I think most people here have already said they' re going to wait until Vista becomes more of a necessity before upgrading, and wisely so.

A few sites have been reviewing their experiences however, and some of it' s fairly interesting:

http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2007/01/30/Windows_Vista_review/1.aspx

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/windows_vista_performance_amd_catalyst_7.1/

http://techgage.com/article/windows_vista_gaming_performance_reports


Seems AMD-ATI and nVidia have showed their support off the bat. My only concern at the moment is that Creative have been slow to get signed drivers out there - which means 64bit Vista wont recognise discrete sound from your XFi.

Granted most of the problems will be solved eventually, and performance will only improve with better drivers. Personally, I' m still not upgrading until at least - inevitable bugs have been squashed, more dx10 gfx cards are available, more dx10 games have been made.

So maybe sometime at the end of the year I' ll go for an OEM copy of 64-bit Vista (Home Premium? or Ultimate with FMV backgrounds?) with a new gfx card and PSU...


Oops, just read this:

Addendum: An unregistered poster in our forums made this comment: " Microsoft stripped DirectSound and DirectSound 3D from Vista, meaning that there is no hardware audio in any DirectSound game. No fancy effects or even surround sound. Just plain old stereo. I don' t know why they did it, but there you have it."

I forgot to make mention of this, but its true. OpenAL is the primary sound technology used in Vista, so future games released will have this support. For games that lack this OpenAL support, companies like Creative will be releasing special drivers that will convert all DirectSound 3D to OpenAL so that it can be used appropriately. It' s clunky, but its better than nothing. This is another good reason that Vista is not the right OS for current gaming.

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