On 7/7/06, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net <jrod...@hate.spamportal.net> wrote:
In the old days when I would run windows, my video card vendor always provided two driver options: the logo certified one, and the one with fewer bugs. I'm sure the program works the same way now.
Nah, now you just get certified drivers with lots of bugs and third-party hacked ones that have fewer. The latest nVidia drivers are just brilliant: they make the C++ runtime crash. As to this whole "trusted chain" thingo, they "need" to get the output devices into the picture before it's worth finishing. I'd like to think that people wouldn't buy into it, but it's bound to have lots of marketing dollars behind it. It's already started (HD DVD/etc downscaling if you aren't using a HDCP display) even if the content providers are currently being all nicey-nicey about it. I would throw in some hate here for Nero products, except that it's really the support rather than the actual software I'm hating right now. Matt
