The Queen of Overdub Kisses ([info]33mhz) wrote,
@ 2009-11-05 13:17:00
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ATI: The Way It's Meant To Collect Dust


Nvidia is only slightly better. While I had no problems finding drivers for the Nvidia Geforce GT 220, that's not necessarily a good thing. As it turns out, the latest drivers for that card, despite the release notes' boast that it would improve Fallout 3's performance by around 11%, caused frequent bluescreens that were only fixed when I rolled back the drivers. Doing so also happened to fix a less fatal bug in the original Fallout that frequently blanked the screen and would only redraw on mouse position updates.


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[info]invisiblebear
2009-11-05 10:00 pm UTC (link)
NVidia is completely responsible for a new computer of mine giving me blue screens on a regular basis for the first 8 days I've had this thing. It wasn't until Monday, on the phone with HP, that their support got me to reinstall the proper NVidia in Safe Mode that we figure out the problem. Once that got done, for the most part everything has moved swimmingly.

I was blaming Microsoft the whole time, but for once, it wasn't them---I thought Windows 7 was causing the end of the world. Instead, it's a company who haven't perfected a display driver. At least, that's my tale of woe, YMMV.

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[info]primavera
2009-11-06 12:04 am UTC (link)
Do what now?

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[info]talktooloose
2009-11-09 08:07 pm UTC (link)
I strongly recommend you go to Austin on Nov. 18 to see Owen Pallet's brilliant, fey one-man-band Final Fantasy.

Edited at 2009-11-09 08:09 pm UTC

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