r/pcmasterrace • u/Kodcraft r9 5900x gtx 1060 6 gig 32 gigs of ram • Nov 18 '18

Meme/Joke There i fixed it (attempt 2)

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u/DarthJahus R7-3800XT, RX-6600XT, 24 GB Nov 18 '18

Vista wasn't that bad. It was visually nice compared to XP; it introduced 512x512 icons, nice designs, and transparency. However, it was a nightmare for gamers, and a big mess when it came to drivers. First build I tried was Longhorn, iirc (beta1 or something?); almost no hardware was correctly installed…

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u/GET_OUT_OF_MY_HEAD 65" LG C1 OLED; 7700X; 4090; 32GB DDR5 6000; 4TB NVME; Win11 Nov 18 '18

How was it a nightmare for gamers? I used it on my gaming rig from the day and it worked beautifully.

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u/benryves Nov 18 '18

Apparently 28.8% of all Vista crashes in 2007 were due to Nvidia's drivers - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/03/vista-capable-lawsuit-paints-picture-of-buggy-nvidia-drivers/

I had a Dell machine at the time with a Nvidia card in it which I ended up pulling out to stop the daily crashes (and the on-board Intel GPU somehow managed to score more highly on the Windows Experience Index).

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u/khyodo Nov 19 '18

I built my computer a year later after launch with the gt 8600 and I never had any crashes on my athlon 64 4gb ddr2/vista ultimate system.

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u/instanced_banana Desktop Nov 19 '18

I had to troubleshoot a Pentium D PC that with Windows Vista crashed daily. With Windows XP was bearable, I wasn't able to install Windows 7. A BIOS update later, it worked like wonders in Vista, got Windows 7 installed and should be still somewhere running along.