nvidia has something big planned?

"NVIDIA has something big coming, according to its own estimates something about the same size as SLI when it launched. It's not the introduction of the rumored Radeon HD 4870X2 killer, the 55nm G200b core. That would be a bit too weak. There is a new PhysX driver that will enable PhysX on all CUDA-capable GPUs that will launch soon, but it should arrive sooner than that. Instead, the bang comes from updated CUDA support and improved drivers.

SLI will be updated, connectivity will be updated, CUDA looks like it will go commercial, and better quality and performance overall. The last part may also include improved scaling in various SLI configurations. Whether it will have the same impact as SLI had remains to be seen. More news should follow as we approach the next Big Bang. "

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7979.html

Well Nvidia is about to piss off all GTX280 owners, thats a bit quick.

What should be done?
DX10.1
Better Vista 64 driver support(still many glitches,freezes on my 8800GTX that did not exist on my test X1900XT and now 4870)

Perhaps the Big Bang will be nothing but NVIDIA Execs doing Hari Kari as they are smoked by ATI.

I bet it's not even the shot heard across the cubicle.

... the big bang is improved drivers... thats crap and nvidia knows it...

wow if that's it, what a major let down...

unless these drivers increase performance by like 20 % W/O sacrificing quality... then its complete crap

Hey Nuke-

My sli'd 8800 GTX's have yet to founder in vista 64.

0 BSODs or the like in almost 3 months.

You running ultimate, or home premium?

Home premium

Easy to reproduce problems

-Quake 1 with winquake, poor performance when picking up items(full screen only). Come on, its QUAKE 1. With the GTX 280 drivers inf modded it works but it rez capped at 800 x 600
-City Of Heroes. Game black screens on the latest drivers(have to manually restart. i can still control winamp with my keyboard or MCE remote, its not quite frozen). The old drivers work, but randomly corrupt the entire screen(user interface stays usable) and this includes the Aero theme once you exit.
-Lord Of The Rings Online. Random full out screen corruption including interface
-Wonderland Online(its a big pile of crap, but a friend had me try it ) Solid system lock when the game forces 16 bit color on the desktop to play in a window. Its random, sometimes it starts. Modded GTX 250 drivers work fine. Fixes are set 16 bit color before playing, turn off aero, inf mod GTX 280 drivers, use ati card?
Folding @ Home GPU. Full out system freeze at random interval
Bioshock, Random system crash(seems to only happen in the first map). If the game crashes, you do not see the message it looks frozen you have to manually alt + tab to see the error.
Unreal 3, Works Great
Hellgate was ok.

I have done extensive tests on the card it self under XP and it was fine. In fact that's what it runs on how(how can i not abuse that Antec SP 2.0 450 watt power supply some more).

I think its all what you play. They work well on most new games, but less popular(City Of Heroes(they have broken this game on XP before, but fixed it in the next driver, but that was like a 6 month gap), LOTR : online) games and old games do not have good support. The drivers have been getting better, but Vista has been out long enough to iron out the bugs. I read somewhere that Nvidia's drivers did not like more then 4 gigs of ram. How much do you have?

On top of that, TV out(yes just plain old TV out for SD tv) had NO overscan(removed black around the image, same as DVD players and cable boxes do) from release until just this year.

Well its worked on XP since the say i bought it. So unless it went defective when i installed vista, then fixed it self when i placed it into a XP machine(or reboot into XP on the same machine) again, the card it self is fine. just the drivers are picky on some games.

I have no clue what it did not like, could be anything else running, but i had no problems with that card under xp with all the same software.

Its not like there are not a large number of reports around the net about this problem(different corruption and black screens) either, its not exactly isolated.

But i only played that game for a trial, and it noticed this thing happening more(i think it only happened then) with tv out on as well, you never know.

In the end my 4870 does what i want it to, so i am happy and the 8800GTX is replacing a X1900XT in an XP machine, so thats an upgrade.