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I believe it did. Are you satisfied with the software you use on a daily basis?
by laurentiurad 3y ago
I believe it did. Are you satisfied with the software you use on a daily basis?
- gtirloni 3y agoYes, much better than the kernel panics, blue screens, easily hacked servers and random crashes of the past.
- mschuster91 3y agoA lot of blue screens were caused by unstable graphics card drivers. Thank Microsoft for moving a lot of the graphics stack to userland in, I think, Vista -since then, GPU driver crashes don't take the entire system out as well.
- Felger 3y agoWDDM 1.0 (Windows Display Driver Model) introduced with Vista, indeed came with TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) function for the video adapter, enabling a soft reset when possible. A lot of BSOD were also caused by generic and low quality DRAM sticks, unstable individually (failed addresses) or becoming unstable when paired in dual channel setup, especially with 2 pairs of dual rank, dual sided sticks. Had very often this issue with Corsair Value sticks, or with a XMP (Intel spec) RAM kit used with 1/2/3th gen Ryzen, manually setup to match the 1.35V XMP profile (for DDR4). EXPO does this much better now. Diag tools like Quicktech Pro then Memtest86+ from Passmark Software and the free one were born on this 'lost era'.
- LouisSayers 3y agoYes, for the most part things work as I would expect them to. I think software has actually gotten much more user friendly to the point where for existing computer users, using a new app is usually quite intuitive. Feelings of dissatisfaction are likely due from having higher expectations.