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NVIDIA == support problemsNVIDIA == support problemsPosted Jul 1, 2008 1:32 UTC (Tue) by alankila (subscriber, #47141)In reply to: NVIDIA == support problems by dwheeler Parent article: Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)
While it's appalling that display driver related crashes together make about 50 % of the crashes, the number of crashes attributable to NVidia seems related to its popularity. For instance, the Steam hardware survey grants lion's share to nvidia: http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html If anyone knows a better data set, enlighten me...
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NVIDIA == support problems Posted Jul 3, 2008 19:51 UTC (Thu) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link] There are lots of market surveys for video cards, e.g.: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20071029062106... http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-1771-view-ATi-vs-Nvidia... The basic bottom line is that NVIDIA, Intel, and ATI are popular, but it's hard to say NVIDIA dominates the WHOLE market. NVIDIA is popular at the high end, Intel is popular on Intel chips (esp. laptops), and ATI is popular on AMD chips. I don't buy the argument that the large number of crashes is due primarily to NVIDIA's popularity. There are LOTS of complex devices in a modern computer. Fundamentally, if a particular driver is one of the primary causes of an OS crashing, then the driver is bad. By definition!
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