Nvidia invites users to report Vista driver bugs

[chaminga_d]

WHQL-certified Vista drivers for Nvidia's latest graphics cards have yet to be released, but at least the company doesn't appear oblivious to building user discontent. In addition to announcing its new plans to switch to a monthly driver update schedule, the company has put up a quality assurance page (http://www.nvidia.com/object/vistaqualityassurance.html) on its website. The page contains links to Vista drivers for GeForce FX, GeForce 6, GeForce 7, and GeForce 8 graphics cards as well as nForce4, nForce 500, and nForce 600 series chipsets. More importantly, there's also a bug report page where Vista users can let Nvidia know about driver problems. Nvidia says its product managers will review bug reports daily and even contact users to help resolve issues.

[Anusha]

Hmm....I posted this in the evening :)

[chaminga_d]

It is just a positive PR spin on "public" beta-testing.

I suspect the problem is that Nvidia's driver division has been severely overstretched in the past year. They had to develop and test stable drivers for 8800 family in W2K/XP, resolve problems with Nforce i680 while trying to do a complete rewrite and certification for their entire library in order to work in Vista.

I suppose it is the price to pay when you try to rush products out the window and bleeding edge crowd sucks them up while forgetting the fact that the bleeding edge has its name for a reason.