I hate NVidia with a passion!!! :(

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ATI used to have the bad driver reputation back in the 5 and early 6 series a few years back, but NVidia has taken the cake and increased the frustration level further than any ATI doings in the past.

Finially I am done with them as a company. This list is endless as to what is irritating me, but three things stand out more than any other, and they all relate to DRIVERS:

1. Where are the driver updates for their 8800's? How long has it been? Every GPU has issues with some game or another, so driver updates monthly are mandatory, as well as updates for further performance improvements. ATI can manage this monthly, so why not NVidia? Where is the support? I want a driver update for an 8800 GTS, but I guess I'm SOL. They haven't made any since LAST YEAR!!!!

2. This has yet to be confirmed by me (though it is from a source at MS) - They have ceased support on NForce 4 and earlier boards for Vista. There are some initial divers dating back to at least a year ago, but thats all you get. Problems and all. I have 4x NForce boards sitting near me right now.

3. Now my biggest irk - I have an NVidia made southbridge in my system that has a timing issue with the current drivers. These current drivers where made 1.5 years ago, yet they haven't bothered to fix it? Excuse me? I finially after all this time have found a driver hack online to fix the issue. Nice. I have to use a hack to fix a driver issue.

What a crappy company. Sorry - done venting.

-S