Comments on: Valve Survey Shows Slow Vista Uptake By Gamers http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/06/05/valve-survey-shows-slow-vista-uptake-by-gamers/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:10:37 -0500 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/06/05/valve-survey-shows-slow-vista-uptake-by-gamers/comment-page-1/#comment-245332 Mark Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:53:27 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/06/05/valve-survey-shows-slow-vista-uptake-by-gamers/#comment-245332 I can't live without my widescreen. It's so purdy. But I've got a regular 19" as well (dual screenin' since 2007) As for Vista..I've got it to. At first I liked it, but if you're a gamer and you have an nVidia video card....might as well just throw your computer off a bridge. nVidia's driver hardly support Vista, and support even less Games on Vista. I've got an 8600GTS with the latest drivers, but when I play games I get a "so and so driver has ended but restarted" (forgot the name of the file...nvk...something or other). Which results in your game freezing and monitor going black for a few seconds, and then returning. Now you may think it's not that bad, but it is when it happens every minute or so, and you're trying to attack something/someone when it happens. So this is why I think gamers don't want to jump to Vista quite yet, but nVidia hardly supports it. (don't know about ATI) I can’t live without my widescreen. It’s so purdy. But I’ve got a regular 19″ as well (dual screenin’ since 2007)

As for Vista..I’ve got it to. At first I liked it, but if you’re a gamer and you have an nVidia video card….might as well just throw your computer off a bridge. nVidia’s driver hardly support Vista, and support even less Games on Vista.

I’ve got an 8600GTS with the latest drivers, but when I play games I get a “so and so driver has ended but restarted” (forgot the name of the file…nvk…something or other). Which results in your game freezing and monitor going black for a few seconds, and then returning.

Now you may think it’s not that bad, but it is when it happens every minute or so, and you’re trying to attack something/someone when it happens. So this is why I think gamers don’t want to jump to Vista quite yet, but nVidia hardly supports it. (don’t know about ATI)

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