Vista - constantly crash's

it's getting kinda boring now surely those nuggets over at microsoft are aware of all the problems with vista.

since i changed over i have made it a point to make sure i only use vista compatable hardware and software but that doesn't seem to help as the only stable software that runs(without crashing) was programmed for XP now that is just silly and a software company's excuse is ''we had to rush it onto the market'' so what does that mean, did they not even test their software.

now wishing i got a mac instead as microsoft and software company's need to pull their fingers out and start doing things properly i would rather wait 6 months for a game or app that actually works than spend the money to find out that it doesn't do what it says on the box.

all this due to the fact that not one app or game designed with vista in mind will run without crashing repeatedly over and over again so what does vista do other than try to look good not alot just gives you a headache as you wonder yet again why your computer has either crashed or just shut down what seemed to be an app or game that didn't seem to have a problem when it all of a sudden ends the app or game it even closed chess on me as it encountered a problem i understand that these things do happen but not on this scale this is just to often and microsoft really need a shoe put up there rear for not addressing these issue's sooner.

i hope that there are some out their who don't have these problems and thank you for reading my one and only rant about windows vista.
thank you

Could you post details about what exactly are the error codes??

Could you check the Reliability Monitor and post what is causing the errors??

What hardware and driver versions are you running??

have you updated your drivers to the latest ones? Or are you running what was on the CD?

Is it a home built PC?? Or is it one you bought from the store?

What are you doing at the time of the crash?

Does there seem to be a certain time period that passes from startup to crash? (Heat problems...)

Sorry for all the questions - But nobody can help if you don't give us something to go on.

yep latest drivers not home built just got the damn thing eh looking into the reliabilty monitor and the actual errors
core 2 duo 2.2ghz
3 gb ram ddr 2
350gb hd
ATI radeon hd 2600xt

no distinct time period was noticed seemed quite random games it could have been after 5 min to 4 hours other apps just seems to be whenever they feel like it some shut down once others have done it 3-4 times just seems to be happening all the time

an example of fault
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Crysis.exe
Application Version: 1.1.1.5767
Application Timestamp: 471f94e3
Fault Module Name: atidxx32.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.15.10.78
Fault Module Timestamp: 4756117a
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000e8a40
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 102f
Additional Information 2: 52637ba9cde1eaa87fbb3fa514b84a0a
Additional Information 3: 0017
Additional Information 4: e06792b4561bc14258ff92862db50251

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 596781946

OK - The C0000005 means an access violation of some kind, and the culprit - atidxx32 - is the driver for your video card. So the first thing is to check ATI for a new/updated one.

doing that now don't think it's different s i only updated graphics driver last week going to check the sites of all the culprit software for fixes or updates see what i can find just curious how do you know what all those bits of info say ?

You can go to Microsoft Help and Support and look them up. You'll often need to read a few of the results to get a specific answer to a specific question, but it ain't bad...

Another thing you can do to figure stuff out is check for Problem reports: Start/Programs/Maintenance/Problem Reports Or you can search 'Problem Reports' and go straight there.

{edit} If your driver is brand new - you can remove it and reinstall to see if that fixes the problem. If that doesn't help, perhaps an earlier version works.

thanks for the help found some fixes for a few apps on their sites same with some games i wonder if most people are doing that!!

Nice! Hope it works out!