Thanks for sharing your experience Bryan, I guess all my problems were just isolated case and maybe ATI is better than NVIDIA?
The card I have in my Dell Inspiron 4100 is the ATI Mobilty Radeon (LY) with 16 MB. I have no idea if it works with Hoster, I never tried because I dont have a compatible drive for your software but with a Midi Karaoke software it doesn't work well.
The last ATI card I bought was the 9200 SE I believe & it was compatible with the directX 9.0 but didn't work well with Hoster demo, I had to bring it back after a week because after plugin a TV on the card the card went crazy, it was pumping all the time & I couldn't bring it work properly, tried a new installation... nothing I could do! It was a "Built by" not "Powered By"
MTUSUPPORT Added: The SE Edition of the cards has half of the Memory Interface of the other Versions. This makes the card slower than the other models of the 9200. We tested the SE and it would not work correctly. Click Here to see the comparison chart on ATI's website that shows the differences between the 9200 Series cards.
When I say have been having problems with their card I don't necessary mean with your software but overall, sensitive to resolution change, they have difficulties coming back to their default mode, with the old Microstudio for ex. If I had the 8 bit mode and was leaving the program the graphic had problems again going back to its default mode.
I built computers on my spare time and I was in fact only using ATI until I discover the MSI cards which are cheap, generous on their bundle and so stable.
I guess we can go on and on and we will never be able to really say who makes the best card, I guess each of our personal experience are just as good...
Regards