Windows Vista shows its resilience to bad drivers
So as I mentioned in a previous entry I've started using nVidia's Vista drivers instead of their XP ones on my Tablet.
This is with the new Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM), which takes advantage of Windows Vista's capabilities. One of those capabilities is running drivers in user mode instead of kernel mode, even the video driver.
In a previous operating system this crash would of brought down the whole system with a blue screen, but Windows detected the driver had stopped responding, shut down the video driver and restarted it, all within the space of about a second.
It does however mean I'm still waiting for better nVidia drivers.
Categories: Technology Tags: drivers, nvidia, windows vista
7th January 2007 00:04:03, 110 words, 516 views
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7th January 2007 00:04:03, 110 words, 516 views1 comment » 1 comment
Comment from: Xiol [Visitor]
I've run into these problems as well, except I actually got a bluescreen from it! Currently running the Windows drivers again, but their lack of OpenGL support is causing me much annoyance as I wish to get on SecondLife.
18th January 2007 @ 20:36
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