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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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  4. No NForce2 drivers by Plug · · Score: 5, Informative

    While this class action seems to be about high-end graphics cards, which I have ever expectation that NVIDIA are working hard on drivers for, it's worth pointing out that they don't intend to support the NForce/2/3 motherboards with Windows Vista drivers.

    Just upgraded a machine, network & sound works, but when I scroll in Firefox, I get choppy audio playback in Winamp; in the process of trying to figure out if it's Winamp at fault or the audio driver.

  5. Re:Can you blame them? by TheAwfulTruth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This has nothing to do with that.

    They had stable vista drivers out for their older cards for somettime. This is specifically to do with a brand new card that has such a different archetecture that they had to redo the driver from the ground up and seriously underestimated the time it would take.

    Marketing went ahead and sold the hardware as "The first vista ready video card" (DX 10 whee), engineering was not ready. It really is borderline plausible that they could be gulty of false advertising.

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  6. Re:ch-ch-ch-chaaaanges... by Meatloaf+Surprise · · Score: 5, Informative

    I went to this page http://www.nvidia.com/object/7_series_techspecs.ht ml for my video card and it says:

    Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista(TM)

    * Third-generation GPU architecture built for Windows Vista
    * Delivers best possible experience when running Windows Vista 3D graphical user interface
    * New OS supported by renowned NVIDIA® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) for maximum stability and reliability
    * NVIDIA® PureVideo(TM) technology delivers high-quality VMR pipeline for best-in-class video for Windows Vista

    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?

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

    Must be your video card.

  8. 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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  9. 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.