
Its not just a case of having an 'open source driver', you need the documentation for the video chip/GPU. That is why the intel i8XX chipset video has had major problems lately.....intel never released the documentation. So even though they have open source drivers, developers cant really fix the problems.
To be fair, its not just the lack of documentation that hurts the i8XX video, it was awful even at time of release.
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Originally Posted by scorpioofthewoods
That was the point I was trying to get across. If you don't really need the closed cards then look at something that is open such as Intel.
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Intel has had a lot of closed hardware, even if the drivers are open. GMA 500 was probably the worst. Even the HD XXXX series suff uses 'Tungsten Graphics' which was the source of the GMA 500 problem....
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Originally Posted by scorpioofthewoods
This is especially so since Intel cards have gotten better.
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So much better.....yeah, finally intel has caught up to the bottom of the heap, last gen video cards from nVidia and AMD. *waves flags, gets out party hats*
If intel didnt have (realistically) 100% of the chipset market for intel CPUs they wouldnt have managed to sell half, or even a quater of the video chips they do.
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Originally Posted by scorpioofthewoods
I am just frustrated at nvidia right now. I know my video card is old in my old desktop but there is nothing wrong with it for what it is used for. The open source drivers (thank the team for trying) don't always work all that great.
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Is this the real reason why you're anti-nvidia GPUs?
'Dont work all the great' would be nice compared to using the intel video chip of a similar age and the open source intel drivers.
