Nvidia Drivers Caused 29% of Vista Crashes

Istik · Unread post by **Istik** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:37 pm

Recently released documents from Microsoft reveal that drivers for Nvidia PC graphics cards were the cause of roughly 29% of logged crashes in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, Ars Technica reports.
The documentation details that Nvidia drivers caused 479,000 crashes out of a total of 1,663,748 logged by Microsoft across an unspecified period in 2007. Microsoft's own drivers followed at roughly 18%. Rival video card manufacturer ATI clocked in at fourth with 9.3%, and Intel at fifth with 8.8%.

The information was found within 158 pages of internal emails made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Microsoft for their hand in alleged artificial inflation of computer prices during the 2006 holiday season.

Numerous reports of users experiencing difficulties with Nvidia drivers on Vista had surfaced at the time of its debut, leading many to label the operating system as a buggy or unstable system. The revealed statistics represent the first publicly available hard data on the root cause of Windows Vista instability.

Microsoft recently released Vista Service Pack 1, which reportedly boosts gaming performance on the platform.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51972

I can believe that. My XP system has been much more stable since changing from Nvidia to AMD.

asharin · Unread post by **asharin** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:56 am

Istik wrote:Microsoft recently released Vista Service Pack 1, which reportedly boosts gaming performance on the platform.

I can vouch for that one

Definately seeing a few FPS difference here and there.

A'Ton Sands · Unread post by **A'Ton Sands** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:07 pm

Well theres a surprise.

Istik · Unread post by **Istik** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:28 pm

Where as my Nvidia card would BSOD frequently, my ATI only resets when there is a driver issue, and even that is rare.

Do the late model Nvidia cards have a driver reset feature like the ATI do?

gelfling · Unread post by **gelfling** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:06 am

I can well believe it. I haven't had a single BSoD since I switched to ATI either *knocks on wood*

(my last Nvidia card was so bad that it was ceremoniously binned)

Parrot · Unread post by **Parrot** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:31 am

I thought women caused most of the crashes, wait that's in auto's. Opps my bad.

asharin · Unread post by **asharin** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:50 am

Funny thing is, I just switched back to nvidia, because ATI couldn't write a driver with good performance for Vista if they tried, which they don't.
No BSOD's yet

Istik · Unread post by **Istik** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:06 am

Unless you're planning on running games with DX10, i dont think having Vista is worth the 10fps average drop and the much higher memory use and annoying security features.

Alganor · Unread post by **Alganor** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:14 am

Vista is evil.

asharin · Unread post by **asharin** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:35 am

Personally I like Vista, as for the security thing, well I'm also a Linux user, so it's not as if I am not used to it

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