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NVIDIA responsible for almost one third of Vista crashes!

Posted by Dimitrios Matsoulis on March 28, 2008

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Source: ars technica 

Poor Microsoft. You have been hammered by almost everyone about the instability of Windows Vista. But what can you do when the largest GPU supplier writes low quality driver software that causes the whole OS to crash?

NVIDIA’s G80 architecture caused many problems throughout 2007 and the pie chart above -based on Microsoft data- confirms that NVIDIA drivers were the major cause of crashes. Not that others are as good as we would expect, with heavies like Intel and ATI causing their big share of the problems. Read the rest of this entry »

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