MICROSOFT: Nvidia Drivers Caused 29% of Vista Crashes

Article Date: March 28/2008"MS: Nvidia Drivers Caused 29% of Vista Crashesby Aaron Linde Mar 28, 2008 2:35pm CST tags: Nvidia, Microsoft, Windows Vista 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."Here is the link to this March 28/2008 article plus the 68 comments that followed.http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=51972Q6600 quad-core overclocked from 2.4ghz to 3.6 ghzASUS P5K-E/WiFi-AP MotherboardCooler Master Case w/ ThermalRight Ultra-120 eXtreme cooler4 gigs of Apacer Ram w/ heatsinksBFG 9800GX2 video cardTrackIR PRO 4.0Full size home built flight sim cockpit (3 monitor display)XP Professional SP2FSX SP1 - UTX-Canada - GEN-X enhanced Canada - ActiveSky-XWith all settings in FSX to MAX, it runs consistently smooth at 40fps over major cities/airports. NO BLURRIES !!!