MS: Nvidia Drivers Caused 29% of Vista Crashes

[Mr Paul]

Recently released documents from Microsoft reveal that drivers for Nvidia PC graphics cards were the cause of roughly 29% of logged crashes in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, Ars Technica reports.
The documentation details that Nvidia drivers caused 479,000 crashes out of a total of 1,663,748 logged by Microsoft across an unspecified period in 2007. Microsoft's own drivers followed at roughly 18%. Rival video card manufacturer ATI clocked in at fourth with 9.3%, and Intel at fifth with 8.8%.

The information was found within 158 pages of internal emails made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Microsoft for their hand in alleged artificial inflation of computer prices during the 2006 holiday season.

Numerous reports of users experiencing difficulties with Nvidia drivers on Vista had surfaced at the time of its debut, leading many to label the operating system as a buggy or unstable system. The revealed statistics represent the first publicly available hard data on the root cause of Windows Vista instability.

Microsoft recently released Vista Service Pack 1, which reportedly boosts gaming performance on the platform.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51972

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[steve258]

If you think about the desktop market share of nvidia vs. ati that's probably not a very high figure tbh. Plus parts of the 29% might be caused by failed overclocks and modded drivers...etc.

 

[eyetrip]

If you think about the desktop market share of nvidia vs. ati that's probably not a very high figure tbh. Plus parts of the 29% might be caused by failed overclocks and modded drivers...etc.

Yeah, well consider how many PC's have creative sound cards in them, but Creative doesn't even show - and we know what their drivers are like

I don't think it really matters how many products you have, you either have good drivers, or you dont

 

[helmutcheese]

There is already 2 topics in this, this makes 3.

 

[HarryPainful]

How many people use beta drivers...?

Pointless stat without the full details.

 

[Skyboat]

There's always going to be naysayers from fanboys etc, somehow want to justify their purchases by not being rubbish. I've experienced the horrible Vista support from nVidia when it comes to their graphics drivers, and it doesn't help in the slightest that their last official WHQL for their most popular 8 series range was from last December

Busy concentrating on rebranding their old chips (in part to blame ATI I admit) instead of perfecting the software to go with it, but it's doing them no favours if the rumours about R700 are true - as they are going to have a bigger fight on their hands with ATI miles ahead in the driver department.

 

[dbmzk1]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17858264