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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by guardian5x on Friday October 17, 2014 @03:24AM (#8469798)
Serious Question: I know that since Vista, Windows can handle graphics driver and sound card driver crashes by restarting the driver.[1] That often leads to the program to crash too, if its using 3d graphics for example, but it does not require a restart of the whole system. Does Mac OS have something similar too?

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/images/device/wddm_timeout.gif

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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by acdha on Friday October 17, 2014 @08:30AM (#8470587)
I don't believe so but since neither has crashed for me in years I haven't looked into it. You definitely can restart Bluetooth, which I've needed to do a handful of times when playing audio.
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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by feld on Friday October 17, 2014 @10:25AM (#8471106)
I'm from the Unix world. What is a "driver crash" ?
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