Vista - Vista64 put back in the mothball closet

I was having so many issues with my 7900GT and Vista64 that I deleted the
partitions with Vista64 on it and re-formatted the HDD so I could at least
get some good use out of it in XP. If anyone cares to do some research on
7900GT and Vista you will see many people are having major issues with it.
Garbled screens to be exact. I thought it was an issue with my CRT not
having an .inf file for Vista but it turns out it happens to people with
nice shiny and newer LCD's too. Screw this crap, I buy PC's to have fun
with and not beta test an OS and Nvidia's drivers.

On a side note, the game Bioshock gets 20fps less running under DX10 in
Vista than it does running DX9 in XP. And the graphics look exactly the
same too. Extreme-tech has the article on that malarkey if you care to read
it.

And if you do, read the discussion boards for some intelligent comments.
Meanwhile you don't have a DX10 board and virtually everyone is having some
problem with the nVidia drivers. One of the pitfalls of being an early
adopter.


"Fish" <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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For me, the best Nvidia drivers are those that come with the operating
system.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)


"John Barnes" <jbarnes@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Certainly NOT the one that is (was) on Windows Update. I don't remember
what I installed after that fiasco.


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:41:53 -0700, John Barnes wrote:
No, he means the one that is actually already in Vista.