I agree with everyone's opinion that drivers are a major issue here. I had a
really bad problem with gaming and believe it or not it turned out that the
problem was my Logitech mouse. The driver was conflicting with something
else causing stuttering. I obtained a new Microsoft keyboard/mouse combo
with the certified for Windows Vista symbol on it and everything seems to be
fine. Nvidia only just recently released some drivers for their chipsets so
check this as well on their website assuming you have an NVidia chipset. The
video drivers need some tweaking but that will come in time.

regards
Robert
"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.....
>