Well, don't go blaming Vista just yet. You nVidia card is most likely the
problem, well actualy the drivers. Heck there is even a guy talking about a
lawsuit because nVidia as been so slow to get out vista supported drivers.

I've played 3-4 hours of BF2142 straight with no sluggish problems. In fact
last night, I got my 8 knife kills under vista. I also play FEAr and FEAR XP
and based on the benchmarks, FEAR under vista is only about 10-15 fps slower
than under XP. Same for Doom3 and Half-Life2. My 3dmark06 score is with 50
points of my XP score.

So overall, Vista is on par enough with XP, that's almost a wash. At this
point, it all boils down to drivers. You might check out www.guru3d.com and
try some of those nvidia drivers that are considered beta status.

When you talk about different color verticle lines that often is a sign that
the video card is overheating or is being overclocked too much. Obviously if
you are doing either of those, you might try not overclocking.

You might have made the jump too soon to vista, but with the next 2-3
months, I'm sure the drivers will smooth out and it will be happen gaming
for all.

"Cristian" <Cristian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D5112C36-DEFB-405B-BA04-0DFE53DEF3E1@microsoft.com...
> Hi there, I currently bought windows vista home premium and I am very
> dissapointed with its performance when it comes to gaming, I currently
> installed 3 of my favorite games on my system, Battlefield 2142, Ghost
> Recon
> Advanced Warfighter and Rainbow Six Vegas.
>
> In Battlefield 2142, the game ran sluggishly but after awhile (about a day
> after) the game started displaying different color vertical lines and then
> pretty soon after that
> the game would not even run telling me that the disk was not in the drive
> (which it was).
>
> In Ghost Recon AW whenever I look into the direction of where all of the
> action is, my frame rate horribly drops to 19. I never had this problem
> with
> Xp and I had 1 gig of ram with graphics turned up and highest resolution
> possible at that time and I was doing 90-100fps anytime.
>
> In Rainbow Six Vegas I also get very low frame rates even with everything
> turned down.
>
> Will there ever be a Service Pack released so it can fix most of these
> issues with pre-Vista games? I am hoping Vista will not be a repeat of
> Windows Millenium >:(
>
> My system Specs:
>
> Gigabyte nForce570SLi-S4 socket am2 Motherboard
> 2.4ghz AMD Athlon 64x2(Dual-Core) 4600+
> Patriot 2 GIGs DDR800 Dual Channel Mode
> eVEGA GeForce 7900 GT KO 256MB
> 250 gig SATA 3.0
>
> note- everything in my computer is updated at all times, this includes
> BIOS,
> Operating system and Software Drivers. Also nothing is overclocked.....
>