Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
update changed that.
It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.

So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
problem could be a trick.

Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?

Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?

"Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> Hey everyone,
>
> I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> problems running some FPS games.
> Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> played
> in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> drivers
> issue?
>
> I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
>
> One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> video
> drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
>
> Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> Regards,
> Filipe

Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
update changed that.
It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.

So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
problem could be a trick.

Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?

Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?

"Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> Hey everyone,
>
> I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> problems running some FPS games.
> Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> played
> in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> drivers
> issue?
>
> I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
>
> One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> video
> drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
>
> Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> Regards,
> Filipe

Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
update changed that.
It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.

So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
problem could be a trick.

Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?

Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?

"Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> Hey everyone,
>
> I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> problems running some FPS games.
> Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> played
> in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> drivers
> issue?
>
> I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
>
> One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> video
> drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
>
> Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> Regards,
> Filipe

Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
update changed that.
It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.

So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
problem could be a trick.

Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?

Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?

"Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> Hey everyone,
>
> I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> problems running some FPS games.
> Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> played
> in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> drivers
> issue?
>
> I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
>
> One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> video
> drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
>
> Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> Regards,
> Filipe

Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
update changed that.
It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.

So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
problem could be a trick.

Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?

Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?

"Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> Hey everyone,
>
> I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> problems running some FPS games.
> Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> played
> in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> drivers
> issue?
>
> I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
>
> One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> video
> drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
>
> Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> Regards,
> Filipe

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Yes, i've made all the updates in my motherboad, all except BIOS update. My
soundcard is onboard.
I have tryed to play Quake IV and gave me the same problems. Usually the
game crashes in the beginning while Loading to the start menu.

And no, i havent tryed changing the EXE of the games to XP compatible. Can i
try to do that in Quake, CounterStrike, HF2 or even Steam?

I have red in other forums that Vista is still very "recent" for gaming.
Probably this is going on with other people.

Thanks again.
Filipe

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

>
> Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
> fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
> I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
> 7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
> the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
> update changed that.
> It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.
>
> So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
> is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
> problem could be a trick.
>
> Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
> but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?
>
> Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?
>
> "Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> > problems running some FPS games.
> > Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> > slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> > played
> > in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> > drivers
> > issue?
> >
> > I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> > the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
> >
> > One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> > CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> > video
> > drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
> >
> > Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > Filipe
>
>
>

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Yes, i've made all the updates in my motherboad, all except BIOS update. My
soundcard is onboard.
I have tryed to play Quake IV and gave me the same problems. Usually the
game crashes in the beginning while Loading to the start menu.

And no, i havent tryed changing the EXE of the games to XP compatible. Can i
try to do that in Quake, CounterStrike, HF2 or even Steam?

I have red in other forums that Vista is still very "recent" for gaming.
Probably this is going on with other people.

Thanks again.
Filipe

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

>
> Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
> fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
> I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
> 7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
> the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
> update changed that.
> It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.
>
> So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
> is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
> problem could be a trick.
>
> Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
> but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?
>
> Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?
>
> "Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> > problems running some FPS games.
> > Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> > slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> > played
> > in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> > drivers
> > issue?
> >
> > I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> > the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
> >
> > One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> > CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> > video
> > drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
> >
> > Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > Filipe
>
>
>

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Yes, i've made all the updates in my motherboad, all except BIOS update. My
soundcard is onboard.
I have tryed to play Quake IV and gave me the same problems. Usually the
game crashes in the beginning while Loading to the start menu.

And no, i havent tryed changing the EXE of the games to XP compatible. Can i
try to do that in Quake, CounterStrike, HF2 or even Steam?

I have red in other forums that Vista is still very "recent" for gaming.
Probably this is going on with other people.

Thanks again.
Filipe

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

>
> Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
> fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
> I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
> 7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
> the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
> update changed that.
> It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.
>
> So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
> is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
> problem could be a trick.
>
> Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
> but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?
>
> Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?
>
> "Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> > problems running some FPS games.
> > Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> > slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> > played
> > in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> > drivers
> > issue?
> >
> > I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> > the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
> >
> > One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> > CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> > video
> > drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
> >
> > Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > Filipe
>
>
>

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Yes, i've made all the updates in my motherboad, all except BIOS update. My
soundcard is onboard.
I have tryed to play Quake IV and gave me the same problems. Usually the
game crashes in the beginning while Loading to the start menu.

And no, i havent tryed changing the EXE of the games to XP compatible. Can i
try to do that in Quake, CounterStrike, HF2 or even Steam?

I have red in other forums that Vista is still very "recent" for gaming.
Probably this is going on with other people.

Thanks again.
Filipe

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

>
> Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
> fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
> I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
> 7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
> the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
> update changed that.
> It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.
>
> So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
> is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
> problem could be a trick.
>
> Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
> but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?
>
> Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?
>
> "Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> > problems running some FPS games.
> > Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> > slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> > played
> > in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> > drivers
> > issue?
> >
> > I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> > the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
> >
> > One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> > CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> > video
> > drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
> >
> > Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > Filipe
>
>
>

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Yes, i've made all the updates in my motherboad, all except BIOS update. My
soundcard is onboard.
I have tryed to play Quake IV and gave me the same problems. Usually the
game crashes in the beginning while Loading to the start menu.

And no, i havent tryed changing the EXE of the games to XP compatible. Can i
try to do that in Quake, CounterStrike, HF2 or even Steam?

I have red in other forums that Vista is still very "recent" for gaming.
Probably this is going on with other people.

Thanks again.
Filipe

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

>
> Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
> fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
> I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
> 7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
> the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
> update changed that.
> It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.
>
> So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
> is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
> problem could be a trick.
>
> Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
> but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?
>
> Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?
>
> "Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> > problems running some FPS games.
> > Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> > slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> > played
> > in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> > drivers
> > issue?
> >
> > I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> > the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
> >
> > One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> > CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> > video
> > drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
> >
> > Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > Filipe
>
>
>

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Yes, i've made all the updates in my motherboad, all except BIOS update. My
soundcard is onboard.
I have tryed to play Quake IV and gave me the same problems. Usually the
game crashes in the beginning while Loading to the start menu.

And no, i havent tryed changing the EXE of the games to XP compatible. Can i
try to do that in Quake, CounterStrike, HF2 or even Steam?

I have red in other forums that Vista is still very "recent" for gaming.
Probably this is going on with other people.

Thanks again.
Filipe

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

>
> Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
> fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
> I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
> 7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
> the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
> update changed that.
> It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.
>
> So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
> is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
> problem could be a trick.
>
> Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
> but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?
>
> Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?
>
> "Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> > problems running some FPS games.
> > Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> > slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> > played
> > in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> > drivers
> > issue?
> >
> > I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> > the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
> >
> > One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> > CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> > video
> > drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
> >
> > Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > Filipe
>
>
>

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Yes, i've made all the updates in my motherboad, all except BIOS update. My
soundcard is onboard.
I have tryed to play Quake IV and gave me the same problems. Usually the
game crashes in the beginning while Loading to the start menu.

And no, i havent tryed changing the EXE of the games to XP compatible. Can i
try to do that in Quake, CounterStrike, HF2 or even Steam?

I have red in other forums that Vista is still very "recent" for gaming.
Probably this is going on with other people.

Thanks again.
Filipe

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

>
> Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
> fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
> I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
> 7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
> the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
> update changed that.
> It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.
>
> So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
> is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
> problem could be a trick.
>
> Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
> but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?
>
> Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?
>
> "Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> > problems running some FPS games.
> > Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> > slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> > played
> > in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> > drivers
> > issue?
> >
> > I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> > the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
> >
> > One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> > CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> > video
> > drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
> >
> > Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > Filipe
>
>
>

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Yes, i've made all the updates in my motherboad, all except BIOS update. My
soundcard is onboard.
I have tryed to play Quake IV and gave me the same problems. Usually the
game crashes in the beginning while Loading to the start menu.

And no, i havent tryed changing the EXE of the games to XP compatible. Can i
try to do that in Quake, CounterStrike, HF2 or even Steam?

I have red in other forums that Vista is still very "recent" for gaming.
Probably this is going on with other people.

Thanks again.
Filipe

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

>
> Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
> fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
> I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
> 7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
> the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
> update changed that.
> It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.
>
> So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
> is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
> problem could be a trick.
>
> Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
> but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?
>
> Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?
>
> "Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> > problems running some FPS games.
> > Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> > slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> > played
> > in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> > drivers
> > issue?
> >
> > I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> > the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
> >
> > One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> > CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> > video
> > drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
> >
> > Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > Filipe
>
>
>

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Yes, i've made all the updates in my motherboad, all except BIOS update. My
soundcard is onboard.
I have tryed to play Quake IV and gave me the same problems. Usually the
game crashes in the beginning while Loading to the start menu.

And no, i havent tryed changing the EXE of the games to XP compatible. Can i
try to do that in Quake, CounterStrike, HF2 or even Steam?

I have red in other forums that Vista is still very "recent" for gaming.
Probably this is going on with other people.

Thanks again.
Filipe

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

>
> Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
> fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
> I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
> 7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
> the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
> update changed that.
> It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.
>
> So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
> is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
> problem could be a trick.
>
> Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
> but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?
>
> Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?
>
> "Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> > problems running some FPS games.
> > Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> > slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> > played
> > in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> > drivers
> > issue?
> >
> > I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> > the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
> >
> > One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> > CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> > video
> > drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
> >
> > Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > Filipe
>
>
>

First of all, thanks for the reply.

Yes, i've made all the updates in my motherboad, all except BIOS update. My
soundcard is onboard.
I have tryed to play Quake IV and gave me the same problems. Usually the
game crashes in the beginning while Loading to the start menu.

And no, i havent tryed changing the EXE of the games to XP compatible. Can i
try to do that in Quake, CounterStrike, HF2 or even Steam?

I have red in other forums that Vista is still very "recent" for gaming.
Probably this is going on with other people.

Thanks again.
Filipe

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote:

>
> Well, first I'll let you know that it shouldn't be doing that. I played a
> fair amount of Half-life 2 episode 1over the weekend under Vista 64 bit and
> I had played under Vista32 bit as well. I run the ATI x1900XTX and I use the
> 7.1 drivers as well. I'll have to go back and check, but I was only getting
> the drivers warning under HL2:EP1 under Vista 64. though maybe that last
> update changed that.
> It's possible valve is reading something wring with their code.
>
> So the good enws, is that everything should be working good. The bad news
> is, you seem to have something special going on and so figure out that
> problem could be a trick.
>
> Do you have any other games that are not steam related ? It should matter,
> but did you try also running the game in XP mode and run as administrator ?
>
> Did you do the usual updates of sound card and motherboard drivers ?
>
> "Filipe" <Filipe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4016AB48-7907-45F6-A876-7601CC34E739@microsoft.com...
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I installed Windows Vista 32-bit recently and seem to be having some
> > problems running some FPS games.
> > Especially Half-Life 2 and CounterStrike, when i play the games are very
> > slow and sometimes "crushes" and comes to the desktop. In Win XP i've
> > played
> > in very high resolutions very well, in Vista its much worse. Is it a
> > drivers
> > issue?
> >
> > I have a P4 at 3.0 with 2GB DDR memory, with a ASUS ATI Radeon AX800 with
> > the latest drivers of ATI (ATI Catalyst 7.1).
> >
> > One other thing, after i installed the latest ATI drivers when i run
> > CounterStrike on STEAM, it gives me an warning message saying that my
> > video
> > drivers are out of date. How? If I have the latest drivers installed?
> >
> > Hope someone can help :) Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > Filipe
>
>
>