Try that and see if they have the driver to cure your misery. My personal take is Microsoft and the graphic card vendors should be ashamed. New launch, long beta period lead-up and this crap on consumers. Grrrr. Good to see that some solutions are starting to appear however.

The default for Windows Vista is to use it’s own, built-in video drivers… which include nVidia drivers. These drivers are bundled with the OS and come from Microsoft… the nVidia drivers from nVidia.com don’t work (or didn’t the last time I installed Vista’s RTM product). This means that it IS INDEED a Vista/Microsoft problem.

Also, I’ve been running Vista for about a month now (yes, I got the pre-release software and “RTM” = “released to manufacturing” so don’t go thinking I’m using a beta build or anything). When I come back to my PC it constantly alerts me to programs that “stopped working” and gives me an option to “get more info” that just basically says that a program mysteriously quit working (while my computer was idle).

It’s funny when it gives “Host processes for Win32 stopped working” errors and “Task Manager stopped working” (even when it wasn’t open) and “Error reporting stopped working”. Generally you just click “OK” to get back to a working screen, but my question is #1) Why did it stop working and #2) Why are you notifying me now when you didn’t notify me in WinXP and no one complained.

Anyway, Vista is definitely thumbs down for me too. I was hopeful but not any more. In a Vista promo session they (read, Microsoft’s OWN Developers) even stated very bluntly “Vista Breaks Things” in big bold letters on the powerpoint slide show (MSDN Dev Connections in Vegas in November 06). Hilarious!

sorry… tear to my eye. at how stupid Vista is.

The thing is, that when you upgrade an existing computer to a new OS, the responsibility is actually on YOU to ensure that drivers are available for your hardware before installing the OS.

However when you buy machine with the OS installed then its purchased with the expectation that it works. In this case it’s Gateways or who ever, fault for selling a products advertised as working and it doesn’t.

The issue with the Nvidia thing was that the newer cards were sold as being Direct x 10 compatible and optimized, which they obviously aren’t.

Here’s hoping you find a driver for your touch pad!

Don’t OS creators possibly notify hardware companies of whats coming out, and maybe clue them in on some of the changes involved so they can work together? Or is this just a case of the video card manufacturer dropping the ball?

I’m a bit curious about this because I upgraded my Dell laptop to Vista. My touch pad still doesn’t operate since the upgrade.

A single window with an error count and log makes a lot more sense. A smarter OS would identify this happening and capture all the windows into one with a count, understand?

I can see if I upgraded Vista having these problems, but this is a brand new machine with Vista Home Premium installed. Total BS.

It’s too monumental a task for and OS company to create drivers for all the hardware that might possibly run on it. Also, even though the developers of the OS are familiar with the OS code , most only know the code of the section the work on intimately.

The hardware company, however, know their hardware better than the OS developers ever could, and only have to writer drivers that communicate with the OS. That puts them in a far stronger position to write the best drivers.