I'm anxiously awaiting news that NVidia has updated their Windows drivers for the challenges of Vista. I have not purchased Vista Ultimate yet, and won't until I see drivers for that program...what's the sense?Anyone heard anything about this.....do you have any insider info as to approximately how much longer we have to wait?

This is the latest news from the nVidia camp: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=357Looks like monthly updates similar to AMD/ATI.Regards,Jim Karn

Jim,Thanks for the very informative link you provided. That, unfortunately, supports what I didn't want to believe. It's going to be a long time before Vista and NVidia are "on the same page". It does seem, though, that NVidia is going to try to focus on gaming issues as they develop the very complicated drivers necessary for Vista. It seems they did this when XP was introduced too. Windows 98 was considered a good gaming platform so NVidia focused on gaming improvements first in XP and drew information from Windows 98 until all the drivers for XP were really ready for the gaming community.

For simmers, the only time that Nvidia and Vista need to be on the same page, is AFTER the DX10 patch. In the meantime, it serves you right for being an early adopter - or unpaid beta tester - as ALL Vista users with DX10-compatible Nvidia cards are. :)Allcott

>I'm anxiously awaiting news that NVidia has updated their>Windows drivers for the challenges of Vista. I have not>purchased Vista Ultimate yet, and won't until I see drivers>for that program...what's the sense?>Anyone heard anything about this.....do you have any insider>info as to approximately how much longer we have to wait?>> My experience.With my AMD Quad.I downloaded NVidia's latest Vista drivers!When you install Vista, after choosing upgrade or clean install, you are given the means to select a drive or partition to install vista on, like XP.Then it's different! No F6 to tell it you want to load drivers, instead you have a "load drivers" menu line/link.So I clicked "load drivers" and browesed to the Vista drivers.It told me they were not compatible?So I put my XP disk in drive A: for the nvidia XP drivers and Vista installed with no problems. It liked the XP drivers for install purposes?AFTER, Vista was installed I reinstalled the Nvidia ASUS 608a Vista chipset drivers, then the 8800GTX Vista video drivers and noticed the 3D setup options were enabled.Set Anostrophic 16XSet Antialias 16QMip maps Triliniar.Told it to ignore application settings.When you install Vista it scores your machine. MS say's 2-3 is OK, 4 is better and 5 is teriffic.After setting stuff up my score was 5.9, not sure if it goes higher or not.FSX seems much smoother with Vista. I get 30-33 FPS while at a gate at JFK. In fact the 744 had a push truck aimed at it. I found my little list of FSX commands, pressed shift+P, lo and behold!, the little push truck drove up to the 744 and pushed it back until I pressed the key's again. Then I tried the fuel truck, shift+F it worked. Stayed at 30-33 FPS.I notice core 3-4 are a lot more active with Vista.So try your XP drivers to install, THEN upgrade to Vista.Worked for me.