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Nvidia Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Vista Drivers

Posted by Zonk on from the can't-see-anything dept.

Cocoshimmy writes "Nvidia is facing a class action lawsuit for false advertising by not providing stable working drivers for Vista. Nvidia has been accused of closing threads on Nvidia's forum and banning users that request a response from Nvidia, post that their Nvidia hardware does not work under Vista, post that Nvidia software does not work under Vista, post that Nvidia is guilty of false advertising, or threaten to sue Nvidia. Several disgruntled users have set up their own site for discussing their legal options."

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  1. Vista by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd post first, but my monitor's on the fritz. Stupid new OS.

    1. Re:Vista by SoCalChris · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd post first, but my monitor's on the fritz. Stupid new OS.
      You'll get no sympathy here if you 'upgraded' to Vista. How do you know he's not using linux with an ATI card?
  2. Just use the 'nv' driver by mhall119 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure someone can port it to Vista. Tell me again about how Windows has better hardware support than Linux.

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    1. Re:Just use the 'nv' driver by pandrijeczko · · Score: 5, Funny
      Please do not mock the Vista/Nvidia users - I can really sympathise with how they feel.

      Having done a Linux kernel upgrade today, I had to type "emerge nvidia-drivers" at the command line and wait *A WHOLE THREE MINUTES* for the drivers to download and compile the module - during that time I had *NO* 3D acceleration on my Gnome desktop.

      It was *NOT* pleasant, I can tell you!

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    2. Re:Just use the 'nv' driver by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I imagine it was still 'unpleasant' when they finally downloaded and compiled, after all, you're using Gnome

    3. Re:Just use the 'nv' driver by thrillseeker · · Score: 5, Funny

      I imagine it was still 'unpleasant' when they finally downloaded and compiled, after all, you're using Gnome

      No, this is Gnome - silly settings like "unpleasant acceleration speed" have been hidden from me.

  3. Port Linux NVidia Drivers to Vista by andy314159pi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe someone at Microsoft should work on porting the Linux nvidia drivers to Vista. The work well on Linux, so maybe the drivers can be "reverse engineered" to work with Vista.

  4. Re:ch-ch-ch-chaaaanges... by Raynor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we are blaming NVidia's treatment of their customers, not the problems themselves.

    Personally I just blame canada... i mean come on, they aren't even a real country anyways ;)

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  5. ok this seems bad enough but... by whathappenedtomonday · · Score: 4, Funny
    one of the NVidia forums moderator's suggestions that there's no reason to upgrade to Vista (link)


    At least they got this one right. That's what you get for upgrading: huge hole in your wallet, crappy OS and nvidia forum mods poking fun at you...

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  6. Re:Vista DRM helps by saskboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's that new Vista DRM feature, brought to you by the fine people at Nvidia:
    Doesn't Really Matter (DRM) technology ensures that if you have a complaint, you can't visit an Nvidia or Microsoft website to lodge it.

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  7. Re:Nothing to see here... by atezun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must be your video card.

  8. Re:ch-ch-ch-chaaaanges... by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, if I purchased this card to run on my new Vista machine, I would be pretty upset when it didn't work right. Wouldn't you?

          I dunno. One of the points says "best possible experience". I guess it depends on what that means. If this were Windows Me, I'd expect shorting out motherboard contacts randomly with soaking-wet weasels might get better performance than putting in a carefully designed graphics board.

  9. How's this for paranoia? by pandrijeczko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's all go down to our local computer stores tomorrow, stand near the Microsoft Vista display and snigger quietly to ourselves whenever a Joe Average picks up a Vista box?

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  10. Re:ch-ch-ch-chaaaanges... by tkrotchko · · Score: 5, Funny

    "* Third-generation GPU architecture built for Windows Vista "

    Just because it was built for it doesn't mean it will.

    I mean, Bruce Springsteen was born to run, but how often do you see him jogging around?

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  11. Re:Can you blame them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have two EVGA Nvidia 8800 GTX video cards with 768 megabytes of ram.

    I purchased Windows Vista Ultimate at Midnight on Monday. You need a life. Seriously.
  12. You forgot... by CrimsonScythe · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...the most obvious one:

    Dangerous, Raging Monkeyboy

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