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Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger by amaranth on Monday December 02, 2024 @05:00PM (#42300876)
My understanding is that most of the complaints about Vista being unstable came from the nvidia driver being rather awful [1]. You were likely to either have a system that couldn't actually run Vista or have one that crashed all the time, unless you were lucky enough to have an ATI GPU.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2008-03-27-nvidia-drivers-responsib...

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Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger by justsomehnguy on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @08:43AM (#42305936)
Parent talks about GMA900 from i910 series chipset.

It wasn't fully WDDM compatible for a quite minor (overall) part, but the performance were awful anyway and lack of running in the full WDDM mode (ie Aero) also didn't help too, partly because running in Aero was faster.

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