Real world stability on Vista

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.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../03/28/0326209

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.

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" <> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../03/28/0326209
>
> 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.

PNutts wrote:
> 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.
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../03/28/0326209
>
> 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

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" <> 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.
>
>

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

"PNutts" wrote:

> 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.
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../03/28/0326209
>
> 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.