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Vista users’ frustrations with Nvidia come to a head

I seriously cannot fathom what the FUCK is going on over at Nvidia anymore.

They must be having absolutley huge problems with their code base.

I actually sort of do know what's happening but I don't understand why ATi has been able to sort themselves out and Nvidia hasn't.

Due to the Kernel protection in Vista and the new architecture the drivers cannot be ported from XP. They have to be rewritten from scratch. That's millions and millions of lines of code right there. While the drivers they have out now do work pretty well from a performance standpoint they are still terribly Beta. No overclocking support. Sketchy software intergration (still no classic pane support :roll: ) and optimization still nowhere near final.


They've really screwed up big time. We're 7 months post Corporate release right now. Not to mention the huge Beta cycle they had to get something ready.


Whatever it is, it's a MAJOR problem they're having.


n00bs.



(T)his is a product that's critical to the user experience on Vista and if your product is degrading that, it looks bad on Microsoft's part."
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EXACTLY.
 
Maybe they just don't care about Vista since it has a relatively small user base, nobody else is exactly thrilled about upgrading to it, and most of their customers are on XP, MacOS, or Linux.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
Maybe they just don't care about Vista since it has a relatively small user base, nobody else is exactly thrilled about upgrading to it, and most of their customers are on XP, MacOS, or Linux.
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Exactly, few people have bought into all the hype about Vista. Other than a few puberty ridden fanboys, Vista isn't really getting that much attention.
 
Client division sales were "surprisingly ahead of where we thought they would come in," said Sid Parakh, an analyst at McAdams Wright Ragen.

Business division revenue, which includes sales of Office 2007, rose 34 percent to $4.83 billion.

Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said the "excellent quarter" was due to better-than-expected sales of Vista and Office. Liddell said Vista beat internal forecasts by $300 million to $400 million, and Office 2007 sales were $200 million better than expected.
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It's only been on sale to the public since the end of January.
 
Its still too early to throw the axe down on Vista as a flop though. One of my friends at Time Warner told me earlier this week that they were looking to upgrade entire call centers division wide to Vista. Microsoft and TW are business partners but this would also be a pretty major endorsement even if Vista isn't spreading like wildfire in the private sector. As for NVIDIA, that is most unfortunate but not unexpected. I can recall reading articles from MaximumPC as early as 2 or 3 years ago forecasting that both ATI and NVIDIA would both not be able to have updated archietecture and driver support for Vista before its launch date which is ironic since even Vista itself ended up not making its orginal launch date. Vendors like Dell and HP tried last quarter to exclusively offer Vista on new PC's but after overwhelming feedback from customers that they still preferred XP, began to offer it as a choice again. Still though, I'm ever the optimist. XP didn't launch perfectly nor did it hit its stride until after it had been on shelves for a bit and prices came down. Eventually the window for XP will pass and when M$ drops its tech support for it like they did with ME and possibly 2000, users will start migrating upstream.
 
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