Mike, I'm quite aware of the fact that OS and programs at hard launch have bugs and that is precisely the reason why I sometimes wait.

Furthermore, because I primarily use my rig for gaming that has an Nvidia vid card which, atm, has significant Vista driver issues, I'm not willing to go through the headache of having to download said patches and whatnot --- but thanks for the link though, much appreciated.

As a gamer, I am looking forward to what DirectX 10 has to offer but you know as well as I do, that there aren't, as yet, games that support this, save for a few, and it'll be sometime late in the year perhaps when more developers will take DirectX 10 into account.

One such DX 10 game I'm looking forward to is Crysis however! All you FPS lovers out there, you know who you are (BPanther, for one); from the developers of Farcry this is one title to look out for! Now was it March or April?.... darn, offhand, I can't remember.....

I'm not having any problems with my Nvidia card, but you are right - a lot of people are. That's Nvidia's fault. False advertising for one.

The thing is, I'm looking to upgrade to PCI-Express in the next 2 or 3 months with a SLI set-up and according to an interview I read at FiringSquad, certified drivers should be released for the 8800 series cards by months end, ie. February.

Edited February 9, 200719 yr by jedicri

Well, I just got all my questions answered, I downloaded Vista, paid them for it and it crashed my system, had to reinstall everything again. I'm going to wait a little while until Vista has been worked out of bugs and everything. This is the second time my computer crashed and the first time, took dell a month and a-half to get my laptop up and running again.

Here in the UK, they are charging double that the prices in US for Vista.

I'm gonna stick with XP until I see everyone is happy with it for awhile maybe 6 months or so.

One such DX 10 game I'm looking forward to is Crysis however! All you FPS lovers out there, you know who you are (BPanther, for one); from the developers of Farcry this is one title to look out for! Now was it March or April?.... darn, offhand, I can't remember.....

Thanks Jedicri for pointing that out. I didn't know about this game. I'm still complaining about not having the other Far Cry stuff for PC ... but this is looking great!

According to Gamespot, the game should be released at Q3 2007.

As far as Vista goes... never paid for Windows... not starting now!

BPanther