Hokay, i can't get farcry or hl2 smooth on my rig with Vista 32-bit, at any res :|

[dug777]

2.1Ghz tbred-b/1GB RAM/6800GS(@~Ultra)/Asus A7V8X mobo

I know it's ancient, but i'd like to squeeze a bit more out of it, happy with my older games so that's not an issue right now.

Readyboost doesn't seem to help either.

 

[Stumps]

you probably need more ram....but then again I would imagine that immature drivers could be the problem as well.

 

[BFG10K]

I would go back to XP for now. Vista's drivers are pretty bad at the moment.

 

[Sketcher]

My test unit is an HP d530

Vista RC2
2.8Ghz P4 HT
2.0GB Ram
ATI 9700 Pro (Driver: 8.31.100.321 - Dec 5, 2006)

I have to strip out the candy if running 1280x1024 but it runs smoothly at 1024x768; the biggest bottleneck here being the PCI 9700Pro. Haven't tried the new drivers yet.

The ATI Vista drivers have work fine for me. I haven't had a single hiccup w/my Vista install though everyone else I know have graphics or audio issues with their Vista runs.

My only guess as to why mine has been trouble free is that it's a business class workstation. It's likely that Microsoft made sure they wrote first the business end of their offering and will catch up with the consumer variants.

 

[aka1nas]

The Nvidia Vista drivers seem to have pretty poor performance atm. ATI's are relatively faster, unless you try OpenGL games. Hopefully things will get better in a few weeks.