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We Underestimated Necessary Resources for Vista Driver Development says Nvidia - News
By Emanuel Avram
Published: April 17, 2007
Print Two months have passed since the last WHQL drivers that Nvidia released for Windows Vista and users still complain about the lack of performance and stability.
Nvidia’s Keita Iada, responsible for content development, admits the fact that Nvidia may have underestimated the resources necessary to build a good driver for Microsoft's new OS, but assures us that this problem has been rectified.
“We’ve had to balance our priorities between making sure we have proper DX10 feature-supported drivers to facilitate development of DX10 content, but also make sure that the end user will have a good experience on Vista. To some degree, I think that we may have underestimated how many resources were necessary to have a stable Vista driver off the bat. I can assure you and your readers that our first priority right now is not performance, not anything else; it is stability and all the features supported on Vista”.
Rumor is that ForceWare 158.14 are on the way. Apparently, Nvidia jumped a few version numbers forward, and is preparing to release a new driver soon, that promises fixes for most of the users known problems to date. Here's a drink to that...
Nvidia’s Keita Iada, responsible for content development, admits the fact that Nvidia may have underestimated the resources necessary to build a good driver for Microsoft's new OS, but assures us that this problem has been rectified.
“We’ve had to balance our priorities between making sure we have proper DX10 feature-supported drivers to facilitate development of DX10 content, but also make sure that the end user will have a good experience on Vista. To some degree, I think that we may have underestimated how many resources were necessary to have a stable Vista driver off the bat. I can assure you and your readers that our first priority right now is not performance, not anything else; it is stability and all the features supported on Vista”.
Rumor is that ForceWare 158.14 are on the way. Apparently, Nvidia jumped a few version numbers forward, and is preparing to release a new driver soon, that promises fixes for most of the users known problems to date. Here's a drink to that...
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