Nvidia To Recall Every 8800 GTX/GTS Card

SlashRating^© 42 slashdottit! ^tm Bill Stubbs writes "NVIDIA has admitted to a killer bug in all GeForce 8800GTX/GTS cards, and will recall all affected cards and replace them. 'An NVIDIA engineer, who wishes to remain anonymous, has just clued us in on the whole deal. This engineer claims that while allegations of poor gaming performance are correct, the reason is not really poor drivers. Brace yourself for the truth: Right after the G80 was taped out, NVIDIA discovered a bug in the vertex shader that causes the GPU to generate slightly incorrect geometry transformation data. The difference was minimal enough to escape attention but it was significant enough to render a scene incorrectly.' The article also links to a secret website which will allow gamers to purchase Nvidia cards at cost."

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So what?

[TransEurope]

There are more earthshaking News around. Se there http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87582 (german). The Mozilla Foundation wants 1.4 Billion US$ from Microsoft because of a patent registered in 1922. :-D

Re:Whoa

[kjart]

You know, expecting real news on a news site doesn't make you stupid.

No, but not understanding it's a joke does make you stupid. Sorry.

What makes you stupid is posting lies on your news site just because it's "April's Fool's day" or something of that sort.

I know, something untrue on the internet - frankly, I'm shocked.

Re:Mod me insightful for no particular reason

[nbritton]

Yeah but can you get modded +5 troll?

God, I wish this were true...

[busydoingnothing]

I have an XFX 8800GTX and ever since I installed that sucker, I've been getting BSODs out the arse. I've already had it replaced once; no dice. I've tried all the latest drivers; no dice. I've updated the BIOS, uninstalled and reinstalled the sound card, performed voodoo magic; no dice. Something is surely messed up here. My power supply is 620W and definitely enough to handle the card. I really don't understand what the hell is going on, but it's seriously unacceptable.

Re:Actually quite lame

[mikael]

The one that got me was the Council inspectors to demand £5 'carbon offset' for barbecues

It is quite believable now in the UK, that local councils would spend millions of pounds in order to emply inspectors to wander around home owners gardens checking to see if they had a barbecue in use without a permit.