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zekrahminator Jan 6, 2007 02:40 AM

Vista drivers: coding them is harder than it sounds
 
Both AMD and NVIDIA are having trouble making good Vista compatible drivers for their graphics cards. The main problems lie in multi-GPU support. While both companies will certainly have a driver for Vista x86 by January 30th, it will be harder to support than the XP version. NVIDIA has also hinted that they will work on an x64 driver after making an x86 driver, instead of doing both at once.

Source: The Inquirer

EastCoasthandle Jan 6, 2007 02:51 AM

No surprise there. I also will not be surprise when it's finally made yield low frame rates. Wait and see for yourself!

WarEagleAU Jan 6, 2007 12:50 PM

YEah, M$ loves to make shit harder and harder for companies. I swear, they must be retarded

Zubasa Jan 6, 2007 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by WarEagleAU (Post 228639)
YEah, M$ loves to make shit harder and harder for companies. I swear, they must be retarded

Retarded as they are, M$ is making off some big bucks off the smart guys :respect:

overcast Jan 6, 2007 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by WarEagleAU (Post 228639)
YEah, M$ loves to make shit harder and harder for companies. I swear, they must be retarded

What exactly would lead you to that? They've created some of the easiest, most innovative interfaces and apis to deal with. DirectX? Xbox? All of the Visual programming languages? All of your posts on this forum have exactly zero basis.

Mad-Matt Jan 6, 2007 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by zekrahminator (Post 228070)
NVIDIA has also hinted that they will work on an x64 driver after making an x86 driver, instead of doing both at once.]

This surly means it will take even longer for nvidia cards to get whql certified drivers for vista due to the requirement of supporting both x86/x64 in order to meet whql certifications.


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