As others have said, the drivers are still in an early state (especially the
Nvidia drivers which they themselves have even said are poor), it'll take a
few months before performance gets really good in gaming on Vista.

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Byron Hinson
ActiveWin Windows Site: http://www.activewin.com


"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.....
>