Yes, after owning 6 of their cards in the last 4 years, I have finally had enough.
Nvidia almost tricked me with their latest drivers, but I quickly learned better. Now, my most-played video game, Battlefield 2142, is completely unplayable in either XP pro or Vista X64.
Vista still BSODs about once every 5 minutes, and XP makes Battlefield 2142 even worse. Immediately in game everything is yellow and the sound is jumpy. When I exit back to the desktop windows is stuck at 800x600 with 4-bit color, requiring a reboot. This is absolutely pathetic. I am not sure why I continue to buy Nvidia cards, but this is the final issue for me. My FX5600 lasted a year, my 7800GT had the fan stuck on 100%, sounding like a squirrel caught in a jet engine, my first two 7900GT's artifacted in most games, and my 8800GTS can only run benchmarks without huge driver-related errors.
I should have learned from when I was a kid and always bought Sega products because they always came out first. Now I am understanding that waiting a few months for a better product is the smart thing to do.
Who else is at their wit's end.
EDIT: Please read through the whole thread if you are going to post. I don't want to have to slap you around because you read the first post, skipped to page XX, and then said something that has already been blown out of the water or is completely asinine
Nvidia almost tricked me with their latest drivers, but I quickly learned better. Now, my most-played video game, Battlefield 2142, is completely unplayable in either XP pro or Vista X64.
Vista still BSODs about once every 5 minutes, and XP makes Battlefield 2142 even worse. Immediately in game everything is yellow and the sound is jumpy. When I exit back to the desktop windows is stuck at 800x600 with 4-bit color, requiring a reboot. This is absolutely pathetic. I am not sure why I continue to buy Nvidia cards, but this is the final issue for me. My FX5600 lasted a year, my 7800GT had the fan stuck on 100%, sounding like a squirrel caught in a jet engine, my first two 7900GT's artifacted in most games, and my 8800GTS can only run benchmarks without huge driver-related errors.
I should have learned from when I was a kid and always bought Sega products because they always came out first. Now I am understanding that waiting a few months for a better product is the smart thing to do.
Who else is at their wit's end.
EDIT: Please read through the whole thread if you are going to post. I don't want to have to slap you around because you read the first post, skipped to page XX, and then said something that has already been blown out of the water or is completely asinine