It is NOT just hardware. I built myself a quad-core with an 8800 Ultra and put Ultimate x64 on it. I was getting so many crashes in games that I almost replaced my memory, sound card (X-Fi), and video card (in that order) - not only do the nVidia drivers crash when the Ultra is put under ANY kind of load (read: only being able to game at 1024x768 on a 1920x1200 display SUCKS), but the X-Fi drivers can not switch between normal line-in mic and "what you hear" recording without rebooting, AND there are severe, documented problems with having an X-Fi and 4GB+ RAM in your system.
Got fed up with it after about 2 weeks of constant problems, installed XP and I have zero reason to go back to Vista (which wouldn't even activate for a couple days after I reformatted!) - Crysis plays at 1920x1200 with the DX10 config hack at 40+ FPS - no real image quality difference, and no problems either.
Vista has REAL driver problems. Oh yeah - I had a 4-year old Dell laptop running Vista Ultimate with no problems other than the fact that it was slow, so it is drivers, not the age of the hardware you are using.
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wickedpheonix @ Mar 27th 2008 9:11PM
@ billy bob thorton
It is NOT just hardware. I built myself a quad-core with an 8800 Ultra and put Ultimate x64 on it. I was getting so many crashes in games that I almost replaced my memory, sound card (X-Fi), and video card (in that order) - not only do the nVidia drivers crash when the Ultra is put under ANY kind of load (read: only being able to game at 1024x768 on a 1920x1200 display SUCKS), but the X-Fi drivers can not switch between normal line-in mic and "what you hear" recording without rebooting, AND there are severe, documented problems with having an X-Fi and 4GB+ RAM in your system.
Got fed up with it after about 2 weeks of constant problems, installed XP and I have zero reason to go back to Vista (which wouldn't even activate for a couple days after I reformatted!) - Crysis plays at 1920x1200 with the DX10 config hack at 40+ FPS - no real image quality difference, and no problems either.
Vista has REAL driver problems. Oh yeah - I had a 4-year old Dell laptop running Vista Ultimate with no problems other than the fact that it was slow, so it is drivers, not the age of the hardware you are using.