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Are you guys using nvidia win 8 preview drivers? I had black icons in CP until I loaded win 8 preview drivers.

Question to the NVidia GPU users - do NVidia drivers use .NET Framework (any version)?

AMD's Catalyst drivers have required a runtime for .NET Framework since the 11 series - the Windows 8 preview drivers retain this requirement.

As WinRT itself is based on the same framework, could that be why AMD drivers are more stable with .NET-based applications (including WinRT)?

I seem to have similar problems.

I have an ASUS board with Intel series 6 chipset.

I also use a Geforce 550 Ti graphics card.

I have loaded the nVidia 296.17 drivers.

I believe I am getting instability from two angles here.

First, the RAID drivers seem very unstable no matter what version I use.

I have actually reverted back to the ones that Win8 installed (8.x something) and it is a bit better.

The problems seem to get worse if the disks are under heavier access load.

What usually happens is the system will become mostly unresponsive.

I can sometimes use the currently open programs, but launching new ones fails and closing open ones fails as well.

Sometimes it is a complete lock up where only the mouse moves, but nothing is able to be manipulated.

Second, the graphics will sometimes turn pink and the driver will restart.

I believe the nVidia drivers also sometimes cause the system to lock up completely, but it could still be the Intel ones.

I really hope Intel gets some actual Windows 8 drivers released so I can rule them out.

Well it's not brand new, and it is pretty stable now and will certainly be stable by release. but at least you're not trolling.

Of course it's brand New It does borrow elements of xaml and other technologies. Its akin to the next Win32. And in my opinion its not stable but is to be expected. I don't how fast it will be compared to win32. It doesn't feel ready yet but it could when windows 8 launches.

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As far as I can remember I haven't had any Metro apps crash and certainly none that took down the whole system. That's pretty good considering that I'm not using Windows 8 drivers at the moment, as nVidia haven't released any for the GTX 680 - the Win7 drivers work perfectly though. In fact system stability has been very good overall. I only had one bluescreen and that was when I tried to install an old HD4870 with Win7 drivers, as it wasn't officially supported. It's disappointing that AMD cuts support for cards years before nVidia does.

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