01-28-2010, 11:42 PM
I think I'll say it right here, even for those of you who have it running just fine.
Vista sucks.
In short, after seeing the new shiny Nvidia ForceWare 196.21 drivers officially released today, I was tempted, as always, to update it. Well, a click here, a click there, and I ran into problems extremely quickly. The first and foremost being the fact that my computer is stuck in an endless shutdown sequence, but never really shuts off. A simple search reveals that the primary cause is a... faulty driver. No surprise.
This hasn't been the first time this happened to me, but the previous encounters I simply gave up and used a System Restore. But after looking at Vista's ntblog.txt (which documents all startup services upon booting and shows whether or not they loaded), it would seem that the problem had persisted long before then (hint: 90% of my services failed to load upon startup, including my video drivers).
So, I lost it. I'm flipping Vista the bird and going back to XP. Good riddance. It was very painful to manually remove every single one of my games and utilities, but, hey, that's why we have flash drives! The most important of my most valued digitally downloaded games (and the heRO installer), the music I bought from iTunes, and my save files (Mass Effect 2!) have been safely stored in my 15 GB FD. But until then, I won't start reformatting (OMG! *dun dun dun*) until tomorrow.
Indefinite hiatus until... whenever. See you until then.
EDIT (for those who are starting on Page 1):
Well, after considering it for about 10 seconds, I've decided to quit heRO. It's gotten to burn-out phase for me and I'm going to go wait the standard 3 months-1 year waiting time and then get back into it. Until then, I'll go play something else since RO seems a bit too bland for me right now.
I'll still pop into forums every now and then, of course.
Vista sucks.
In short, after seeing the new shiny Nvidia ForceWare 196.21 drivers officially released today, I was tempted, as always, to update it. Well, a click here, a click there, and I ran into problems extremely quickly. The first and foremost being the fact that my computer is stuck in an endless shutdown sequence, but never really shuts off. A simple search reveals that the primary cause is a... faulty driver. No surprise.
This hasn't been the first time this happened to me, but the previous encounters I simply gave up and used a System Restore. But after looking at Vista's ntblog.txt (which documents all startup services upon booting and shows whether or not they loaded), it would seem that the problem had persisted long before then (hint: 90% of my services failed to load upon startup, including my video drivers).
So, I lost it. I'm flipping Vista the bird and going back to XP. Good riddance. It was very painful to manually remove every single one of my games and utilities, but, hey, that's why we have flash drives! The most important of my most valued digitally downloaded games (and the heRO installer), the music I bought from iTunes, and my save files (Mass Effect 2!) have been safely stored in my 15 GB FD. But until then, I won't start reformatting (OMG! *dun dun dun*) until tomorrow.
EDIT (for those who are starting on Page 1):
Well, after considering it for about 10 seconds, I've decided to quit heRO. It's gotten to burn-out phase for me and I'm going to go wait the standard 3 months-1 year waiting time and then get back into it. Until then, I'll go play something else since RO seems a bit too bland for me right now.
I'll still pop into forums every now and then, of course.