Vista Not Playing Nice With FPS Games

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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.'"