http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...t-paints-picture-of-buggy-nvidia-drivers.html
figures. 95% of all vista issues are caused by drivers.
figures. 95% of all vista issues are caused by drivers.
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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).
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...t-paints-picture-of-buggy-nvidia-drivers.html
figures. 95% of all vista issues are caused by drivers.
lol... The first sentance was OK.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.
That's exactly right. You could take a chart of 100 machines, pop those percentages in, and it would look the exact same.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.
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.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.
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.
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.
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.