Vista and EVGA video cards.
Posted by admin on Mar 2nd, 2007
I am a gamer. Microsoft operation systems have always been preffered by gamers. However recently when buying a new PC, I made the mistake of purchasing windows vista. I have 2 nVidia EVGA 8800's in my vista gaming rig, and the performance I've experienced is absolutely abysmal. In comparison, I run about 60 frames per second faster when playing World of Warcraft on WinXP. When playing games on vista, I constantly get blue screens and video card crashes. There are no stable drivers for my new directX10 cards for vista. I suggest microsoft does something with Nvidia to fix this problem that many of my fellow gamers are having. This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Webbased Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/enus/default.mspx?mid=5001f040e63242e3b2d176dacb91ea40&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.games
Mar 6th, 2007 at 02:21 am
They are working on getting it all resolved. Do you have the newest drivers from the NVIDIA website? They help out with some issues (fix SLI).But, NVIDIA (among many others!) have dropped the ball on the Vista drivers. I'm hoping they get it fixed asap. I've got my eye on a nice 8800, but until the drivers are good, I'm waiting. Wait too long, and ATI releases their faster model, and NVIDIA loses a sale. Dustin Harper dharper@vistarip.com vistarip.com "Corey Kerchner" <Corey Kerchner@discussions.microsoft.com>
Mar 8th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
There is not much Microsoft can do to make Nvidia update their drivers. However you as a customer of Nvidia can contact Nvidia and make your need known to them. Since you put $ in Nvidia pockets, your voice as well as other Nvidia card owners may be stronger than Microsoft's. Jupiter Jones [MVP] www3.telus.net/dandemar dtsl.org "Corey Kerchner" <Corey Kerchner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
Mar 13th, 2007 at 01:06 am
nVidia are the culprits here. MS give people / companies plenty of notice. My god I've had Vista on a PC somewhere since the first release candidate. nVidia are playing the "we don't have the cash" game which translates as one of our Directors likes to sleep with Linux manuals instead of with a woman. i.e.NVIDIA SORT YOURSELVES OUT!!!"Corey Kerchner" wrote:
Mar 14th, 2007 at 09:54 pm
I've had nightmares with the new nVidia Drivers... even my kettle has started crashing and that's nowhere near my graphics card. I've rolled back to the atinstall drivers for the moment to make sure that my whole house doesn't reboot."Dustin Harper" wrote:
Mar 16th, 2007 at 04:38 am
"Corey Kerchner" <Corey Kerchner@discussions.microsoft.com> That's amazing since World of Warcraft pretty much tops out at 60 FPS anyways, If you're going to spend that kind of jack on a system at least know what you're getting into. I'm personally running an 8800 GTX, only one however... are you having many issues with WoW in particular or other games as well? Don't cry about drivers for your DX10 card, there are WHQL drivers out and no games to take advantage of DX10... don't act like you're missing a boat that isnt there.