Here’s a news bit from Ed Bott over at ZDNet. There some good news and bad news for Vista users running with an Nvidia card. Good news, there’s a new set of drivers for you released around last month. Bad news, there’s still a chockfull of issues that you have to deal with in Vista. And check out the 10 full pages of it (PDF).

Reading that 49 page PDF just made my head swirl with all those issues. A good lot had the word “corrupt” (or some variation of it) which just doesn’t spell good news to users.

Ed Bott even shares his experience with Nvidia and Vista:

This issue has bit me repeatedly on my main desktop system, which has been running with an Nvidia 7600 GS card for the past few months. After going into sleep mode the system fails to resume; the only solution is a reset. It doesn’t happen every time, but it’s often enough that I have been forced to disable sleep mode on this Nvidia-equipped system. (And it’s not a new bug, either. I’ve found reports of this issue on Nvidia’s own customer support forums back in February, just days after Vista was officially released.)

And he reports to have none of these issues when using an ATI card:

The difference is night and day. Sleep works perfectly again. I can switch effortlessly between Media Center and the Windows desktop on the HDTV, and the full desktop is visible.

ATI cards have a relatively shorter list of issues and it seems that they’re working just fine with Vista. That’s probably why I haven’t experienced some of those issues that many have been complaining about. My laptop’s running on an ATI card.

Nvidia users, don’t jump to Vista just yet! And you have to wonder why they say it’s good for Vista. Marketing…