Those of you with nVidia based graphic cards (the high-end kind, Geforce 6100/7100/7300 and anything below an 8600 series card need not bother) should see about installing some hotfixes if you are running Windows Vista.

The worst case scenario is that while playing your favorite game under Vista with the latest nvidia drivers, it will crash or freeze.  If it freezes you can still access task manager and terminate the offending process with the famous ctrl+alt+delete command but sometimes you just can’t move past a certain point in a game without the display driver crashing.

Vista is good about recovering the driver after the crash but that doesn’t help much if you actually want to complete the game.

I don’t promise that this is a cure-all for every problem you might be having but nvidia does recommend installing these updates under certain scenarios, some or all may apply to your system, if it doesn’t you can still download the update but it won’t install, if it does, well, obviously it will.

Before installing the hotfixes make sure you have the very latest nvidia driver installed for your card.

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Entry was posted on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 12:23 pm under Microsoft, Tips, Vista.  Print This Post

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