I find it interesting how all these people with "industry experience" always have trouble with ATI cards. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones to have never had a problem with any of my cards in the past 15 years of PC gaming that required more than a quick web search to see what the issue was.

My previous video cards and the OS they were running on. . .

Windows 95/98
Some 3DFX card
S3 something card
Voodoo 2
Voodoo 3, 3000
Voodoo 5, 5500
Some Matrox card I only had for a week.

Windows ME
Radeon 7200

Windows XP
GeForce3 Ti 500
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9800 Pro
GeForce 6500

Windows Vista
Radeon x1400
Some Geforce 7 series card
Radeon 4800
Radeon 5770

Throughout the various upgrades, I've usually managed to make a profit off of all the trades or sales with the exception of 3 or 4 of them. I sold my last system which was a decent rig for about $400 more than it was actually worth, so right now I'm using a system that I built entirely from old systems I've found in the electronics recycle bin at the dump and waiting for CloD to be patched to a "working state" before I spend my cash on a gaming rig.

Out of all these systems, I've never had an issue that kept me from playing a game. The only occasional problem would usually involve a 2 minute google search for the issue, then a small fix recommended by someone with a similar problem. 9 time out of 10 this problem was an issue with Windows not having a specific update or dll. As for ATI issues, the only problem was when playing the Combat Mission series, and the text in-game had an opaque box around it. That was a 15 second fix. As for Nvidia issues, I think one was with the game Messiah (which was a bugfest) and the other was with one of the early 3D RTS games (Metal Fatigue I think). That was rectified by waiting a month for the next driver update.

As for CloD and ATI, I'd say the blame rests on Maddox Games as this is one of the buggiest games I have ever, EVER encountered.