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JonWhittaker

Real world stability on Vista

Windows Vista7
The link below is to an article that describes how 28.8% of Vista crashes in

2007 were caused by NVIDIA drivers. No, that isn't a typo, that is almost one

third of all crashes. Take away NVIDIA and stability increases by an order of

magnitude. You may track the class action suit against NVIDIA. IMHO this is

huge and makes the "Vista Capable" class action suit look like sour grapes.



The article goes on to describe bad drivers, the companies that make them,

and their reluctance to update them.



tech.slashdot.org/article.pl



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Dave

Registered User

Sat Mar 29 08:50:38 PDT 2008

Re:Real world stability on Vista

That doesn't surprise me. I've had a total of maybe 5 BSOD's in the past

year, and I think they were all due to nVidia drivers. I'm currently

running ver. 169.25, installed 12/07 and haven't had one since.





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"PNutts" <pnutterfield@hotmail.com>wrote in message

Quote
The link below is to an article that describes how 28.8% of Vista crashes

in

2007 were caused by NVIDIA drivers. No, that isn't a typo, that is almost

one

third of all crashes. Take away NVIDIA and stability increases by an order

of

magnitude. You may track the class action suit against NVIDIA. IMHO this

is

huge and makes the "Vista Capable" class action suit look like sour

grapes.



The article goes on to describe bad drivers, the companies that make them,

and their reluctance to update them.



tech.slashdot.org/article.pl >tech.slashdot.org/article.pl



If you can't tell, I read /. They hate Windows more than the people in

this

group, but they do it with intelligence and humor, not crude insults.



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David

Registered User

Sat Mar 29 09:03:12 PDT 2008

Re:Real world stability on Vista

PNutts wrote:

Quote
The link below is to an article that describes how 28.8% of Vista crashes in

2007 were caused by NVIDIA drivers. No, that isn't a typo, that is almost one

third of all crashes. Take away NVIDIA and stability increases by an order of

magnitude. You may track the class action suit against NVIDIA. IMHO this is

huge and makes the "Vista Capable" class action suit look like sour grapes.



The article goes on to describe bad drivers, the companies that make them,

and their reluctance to update them.



tech.slashdot.org/article.pl >tech.slashdot.org/article.pl



If you can't tell, I read /. They hate Windows more than the people in this

group, but they do it with intelligence and humor, not crude insults.



I can't even begin to count up the wasted hours I dealt with Nvidia

driver issues on XP, when trying to get games to run properly. My wife

correctly urged me to give up making my pc and several games, play nice

together. I got a PS3 and couldn't have made a smarter move. Besides,

a game played from the comfort of my LazyBoy, on a 61" DLP is a a whole

better experience! My Vista laptop has supplanted the XP desktop

machine, and my wife has also abandoned her XP desktop, in favor of a

Vista laptop. On-board graphics on the laptops are good enough for what

we use them for, unlike my desktop which needs the best graphics card I

was willing to buy, but also a PITA with compatibility issues. Boy, am

I glad I left all those hassles behind me! :)



Dave

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Kurt

Registered User

Sat Mar 29 10:49:11 PDT 2008

Re:Real world stability on Vista

Same here, Dave. The 169.25 have worked well. I'm kind of reticent to try

some of the newer Beta drivers. I'll probably just wait till the next WHQL

release.



Kurt Herman



"Dave" <dave@beepbeep.com>wrote in message

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That doesn't surprise me. I've had a total of maybe 5 BSOD's in the past

year, and I think they were all due to nVidia drivers. I'm currently

running ver. 169.25, installed 12/07 and haven't had one since.









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kevpan815

Registered User

Sat Mar 29 23:24:00 PDT 2008

Re:Real world stability on Vista

NVIDIA Does Work Better Than ATI On Linux, However, Just FYI.



"PNutts" wrote:



Quote
The link below is to an article that describes how 28.8% of Vista crashes in

2007 were caused by NVIDIA drivers. No, that isn't a typo, that is almost one

third of all crashes. Take away NVIDIA and stability increases by an order of

magnitude. You may track the class action suit against NVIDIA. IMHO this is

huge and makes the "Vista Capable" class action suit look like sour grapes.



The article goes on to describe bad drivers, the companies that make them,

and their reluctance to update them.



tech.slashdot.org/article.pl >tech.slashdot.org/article.pl



If you can't tell, I read /. They hate Windows more than the people in this

group, but they do it with intelligence and humor, not crude insults.

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