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Not just the high end cards.
I recently bought a new PC with Vista and an nVidia 7600 GS card. With the installed drivers the card wouldn't maintain any color management settings I did. Exit the nVidia control panel and restart it and the settings were the same as before the change. Otherwise the PC performed pretty well with a Windows Experience Index of 4.2 where the low score was 3D graphics.

I updated the nVidia drivers to the latest released version. The coloro management problem was resolved but re-running the Windows Experirnce Index my PC now gets a score of 4.0 and the low score has changed to Windows Aero Graphics.

Now, I'm not a gamer and I don't really need blazing fast 3D graphics capability but I'd at least expect that a driver update wouldn't trash any basic Vista graphics capability and I'd expect that all the control panel functionality would have worked correctly from the begining.

This isn't the first time I've been frustrated with nVidia. About a year ago I had to down rev drivers for a 6200 card on XP because the current version wasn't stable. Looks like to me that nVidia just can't seem to write drivers for their stuff.
Posted by: slopoke   Posted on: 04/24/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I learned a long time ago...  ye | 04/24/07
Smart thinking  John Zern | 04/24/07
Completely agree. I go one step further...  shawkins | 04/24/07
Who does?  John Zern | 04/24/07
indeed who.............  W!ke76 | 04/24/07
Very few people want Vista  voska | 04/25/07
This approach implicitly raises Vista's "minimum hardware spec"  Zogg | 04/25/07
It replaced a 1999 vintage PC  ye | 04/25/07
So in the interests of "relevance to the article"...  Zogg | 04/26/07
Probably won't upgrade the graphics.  ye | 04/26/07
I wasn't talking about upgrading the OS to Vista.  Zogg | 04/26/07
vista sp1  SO.CAL Guy | 04/25/07
Why?  ye | 04/25/07
because time moves on  SO.CAL Guy | 04/25/07
The best advice comes from...  ye | 04/26/07
like i said  SO.CAL Guy | 04/26/07
Not just the high end cards.  slopoke | 04/24/07
Mobile users have it worse!  colinbowern@... | 04/24/07
It's just this kind of  Badgered | 04/24/07
I beg to differ...  ju1ce | 04/24/07
Just goes to show ya  Badgered | 04/24/07
Video cards and chipsets  3D0G | 04/24/07
A few dollars more?  James T. Kirk | 04/24/07
I'd say both..  ju1ce | 04/24/07
This isn't the first time.  osreinstall | 04/24/07
One more thing.  slopoke | 04/24/07
Just wanted to mention issues in the past.  osreinstall | 04/24/07
M$ should be sued too  Linux Geek | 04/24/07
I wish all of them would hold the same judgement as you...  Hard Cider | 04/24/07
Message has been deleted.  John Zern | 04/24/07
Message has been deleted.  James T. Kirk | 04/25/07
Message has been deleted.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/25/07
Message has been deleted.  itanalyst | 04/25/07
Nice flame bait. Either that or you're a true idiot.  shawkins | 04/25/07
I dunno....  James T. Kirk | 04/25/07
Perhaps not your post, but your name??  shawkins | 04/25/07
Nah.... I've been using it for several years (nt)  James T. Kirk | 04/25/07
You do realize  Badgered | 04/25/07
It's no use....  James T. Kirk | 04/25/07
You really are a goofball.  osreinstall | 04/25/07
It's not often...  Dr. John | 04/26/07
Nvidia on my laptop  DonBurnett | 04/24/07
Odd. I have an Nvidia 7900GS card and Vista Ultimate...  HypnoToad72 | 04/24/07
I had a beta driver for my ATI card  John Zern | 04/24/07
Same here....  W!ke76 | 04/24/07
One Card = Fine, SLI = Beta  escapepod | 04/25/07
I can't believe ZDNet was taken in by this  bjks1@... | 04/24/07
You look stressed  Mectron | 04/24/07
Sorry, but that sounds like an apologetic crock of crap  Scrat | 04/25/07
...  xxn1927 | 04/25/07
nvidia graphic cards  mrrod | 04/25/07
there are many reasons i use vista 5 minutes per week  g_keramidas@... | 04/24/07
XPS M1710 with GO 7900 GS  W!ke76 | 04/24/07
Something interesting to ponder....  devlin_X | 04/25/07
Would this be a challenge to the specifications?  miyojim | 04/25/07
I was thinking the same thing (nt)  voska | 04/25/07
Contractual Obligations.  osreinstall | 04/25/07
To create a good driver DirectX  devlin_X | 04/25/07
I am afraid not.  osreinstall | 04/25/07
No one forced Nvidia to do anything  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/25/07
Yep, Same Way People Are Choosing To Switch Back To XP  itanalyst | 04/25/07
No one forced the consumer to  devlin_X | 04/25/07
It's called "competition" (nt)  CobraA1 | 05/03/07
What part of???  Dr. John | 04/27/07
Look on their packaging or  devlin_X | 04/28/07
Sigh  FoilFencer | 04/25/07
I have a new 8800GTX being delivered today...  BitTwiddler | 04/25/07
Make sure you have the latest drivers  CobraA1 | 05/03/07
You are all just mad because you bought vista and then upgraded.  Been_Done_Before | 04/25/07
Nvidia vs. Vista-Brings out the nuts !  danceblade@... | 04/25/07
Are you  Badgered | 04/25/07
not nvidias fault  w3nd13 | 04/26/07
Nvidia Actually the Victim?!?  i2fun@... | 04/26/07
Just the opposite  dsp1964@... | 04/26/07
ATI Doing the Same  ParrotHeadFL | 04/26/07
Finally...  ogmanx@... | 04/30/07
This was rather expected  CobraA1 | 05/03/07
My problem is not with NVidia drivers  dcunning30@... | 05/08/07
i started having network problems with one or to games  SO.CAL Guy | 05/08/07
RE: Vista users' frustrations with Nvidia come to a head  qwertyuiop999 | 03/27/09

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