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:Why?

[MBrichacek]

This is exactly why I always wait at least 6 months before installing a new operating system. Usually by then quite a bit of the bugs, security holes, etc get worked out. I'll let someone else be a guinea pig and not me ;)

Re:Not one comment..

[GFree]

There are no comments about the Aero UI being a problem, because it's NOT. You may have noticed that when a fullscreen game is run, the desktop switches to the basic UI (2D) just before entering fullscreen. The reverse happens when quitting or alt-tabbing to the desktop. I don't know what happens when running windowed, but fullscreen definitely does not have issues with the 3D desktop running in the background because it's doesn't.

I think this will be my last comment about Vista for a while. People just don't seem to think MS might have actually done something smart for a change.