Nvidia Vista Hotfix

[RangerXML]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html

Microsoft Windows Vista Hotfixes

Microsoft® has made available the following Windows Vista® hotfixes. NVIDIA recommends that its customers always stay up to date with the latest hotfixes from Microsoft.

The following hotfixes are recommended for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series customers running 3D applications on Microsoft Windows Vista:

1) Hotfix for GeForce customers running DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 applications:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105. This hotfix resolves abnormal application behavior such as crashes and extremely low frame rates when running some 3D applications at very high graphics settings. This issue is not limited to, but has been most commonly noticed on high-end graphics cards and the following applications: Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, Civilization IV, Company of Heroes, Half-Life 2, Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II, Supreme Commander, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas.

In order for this hotfix to be effective, GeForce customers must also update to the latest ForceWare Release 163 drivers:

Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit

2) Hotfix for SLI customers running DirectX 10 applications:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936710. This hotfix resolves occurrences of low frame rates on some DirectX 10 applications when SLI is enabled. Performance improvements will vary depending on the application and the graphics driver version.
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Donno if it works or not, reinstalled Windows XP two nights ago (now regrading it).

 

[MattWeb]

Damn, I just dumped Vista and went back to XP yesterday. I wish I had looked around a bit more now. Ohh well, the game I was having issues with isn't on that list anyways.

 

[trek554]

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1218036

 

[RangerXML]

DOH!

 

[Brian48]

Yeah, I installed this hotfix about two and a half weeks ago. It corrected the STALKER "crash to desktop" bug I had.