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Nvidia Responsible for 29% of Vista Crashes
By: Jayesh Mansukhani   |   Mar 29,2008
In a recent revelation that should come to no surprise to anyone, Microsoft has released documents that show drivers for Nvidia PC graphics cards were the cause of roughly 29% of logged crashes in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system.

This story which was reported by Ars Technica, goes on to say that  Nvidia drivers caused 479,000 crashes out of a total of 1,663,748 logged by Microsoft in 2007. This was closely followed by Microsoft's own drivers followed at 18% while ATI clocked in at fourth with 9.3%, and Intel was at fifth with 8.8%.
This information came to light, when 158 pages of internal emails was made public as part of a lawsuit that is currently under-way against Microsoft. The suit contends that Microsoft was partially responsible for the rise of prices of computer hardware during the important Christmas/New year buying season of 2006.

Given the fact that Nvidia is today’s easily the world’s largest manufacturer of discrete external graphical display solutions, their figure of 29 percent should come as no surprise. I personally was a victim of this as an Nvidia user.
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Yes nvidia softwares r nt good....
anonymous @ Apr 04,2008
yea correct I never had problem wid nvidia drivers on XP....Billy s****
anonymous @ Apr 04,2008
I think M$ need to fix their OS. if OS doesn't work properly, there is nothing H/W companies can do to make it work. It seems to be their internal issue to the OS. I am not convinced on this as if Nvidia drivers don't crash on XP, how can they be made responsible for Vista? In my opinioin, Nvdia has some of the best and stable drivers.
Ronnie Glenn @ Apr 01,2008
What is the surprise here? They speak of MS drivers causing 18% of the crashes, what is the percentage due to fuzzy MS advise and instructions? I just did an install of Home Premium I got cheap but it sat here for a month as I anticipated a week to put it in and tune it up. I started with clean everything including XP Pro Install and SP3 (SP1 and SP3 were two of the easiest things I have done, go figure-is the system junk factor ever used to explain all the problems to install SP's etc) I had USB trouble from a bad EHDD, and while cute, where do I find the WOW Bill and NOW Bill. And yes Nvidia NIC software is the WORST. I do have the 8600 GT and will watch. Video does cause crashes don't know if it should or not.
Bill @ Apr 01,2008
I run a Nvidia 8600M GT on my Asus laptop & it used to crash regularly when running Halo 2 for vista until i upgraded from the Asus website. First time ever have I got BSODs from a graphics card. Strange but true.
Barry @ Mar 31,2008
markandey .. in case you forgot to read my comment .... M$ wrote its own drivers for everything .... which cased the major issues coz majority of people dont know which version of drivers are getting installed as long as something is getting installed
MaxAxe @ Mar 31,2008
Device driver and firmwares are worst written code. H/w manufactures just never spend money in writing good driver software, and thats where well designed operating system crashes.
I strongly believe in this report.
but there is another aspect, why Microsoft's all operating system straight away show BSOD when there is driver crash, cant you prevent crashing in your newer OS like vista. I hate this because starting from 98 to XP... all operating system crashes whenever there is problem in driver code. and i hate that blue screen of death.
Markandey Singh @ Mar 31,2008
But how a graphix card can cause a crash.......... I can't understand..... Pls explain
AAAAA @ Mar 31,2008
This is totally lame ... has anyone noticed how Vista starts looking for the drivers itself before even asking if one already has the drivers, it just searches and installs whatever driver it can find. version 163.xx drivers had issues with vista ... but it was fixed within 2 weeks or so. M$ is really getting ridiculous day after day
MaxAxe @ Mar 31,2008
Microsoft need to fix things at home before they blame vendors and partners. So in the next Vista patch cd are we looking at graphic cards patches as well? Ridiculous.
arjun @ Mar 30,2008
nVidia cards are better than ATi, but let's face it, Catalyst is THE BEST driver package. I think all nVidia software is messed up. Their firewall and related LAN software (which ships OE with their motherboards) is HORRIBLE. All the video drivers (nv4_disp) have a tendency to get stuck in an indefinite loop (hang). I think I have an nVidia related crash at least every week, but when i ran ATi on my laptop, there were never any problems. If the hardware was not VASTLY superior, nVidia woud be the crappiest discrete graphics manufacturer ever.
Angad @ Mar 30,2008
I Agree i have twice when i install the driver of nvidia it just crashes
Balasubramanian @ Mar 29,2008
I just don't agree. I have a laptop and a desktop powered with nVidia 8600 Graphics Card(8600M GT and 8600GT SuperClocked) and using Vista for about half year i just got a remarkable "NO CRASHES"...
MVelos @ Mar 29,2008
I dont think it was only the GPUs, because My Vista has been giving me Nvidia related problems and they are related to my Nvidia inbuilt Lan Card.(which made me waste sooo much time trying to fix btw)
Reetesh @ Mar 29,2008
I think this is the exact reason which has been finally revealed. My HP Tablet also crashed due to an upgrade of NVIDIA Drivers!!!

How can we prevent this??? Any one???
pc @ Mar 29,2008
this is shocking, now what am i supposed yo do. i was thinking of buying nvidia 8800 gts 640 mb, but i have changed my mind.
none of ur business @ Mar 29,2008
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