One of the primary graphics card makers Nvidia (another is ATI) is responding to the Windows Vista graphics driver backlash.

Less than a month after Windows Vista has launched for non-business users, NVidia has launched WHQL Certified drivers for GeForce 8800, GeForce 7 series, and GeForce 6 series GPUs:

For those of you that are using Windows Vista and experiencing any problems, we’ve set up a website for bug reporting – www.nvidia.com/vistaqualityassurance. Our product managers will be reviewing this information daily and will be contacting users to help resolve any issues they might be experiencing.

I took some heat from a couple commenters on YouTube telling me that my clicking frenzy problems reported Hmmcast style were the fault of the graphics card hardware, not Windows Vista. Problem is the video I showed was the default Gateway hardware (Intel Extreme) that shipped with Windows Vista Home Premium. It also happened when I tried using a brand new Nvidia card I had.

As a customer my problem is that when I buy something I expect it to work with common applications. World of Warcraft is the #1 game out there so the Microsoft Windows team should have been working closely with graphics driver companies — especially if they wanted to bring back the gaming experience as they have been saying — so that when Vista launched people like us who bought a brand new system wouldn’t have a bunch of stupid problems.

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, there shouldn’t be an error condition that pops the same message over and over again. That’s just bad coding. Some want to blame the driver programmers, but from the customer perspective, it’s not the driver programmers that get the complaint when it’s the default drivers that come with the system.

Some commenters got it and didn’t resort to ad-hominem attacks to make their point. Others that called me stupid, well, ok, then I guess myself and a lot of others that were complaining are stupid.

Hat tip to Slashgear who I’m considering removing from my RSS subscription because of those annoying intelliTXT links. People hate intelliTXT links, just look at these Jyte (see Hmm Jyte overview) claim results and clickthru to the comments:

I’ve unsubscribed from other blogs for this reason, so it’s nothing personal against Slashgear, it’s just the intelliTXT links. If you’re trying to compete against the likes of Engadget and Gizmodo when neither use intelliTXT, then you’re not making a compelling case.

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