NVIDIA's Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007

Illuminator · 03-31-2008, 09:30 AM

JFC I'm finally feeling vindicated about my situation.

Slashdot | NVIDIA's Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.../02/03/0110248

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...a-drivers.html

The last download update for my POS drivers? December 20. Fucking assfuck.

Morara · 03-31-2008, 10:04 AM

There's newer beta drivers. I think they're a few days old.

Gage · 03-31-2008, 12:35 PM

I've been using the 169.25 Omegas w/o issue since they were released.

3devious · 03-31-2008, 01:10 PM

My crashes are from EQ2 trying to allocate more than 2g of RAM in 32bit Vista.

Pinski · 03-31-2008, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by 3devious

My crashes are from EQ2 trying to allocate more than 2g of RAM in 32bit Vista.

Then add the /3GB switch to your boot.ini

Illuminator · 03-31-2008, 01:14 PM

I only had that problem when going above Balanced window-mode settings on my 20" screen. But considering that the game runs like dogshit when doing that with 2 clients...

Dantel · 03-31-2008, 01:22 PM

I've yet to have a driver issue using Vista.

Also, I made my EQ2 large address aware and that helped out a bit.

Johnathon · 03-31-2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Pinski

Then add the /3GB switch to your boot.ini

There is no boot.ini in vista.

But i'm here to fix it ;)

Brad Rutkowski's Blog : Hey where did /3GB go in Longhorn and Vista?

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Hey where did /3GB go in Longhorn and Vista?

If you did not already know there is no boot.ini in Vista/LH. So how do you set usermode space to 3GBs?
If you recall on x86 platforms there is 4GBs of addressable VM space. So by default that is split up equally. 2GBs for kernel mode and 2GBs for use mode. Now this is usually fine, but if you have a server that could use more usermode space like domain controllers, SQL servers, exchange sevrers, etc. You could really use another GB for caching of the database in user mode. Or you could suck it up and by an x64 machine.
In 2k3 you would do this by using the /3GB switch in the boot.ini which would split the VM, giving 1GB to kernel and 3GBs to user. Allowing LSASS to cache more of the database on a domain controller for example.
So how do we do this in Vista and LH? It's actually pretty simple:
BCDEDIT /Set IncreaseUserVa 3072
You do not have to specify the boot selection GUID. If you do not specify, it will modify the current selection, which is what you want to do anyways.

stryph · 03-31-2008, 06:03 PM

Buy Vista 64 bit

Morara · 04-01-2008, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Gaige

I've been using the 169.25 Omegas w/o issue since they were released.

I have 174.74 official waiting for when my 8800gt gets here today.