I officially hate nvidia's vista driver team...

[Piuc2020]

I swear if I see one of those guys I'll maul them down like a crazy bear...

They have had 4 months to create Vista RTM drivers and they sure as hell have the money and motivation to... why can't they create something usable.

So today while messing around with my digital vibrance and gamma colors I accidentally changed image sharpening (I was trying to scroll but apparently nvidia thought it was funny linking the mouse scroll wheel to the sliders) and it was set to 100%, unable to change it back (the lsider showed 0% but the screen was horribly sharp looking still) I decided to restart, same deal, the slider went back down to 0% but now Image Sharpening stuck to 4%... and its very annoying looking (and its resetting my Gamma to 9+ and I like it at 6+)

I'm using 97.46 but hopefully 100.59 beta will change this annoying problem. Damn it nvidia.

Anyone knows how to fix this?

 

[broly8877]

Well, good thing that's official now

Yeah, I'm also VERY disappointed in their driver releases thus far, they're beta, missing so many features, and to top it off, the performance is sub-par.

Anyway, I have no idea, but I'd jump straight to 100's now, they're a big improvement from what I can tell.

 

[Piuc2020]

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t26556.html

There is a fix for anyone interested. The image is still not looking quite right (some other setting besides sharpening must have messed up) but at least text is no longer looking bad.

Well, pulled a few hairs with this one but damn, I'm glad I finally fixed it.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Looks like nvidia sh1ts all over their fans.

 

[rxblitzrx]

The beta 100's suck arse too. So bad that I just switched back to XP until all this dumb driver issue crap gets resolved. I'm waiting until March to reinstall.

 

[13Gigatons]

This is why it's a bad idea to upgrade your OS when it's first release. This is the same thing that happened with XP.

 

[tcsenter]

Ahhh...the joys of early adoption.

I personally want to thank the peeps who get all those early bugs in a new OS (and third-party drivers) discovered before folks like me decide things are refined enough to take the plunge about one year or so after release.

Then my experience is smooth as silk and I think, 'Wow - this thing rocks!'

 

[George Powell]

One of the many reasons Vista will not be on my computer until I need it for Crysis, Alan Wake etc.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: rxblitzrx
The beta 100's suck arse too. So bad that I just switched back to XP until all this dumb driver issue crap gets resolved. I'm waiting until March to reinstall.

I have no problems at all with vista home premium and the nvida beta drivers.

No crashes, no lockups, good performance, etc. I've played command and conquer series, quake 4, halflife, and world of warcraft.

No issues at all.

 

[Quinton McLeod]

I've been telling people on this forum since the dawn of time to WAIT for Vista. There are A LOT of things not working on it. This would include iPods with iTunes (iTunes corrupts data on your iPod on Vista).
Wait 6 months until everything has all ironed out. Once it has, then make the jump.

 

[stash]

This would include iPods with iTunes (iTunes corrupts data on your iPod on Vista).

No, it doesn't.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
I've been telling people on this forum since the dawn of time to WAIT for Vista. There are A LOT of things not working on it. This would include iPods with iTunes (iTunes corrupts data on your iPod on Vista).
Wait 6 months until everything has all ironed out. Once it has, then make the jump.

Name something else that is not working for you. While I agree that Vista is not ready for business' it is just fine for home users. A small glitch with iTunes is not that big of a deal. Besides, you should just run a Mac since their production is so heavily controlled that they work all of the time without fuss.

 

[Piuc2020]

iTunes doesn't corrupt data in iPods on Vista , the only problems iTunes has is that it opens very slowly and sometimes it causes audio to die (for the whole system) when you pause a song until you reset the sound somehow. (a good workaround is to use the mixer to kill iTunes's audio instead of pausing songs)

 

[ObscureCaucasian]

Originally posted by: InlineFive

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
I've been telling people on this forum since the dawn of time to WAIT for Vista. There are A LOT of things not working on it. This would include iPods with iTunes (iTunes corrupts data on your iPod on Vista).
Wait 6 months until everything has all ironed out. Once it has, then make the jump.

Name something else that is not working for you. While I agree that Vista is not ready for business' it is just fine for home users. A small glitch with iTunes is not that big of a deal. Besides, you should just run a Mac since their production is so heavily controlled that they work all of the time without fuss.

Then the only thing that would work is the iPod hahahahaha


Sorry, had to.

 

[slirp]

nVidia totally dropped the ball on this one. ATI showed some of the best support I've seen through the Vista release. nVidia put on a show of how not to drum up repeat business.

As for apps not working under vista try to get Nero working, I haven't been able to burn a CD on my main rig for 2 months now .

 

[LintMan]

From what I read, part of the driver situation is that the driver team is swamped by the proliferation of drivers necessary for the nvida product line with the convergence of the 8800 and Vista:

- The 8800 series needs separate drivers than its 6xxx/7xxx generation boards, with support for both XP and Vista (ie: 4 variants)
- Vista requires separate driver support for DirectX 9.0L and DirectX 10.0 (ie: 2 variants)
- Vista requires both 32-bit and 64-bit driver versions for WHQL driver certification (ie: 2 variants)

That's a lot of combos to debug and test, before you even factor in SLI support for all those.

 

[A1CSpence]

Screw the 8800 series, and screw SLI, and screw 64 bit. Get it working for the majority of single card users first, then satisfy the niche markets.

 

[skriefal]

Nero? I have Nero 7 Ultimate installed under Vista RTM. I've only burned a few discs with it (usually use the burner in my desktop), but didn't have any problems.

 

[gsellis]

I agree that nVidia has no good excuses. They were sponsors of WinHEC 2004 (maybe others, but I can look at my backpack and see the label). They have been in the thick of Longhorn since 2003 at least. Dang, even ATI, err AMD, err DAAMIT has the drivers for the 600 series built into the latest load and the card is not even ready. I sure hope this is not another hardware problem that they will refuse to admit to (a la 6800).