Nvidia/Vista... bad combination!

[Donshyoku]

I am not sure what my point is other than a general warning to anyone who hasn't gone Vista yet or is thinking about it. I got Vista on the day it came out, and here a month later, I am still dealing with Nvidia's headaches.

Nvidia had access to Vista for over two years, so there is no reason for their driver problems. I can no longer play Oblivion for the driver crashes, the comptuer recovers, and spits me back into the game. It happens at regular intervals of about 15-20 seconds.

I can play DVDs without jerking out my Nvidia card and using my onboard Intel 915... the driver crashes again, over and over and over. Just to watch a twenty-two minute TV episode on DVD last night, I had to take out my card and reinstall it afterwards. Is this what that shiny new 7800GT is supposed to give me?

It is a real headache and I want anyone with an Nvidia card who is running or thinking about running Vista to comment. I have contacted EVGA, my card maker, and they have verified that these are driver issues that have yet to be addressed.

Don't say I didn't tell you! :(

[Sqwishy]

I have a 7900GT KO and i decided to try out vista about a week after it came out, and it's impossible to play any games (which is what i use windows for 80% of the time) It's slow and when it changes resolution, 20% of the time it'll decide in the middle that it doesn't really wana, and it just screws up andi get weird lines across the screen O_o If you wan't eye candy use beryl <3

[otazman]

I have Vista at home and fortunately I am running ATI which has been rock solid since the day I installed Vista. Have any of you installed the latest NVida drivers that where released less then two weeks ago 2/20/2007? Supposedly the latest release fixes a lot of the problems.

OT

[Donshyoku]

I did a fresh install of Vista yesterday and got the latest drivers from Nvidia's website. Still no Oblivion or DVD playback. Also, I installed the Command & Conquer 3 demo only to figure out that it has some sort of DirectX problem (can't find D3D9, which should be somewhere in there with D3D10). This sucks.

[otazman]

Thanks for the update I was wondering if NVIDIA had better drivers, obviously not. Its ridiculous that 3 months later they still don't have drivers. I am buying a new video card shortly and it won't be NVIDIA.

As for the Directx9 file D3D9 take the error message of the file you can't find and search Google for it. I had the same problem found the file on-line and placed it into the \Windows\system32 directory.

OT

[uNmentaLogic]

I am not sure what my point is other than a general warning to anyone who hasn't gone Vista yet or is thinking about it. I got Vista on the day it came out, and here a month later, I am still dealing with Nvidia's headaches.

Nvidia had access to Vista for over two years, so there is no reason for their driver problems. I can no longer play Oblivion for the driver crashes, the comptuer recovers, and spits me back into the game. It happens at regular intervals of about 15-20 seconds.

I can play DVDs without jerking out my Nvidia card and using my onboard Intel 915... the driver crashes again, over and over and over. Just to watch a twenty-two minute TV episode on DVD last night, I had to take out my card and reinstall it afterwards. Is this what that shiny new 7800GT is supposed to give me?

It is a real headache and I want anyone with an Nvidia card who is running or thinking about running Vista to comment. I have contacted EVGA, my card maker, and they have verified that these are driver issues that have yet to be addressed.

Don't say I didn't tell you! :(




I have a 7800GT and I am using the 100.65 drivers and I am not having one bit of trouble with the drivers at all. Dvds run fine and oblivion while a little ragged runs fine and no problems at all (I'm guessing the performance will improve as nvidia get the hang of the new way of doing things.)

My guess is there is an incompatibility or conflict with other components in your computer, more so than the drivers themselves. The fact that you have your onboard vid card enabled would probably add to the problem rather than help it.

My hardware:
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI Motherboard
Gigabyte GV-NX78T256V-B 7800GT

[Donshyoku]

I think the DVD problem may not be an Nvidia issue. The only DVDs I have watched for the last few weeks are my Scrubs episodes. They lock up like crazy, but I popped in Constantine last night and watched a good portion of it without a hiccup. I've never really heard of a specific DVD not working in the drive, but for some reason, I think it may just be that batch of Scrubs DVDs.

Even with the new drivers, Oblivion is freezing. I am going to reinstall it and then try it in WinXP-compatibility mode. Anyone want to try Command and Conquer 3 demo for me?

[hobieone]

it not nvidia fault it microsofts if you do research you'll know that both ati and nvidia are sueing ms due to ms refuses to approve or support thier unified drivers so vista runs them in a degraded mode and with dx 9 features only. the issue ms wants nvidia and ati to drop thier unified drivers sying that unified drivers will lead t software piracy how you got me! and the graphics card companies which also wants ms to prove this to them. that it even remotely possible. it esentially turned into a copntrol struggle between ms and everyone else that wont bend to thier level

[Donshyoku]

That's interesting. I heard that some people were upset about the WDDM interface, but I didn't know it had blown out into a lawsuit.

Link?