Been running ATI cards since as long as I can remember, never used a 3rd party software or driver on them and have never had a driver/software issue. Did have 2 9800 fans burn out and trash the card but ATI made good on replacing so I stuck with them. I have two friends that think I'm insane running ATI but over the years their NVidia cards last about 3/4 as long and have 10X the problems. I guess I'm just lucky... or someone is switching our cards at the UPS hub.