Vista crashes = check your drivers.

Here's the numbers:


According to documentation on page 47 of the PDF, NVIDIA drivers were the cause of over 479,000 crashes, or just under 29 percent of all the crashes Microsoft logged. Microsoft's own drivers follow, at 17.9 percent, and the "Unknown" category takes third place at 17 percent. ATI is in fourth place (9.3 percent) and Intel in fifth place (8.83 percent).
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sorry...~64% to be exact...just using a little hyperbole :)
 
It's not much comfort if/when your system crashes and you know it's because of drivers if/when there are no working alternatives available.

You end up having a broken box and it's not going to become anything else unless viewed through true fan specticles.
 
A pie chart full of Vista crashes does not mean that Vista does an abnormally high amount of crashing. In fact, I'm going to stick by my claim that Vista x64 is the most stable OS I've ever owned. Programs can crash, drivers can even crash, but it's rare that an issue is enough to bring down the whole OS. Driver issues were much more difficult to recover from in XP.
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
Look who's back from the dead. Making just about as much sense as usual, too. Looks like I've got someone to remove from my list of fallen comrades.
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lol... The first sentance was OK.
The second is where it went to crap.

LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
A pie chart full of Vista crashes does not mean that Vista does an abnormally high amount of crashing
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That's exactly right. You could take a chart of 100 machines, pop those percentages in, and it would look the exact same.
 
you have a broken box because you put together hardware that isnt supported. Part of being an enthusiast is being an early adopter with a slew of new hardware....and working through or living with the problems that come with it.

Commodity hardware...dell, gateway, hp.....they put their hardware through enough QA that the failure rate is likely very minimal and stability likely better than most custom configurations.
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
In fact, I'm going to stick by my claim that Vista x64 is the most stable OS I've ever owned. Programs can crash, drivers can even crash, but it's rare that an issue is enough to bring down the whole OS. Driver issues were much more difficult to recover from in XP.
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I have had more crashes in my one week using Vista 64 Ultimate than I have in six years with Windows XP over four different hardware configurations. I do agree that crashes aren't as big a pain in the ass with Vista, but overall I have been having issues.
 
Serpico said:
I have had more crashes in my one week using Vista 64 Ultimate than I have in six years with Windows XP over four different hardware configurations. I do agree that crashes aren't as big a pain in the ass with Vista, but overall I have been having issues.
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The nice thing in this day and age is that if the OS BSODs, something is generally wrong with your hardware or the drivers the OS uses to talk to it.
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
Look who's back from the dead. Making just about as much sense as usual, too. Looks like I've got someone to remove from my list of fallen comrades.

A pie chart full of Vista crashes does not mean that Vista does an abnormally high amount of crashing. In fact, I'm going to stick by my claim that Vista x64 is the most stable OS I've ever owned. Programs can crash, drivers can even crash, but it's rare that an issue is enough to bring down the whole OS. Driver issues were much more difficult to recover from in XP.
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That's only really cool thing about Vista x64. The apps crash, but seems to always stay up.
 
dx2 said:
you have a broken box because you put together hardware that isnt supported. Part of being an enthusiast is being an early adopter with a slew of new hardware....and working through or living with the problems that come with it.

Commodity hardware...dell, gateway, hp.....they put their hardware through enough QA that the failure rate is likely very minimal and stability likely better than most custom configurations.
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I call someone who early adopts a system that brings nothing but problems and no performance benefits knowingly, a retard. If there was actually a reason for upgrading to Vista it would be different - but quite frankly there's not.
 
What's the point of an OS that doesn't crash when all the applications and games do? ;)
 
Everyone that seems to build new systems now don't have problems with Vista. But most that install Vista on their 1 to 3 year old systems always have problems.
 
I think a lot of crashes could be related to faulty memory. Vista has given me some issues, but mainly because of nvidia. Still love them though.
 
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