I don't know if that's a fair comparison... AMD might have bought ATI, but they're not exactly the same company anymore...
Plus back then the concept of needing drivers for hardware was rather new... prior to SVGA, DOS games talked to the hardware directly or just dumped data into a chunk of memory for the video card to display.
unixhero
I don't agree. The Windows 2000 drivers were critical to get the card to work. However almost all the time the card would not work, it would not give you dvd mpeg-2 playback as the product and ATI promised.
Plus back then the concept of needing drivers for hardware was rather new... prior to SVGA, DOS games talked to the hardware directly or just dumped data into a chunk of memory for the video card to display.