5:06 PM - Windows Vista and Drivers
I'm still having problems with some of my hardware in Vista x64. My sound card randomly drops out. Usually its after several hours of use. Today, it happened while playing World of Warcraft. Its rather difficult to play without sound. You don't know 3 people are attacking you!
Creative has not fixed the Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer driver. (well they don't call it Gamer since they don't explicitly list it anymore) Funny is that it works perfectly in linux, MidnightBSD, FreeBSD, Windows XP, and even Solaris (with OpenSound driver). Perhaps creative should hire the open sound guys to fix their driver? Actually, in all fairness the driver does not work well in amd64 versions of MidnightBSD or FreeBSD as it tends to get distorted over time during sound playback.
NVIDIA released another beta driver for the 8800 series which also supports many older cards. An older version of this driver fixed my many OpenGL issues. I'm hoping the new version improves performance a little.
There are days I think about going back to XP.
Creative has not fixed the Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer driver. (well they don't call it Gamer since they don't explicitly list it anymore) Funny is that it works perfectly in linux, MidnightBSD, FreeBSD, Windows XP, and even Solaris (with OpenSound driver). Perhaps creative should hire the open sound guys to fix their driver? Actually, in all fairness the driver does not work well in amd64 versions of MidnightBSD or FreeBSD as it tends to get distorted over time during sound playback.
NVIDIA released another beta driver for the 8800 series which also supports many older cards. An older version of this driver fixed my many OpenGL issues. I'm hoping the new version improves performance a little.
There are days I think about going back to XP.
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