Quote Originally Posted by Geezer57
Actually, if you compare similar graphics chip generations, it's pretty much a wash between NVidia and ATI hardware. Back in the day, I was a big fan of the original Voodoo and Voodoo-2 graphics cards - I still have a pair of Voodoo-2's that ran in SLI together. But NVidia's Riva TNT hardware wooed me with a bigger bang for the buck, and I became a dedicated NVidia user for years.

But when ATI introduced the Radeon 9700 series cards, it was pretty clear that my old GeForce 4 card was outmatched. And when NVidia's rebuttal (the first of the GeForce 5x00 series) bombed compared to the Radeon 9700, I tried my first ATI card - and was hooked!

But times changed, and now NVidia has bounced back - but image quality between the two is pretty much a non-issue. At any given price point, you can get a great card from either ATI or NVidia, and not really be able to tell the difference between them. Because of driver conflicts only (and that may someday be resolved), and only with this particular game (Medieval), I recommend ATI over NVidia.
Okay, let me explain. I ran to similar GFX cards that came out around the same time. An ATI Radeon 9600 and a Geforce 5500. Yes, I know the ATI ran a trillion times faster but when I put them in the same computer with the same configs - just swapping out the cards. THE NVIDIA HAD A WAY BETTER PICTURE!!!! I wish I had a screenshot but I swear upon my childs life the Nvidia card was a lot better on the eyecandy. The difference wasn't little either, the color was way better. The only thing the ATI card had was a little sharper picture. For pure realism much less immersion factor, stick with Nvidia - except for MTW.