NVidia has been slow on the uptake with stable drivers, they kind of slacked during the whole beta/RC phase of things.

ATI/AMD have been releasing drivers as fast as possible to ensure complete compatibility the whole time.

The Orlando Radeon team has gone through about 20 revisions of drivers in the past month alone.

ATI has always had good tech support, and I've always liked having ATI cards since about '98... before that, I thought they were crap but they've come a long way.

i dont know whats happened, but magically overnight my nvidia card is working flawlessly.

i took my vista drive out, put it back in after my xp drive hosed... and voila! no crackly badness in WoW.

more on vista...

One of my officejet printers is not "fully" functional under vista at this time. It works and prints and scans from any software ap but if you walk up and press the "scan" button it doesn't work...upon looking into it the Hp driver does not support all the features just yet...a minor thing but I guess this is commonplace.

Also after using it now for a few weeks I have been monitoring the performance, CPU, disk, Ram, and network now pretty closely just to see how it behaves. I can't over emphasize having the most memory your budget can afford. This think likes lots of elbow room, it likes to build up an enormous cache at times (I think to support this "superfetch" feature) for fast access and will use whatever memory you have....I am talking gigs of memory. The dual-core is nice in that you reduce latency when multiple things are ongoing which is normally the case. Disk access is generally the hold up now. Shoulda gotta RAID set up.

I'm happy as a pig in $hit with vista. I never played much with pcs because what I had was slow and since I sit in front of one day in and day out my interest using them was nill.

BUT I love the Media Center, so far i've got 103cds loaded and now my laptop dubs as my ultimate jukebox.

I still havent gotten nortels VPN to work, but i've opted to use asg and now I can connect from anywhere, whether thats a good or bad thing remains to be seen.

I'm glad I didn't go with XP, I think big Bill G did good with this.

Creative release a new driver for the x-fi series cards for vista
FINALLY OUT OF BETA
http://us.creative.com/support/downl...pe=0&x=25&y=18

Brian, what kind of sound card do you have. when you say crackly badness are you taking about sound? cause im getting that kind of crackly badness.