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  Guaranteed, it's your video drivers. : EvilDolemite
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    I'm using the latest WHQL drivers from nvidia. What else can i do? All games are patched too. : oatmela
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      Let me guess, 8800? : FushigiDenki
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        yes. Regular Oblivion with XP ran fine, for days. With Vista, not so good. :( : oatmela
        • Running Shivering Isles on Vista with my 8800GTS, no problems whatsoever. Is your computer crashing or i... : Eej
    • Try the beta drvier, http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_101.41.html Don't hate the OS, hate nvi... : Silent Jay
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  I've run Stalker and BF2 on 32 bit Vista and an 8800 GTS with the 100.65 drivers with no problems.
  
  You may have some bad memory or maybe a driver problem with your sound.

  Mar 28, 2007 10:27pm PDT
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  I've run Stalker and BF2 on 32 bit Vista and an 8800 GTS with the 100.65 drivers with no problems. You... : ndrew
  • :( I've got bling memory from Corsair and X-fi with latest drivers. i don't think there is any sha... : oatmela
  • Also running BF2 and Stalker on Vista Ultimate 32bit, 7900gt with latest nvidia drivers and latest creati... : sasowa
• Your cure : Dual booting. I would not use Vista to game right now, only as a nice desktop OS. : PlanetPerfecto
• *takes a step away from the OS* : xphil
• Event viewer show anything helpful? : Silent Jay
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  It's 100% drivers. : Tripps
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    which means I'm fucked since I am using the latest drivers. : oatmela
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      Are you on the beta drivers Silent Jay linked? : crummynz
      • i installed them, but need to reboot. I will report back. : oatmela
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        installed beta drivers, fired up game, crash to desktop in about 3 minutes. : oatmela
        • Sorry to hear that. I'm out of ideas :( : crummynz
    • latest drivers do not mean best drivers. nvidia had a regression problem with their vista sets for quite ... : mallrice
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  The OS is like what? a month old - why gamers would install it is beyond me. : abrasion
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    Because gamers like new tech? : crummynz
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      But they don't like researching their purchases first? : Sludgehead
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        lol google "vista problems"....over 21 million hits : Sludgehead
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          another 60mil to catch up to mac problems ;-) : threeup
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            Wow. That's only 5 million behind "windows xp problems". : Rice-Rocketeer
            • 1 mill for OSX problems. Macs have been around forever. : node
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      Then gamers should accept crashes. : abrasion
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        new OS shouldn't cause driver quality to take such a huge dump. especially since nvidia and ati have had ... : mallrice
        • It will all work in 6 months and this will be forgotten - but early adopters need to deal with crap : abrasion
        • Shouldn't. but they will continue to if people fucking keep encouraging developers by buying immature sof... : SpaecKow
  • Obviously expecting QC from Microsoft is out of the question. : MaJeStu
  • shackers will do anything to bitch and moan about MS. even if it's not MS's fault that ATI, Nvidia, Crea... : Korban
• Can I buy your license off you? : batkiwi
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  I don't think that Vista is the reason for these problems, but the fact that it doesn't tell you WHY thin... : bigimp
  • it just says "oblivion has stopped responding" or something. It sucks. : oatmela
• Did you have problems with oblivion on Vista? : bostrov
• Wow, Vista definitely gives me a performance hit, but nothing that bad. Your drivers are fucked. : Sgt_Boomstick
• Yep. Why I'm still waiting an intend to buy all-new hardware when I upgrade. : Vangoghs Ear
• what do you expect from EA tho. It sucks that stalker is like that tho, I was gonna pick it up =( : paravis
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13815130 : aethyr