Microsoft fixes SLI and CrossFire in Vista As it turned out, Nvidia/ATi were not the only guilty parties in the whole case, but Windows Vista was implicated, too. Microsoft just posted an update for both 32- and 64-bit versions, fixing issues where operating system would not pass instructions for the 2nd GPU to the driver, meaning SLI/CrossFire would effectively work as a single chip cards. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41121 |
When Vista was released in January, Microsoft just recruited millions of Beta testers who did they not have to pay, better still, these people payed Microsoft to test their beta OS!:) |
Yeah, they got to have fun with a new OS and they got a free copy of MS Vista Ultimate out of it. Sounds fine by me. :) |
Uhm. did you read my post attentively? I said AFTER it was released. Everybody who BOUGHT Vista is in my humble opinion a beta tester, and instead of MS paying us to test their OS, they charge you for it. Sounds so very not fine by me :/ |
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Regardless, it is no different then buying the latest GPU or latest motherboard/chipset. If anything Vista is benign in comparison to those users that buy the just released $500 GPU, and find they can't use it for months due to drivers not working as advertised. Or those users that find their cards aren't supported by drivers at all. :rolleyes: |
just because others do it too, doesn't make their actions right ;) the current state of Vista makes it very "Beta OS" in my book, with crippling performance being the worst offender, not talking about the application incompatibility problems |
Of course it does not make it right. But so far I don't see the problems with Vista... since you are not talking about the application issues. Some examples might be helpful... otherwise the only thing I see worth being negative about is Nvidia's (And a much lesser extent ATI's) inability to create a simple driver, regardless of OS. |
* Memory usage * Slow disk to disk copy * UAC |
Drivers and software compatibility and not just PC games. |
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