Android TV

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I Like my MSI R7 265 Video Card but Will Intel, AMD and Nvidia?

I have been on the fence about updating my video card for a long time now.  My Asus Nvidia 560 Ti had been a great video card.  After a driver update a couple of months ago my video on certain games started acting a little flaky.   I decided after a couple of unsuccessful driver re-installs in order to get rid of the problem that maybe it was time to replace the old video card.  I did a little online searching and found some other users had similar problems with "older" Nvidia products updating to a new driver.  Was that my problem?  Was it just that my video card was getting older and starting to fail?  Was it something completely unrelated?  Well, it was enough of an excuse to replace an old "toy" with a brand new shiny "toy."  No hard feeling Nvidia, I have had the exact same problem when using AMD/ATI products in the past.  I tend to keep hardware for a long time.  I probably keep hardware too long.  After about three years a person should probably upgrade or replace most hardware.  When you keep hardware longer than three years drivers and software are changing and you are not.  Both AMD and Nvidia have moved to "unified" drivers. Instead of making a driver for each separate piece of hardware they make they create a single driver package for all their hardware.  I don't like that, but that is the way things are now.  I would rather have a manufacturer tell me that they don't support new drivers for my old hardware than say they still support my hardware in a unified driver that really isn't optimizing for my old hardware.  This is not a rant against Nvidia, because like I said before, I have had the same problem with AMD/ATI.