Vista Not Playing Nice With FPS Games

PetManimal writes "Computerworld is reporting that gamers who have installed Vista are reporting problems with first person-shooter titles such as CounterStrike, Half-Life 2, Doom 3. and F.E.A.R. (Users have compiled lists of games with Vista issues.) The complaints, which have turned up on gamers' forums, cite crashes and low frame rates. Not surprisingly, the problems relate to graphics hardware and software: 'Experts blame still-flaky software drivers, Vista's complexity, and a dearth of new video cards optimized for Vista's new rendering technology, DirectX 10. That's despite promises from Microsoft that Vista is backwards-compatible with XP's graphic engine, DirectX 9, and that it will support existing games. Meanwhile, games written to take advantage of DirectX 10 have been slow to emerge. And one Nvidia executive predicts that gamers may not routinely see games optimized for DirectX 10 until mid-2008.'"

Comments

Re:Opportunity

[benzapp]

Nothing works on vista?

Funny, I run the 64-bit version of Vista and everything I run works just fine. Oh, and my system is much faster and much more responsive.

Why don't you name one application that doesn't work. Please, don't be a loser and mention a game.

Just buy 2GB of memory and ditch your PC

[WillAffleckUW]

there is no such thing as a decent gaming PC for WinVista with less than 2GB of RAM, and a video card with at least 1GB of memory. Oh, and turn off the chrome Aero thing that sucks your system dry.

It beats

[thanksforthecrabs]

trying to find many titles to run on Linux

Re:What did you expect?

[jZnat]

the same thing happened with XP... it should be expected in any new Microsoft OS There, fixed for you. No other OS has suffered driver issues this badly except for Microsoft ones, and that's because they change their driver API more often than Linus does.