Nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007

[Humpty]

Nvidia graphics here and haven't had a prob on Vista as yet.

The latest juicy nugget to come out if it suggests that a lot of problems faced by the troubled operating system are actually NVIDIA's fault -- nearly 30% of logged Vista crashes were due to NVIDIA driver problems, according to a Microsoft data included in the bundle. That's some 479,326 hung systems, if you're keeping score at home, and it's in first place by a large margin -- Microsoft clocks in at number two at 17.9 percent, and ATI is fourth with 9.3 percent.

 

Now, the chart doesn't contain a ton of additional information that would help put it in context -- a specific time period in 2007 would be nice, as would and driver and OS versions -- but we've been hearing about NVIDIA issues with Vista from the start, and this seems to confirm it. So that's pressure by Intel to support incompatible chipsets, outrage by Dell and Wal-Mart that the Vista Capable program was confusing customers, Microsoft executives saying they had been "personally burnt" by Vista, and now what looks like a huge NVIDIA driver problem -- who knows what else is going to come out of this lawsuit? At this point we're half expecting a photo of Gates signing a Save XP petition.

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[CTskifreak]

Real weird...I've only heard NVIDIA improving the stability of their drivers, and making SLI work, not crashing Vista.

 

Any ways, did SP1 do a lot for people? I haven't read anything yet.

 

 

AJ

[Humpty]

Downloaded the 430 meg Vista SP1 but it wouldn't install into this "vLited" Vista Ultimate install.

 

Missing file error comes up which I suppose is to be expected after taking out loads of crap with vLite.

 

Oh well, we live and learn and I doubt if if SP1 could be of any benefit as this install is running fine and fast as is.

[hotdoge3]

I try & get more info some some at http:climarks.com > & as for sp1 you may not fit if not like you'r driver's, it not fit all so kill some antivirus like it did for XP. all so sound card's may not work. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/03/2...he-way-for-sp1/

Creative has taken active steps to address this by launching the Creative ALchemy Project for its X-Fi soundcard series*.

 

This allows you to run your favorite DirectSound3D games on Windows Vista with full hardware accelerated 3D Audio and EAX

support. The Creative ALchemy Project is still in beta and you can learn more at:

 

http://connect.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx

 

*Creative ALchemy does not support the X-Fi Xtreme Audio.

http://193.95.171.84/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.E...RSET=ws:http://

 

au.creative.com,Case=obj(9286)

www.creativehelp.com/

 

http://feeds.delicious.com/rss/badvista/badvista+vistawatch

 

http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/featu...C2574160073E4DF

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business...orZfZmbQJNJsR5g

 

http://itnews.com.au/News/72401,windows-vi...s-complain.aspx

 

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2007/09/microso...install-xp.html

 

http://www.crn.com/software/206801221

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935796

 

http://blogs.nzherald.co.nz/blog/griffins-...e/?c_id=1501198

 

It became clear soon after Vista's release, that there were serious problems when it came to

 

finding compatible software drivers to allow everything to work properly with Vista. For that,

 

Microsoft and its industry partners have a lot to answer for.

 

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr...cleID=206904736

 

The service pack will not install on computers that use peripheral device drivers that Microsoft

 

has deemed incompatible. The list includes a small set of audio and display drivers made by

 

Realtek and Intel (NSDQ: INTC), as well as drivers from several other manufacturers.

 

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr...cleID=205917537