Quote Originally Posted by GamingDaemon View Post
Hmmm, I have installed a couple of different released and beta versions of the nVidia drivers on 3 different Vista bxes, and never had it fail to recognize the OS. That's weird. You may want to try the beta 101.41, or move backward from 100.65.

WRT to speed, I haven't seen any slowness with the drivers at all. I can run Supreme Commander with the settings on full (16Q, 16x, high fidelity, etc.) and the thing just flies.

But I still have the sleep problem with Vista. I just don't use sleep. In fact, Vista boots so fast, I jsut shut down my PC when I'm not using it.
I think it really depends on the game. I've seen benchmarks for some games that take as much as a 50% performance hit when running under Vista.

I run BF2142 under Vista with the release version Nvidia drivers on my 8800 and enjoy a nice solid 99 frame rate in the game. It runs buttery smooth in single player, but I get a lot of lags/hiccups when playing multi-player even though the framerate counter never drops below about 50fps. It definitely feels like driver/OS interaction issues going on. Also if I turn up all of the details in BF2142 I've had some weird application crashes, etc, that I suspect are driver related (seeing as the rig is stable in testing for up to 12 hours with no errors).