I came a cross a nice little game compatability chart over at Lanpartygods.

LINK

I've been running and supporting Vista and Office 2007 on over 15 workstations in a AD environment.  i've seen some pretty hairy issues so far, but one of the MAIN problems has been drivers.  i got BSoD's every 10 minutes or so by having a netgear WG311 in my system even without the drivers installed!

So far i haven't had problems with the newer games, but i have yet to try the oldies but goodies like UT2k4 and Halo...

BTW tib, turn that lousey UAC off in "User Accounts" in the control panel.  you'll need a restart.  everything will run default as your current user and its permissions on the local machine.

i've noticed on some games it helps if i up the priority of a running program to "Above Normal".  This can be a pain though...

Also, there's no "modded drivers" or "tweaked drivers" for ATI or Nvidia as of yet from NGO or Omega.  the newest RivaTuner works though for overclocking at least.

I've been using nTune for overclocking nvidia cards. When you install it, it integrates right into the nvidia control panel. Has some other nice features with it. It also brings back the GPU temp display(noticed it was missing from the vista drivers).

UT2k4 worked fine for me, other than a crazy mouse lag issue... which I fixed by unchecking the 'Reduce Mouse Lag' option in game(still doesn't make sense to me!). Haven't tried Halo yet.

The only "problem" I've been having as of late have mainly been just TDRs; Where my screen flickers a second, and a message comes up on my desktop(if i were to alt-tab) saying "Display driver stopped responding, but has successfully recovered."

According to nvidia, if a display driver were to fail on XP, you would get a system hang instead. You can go into the registry and change the timeout for these driver recoveries though so they don't happen as often. Other than that, I've had absolutely no issues or problems with Vista. I'm happy with it.

thanks Cuzz


As for me...I also have been running vista for about 2 weeks now. I don't care for the way it's setup but I had to see DX10 for myself personally with my 8800 (cascading waterfalls is sooo cool) Anyways, I'm able to run most games I have with no issues. When I tried to install a app like Nero, I was forced to right click and be sure to run in admin mode to instal. Thankfully however Bill Gates has been able to get the whole run in compatible OS thing worked out (I had a prob with COD2 at first, but since I changed it to run in XP SP2, it runs great now.

I also have been having some driver support. I had some issues originally installing nvidia 8800 drivers 64 bit version for my comp (running ultimate 64 edition) I was able to figure it out but I have found that driver support is near none (half of the drivers for my mobo aren't supported..but I have USB and sound and NIC so thats all I really need)

Thanks again. Now that I solved my video card driver issue, i'm sure i'm gonna have to work with it again. My brand new EVGA 8800 took a dump on me Sunday. Sad thing is (and note to the wise) is that I tried to return it to Tiger and since it's past there 30 day warrenty/return policy (32 days technically) I have to RMA the entire thing back to EVGA. I sent it UPS today (tried to send it 2 day but it turned out to be 41 bucks) I had to settle with ground which means it won't even make it to California until tuesdau next week...

I'm pretty torqued about it right now. Note the the wise, buy off Newegg. I normally do but it wasn't in stock so I had to settle for tiger. Newegg covers returns up to 1 year after your purchase no questions asked. And they'll RMA junk back to you quick. I prob will be using the laptop now for the next 2 weeks until my new 8800 comes in. What can u do. Thanks for the post Cuzz