Windows Vista and Gaming

ok, I search everywhere and can't seem to find any answers. Well, all I found was either games run good on Vista, or XXX game cannot be played on Vista.

My question is:
Did anyone encounter a problem whereby a game is installed successfully, but graphics is ermm somehow "Corrupted" (can't think of a better description).

My scenario is, game installed perfectly. Run the game, opening videos and companies logos, advertisement etc all ran perfect. BUT, when click to start the game, the graphics corrupt. What i meant by corrupt is: imagine your top half of the screen has the expected graphic images running perfectly, but the bottom half of the screen has those zig-zag pink/red, green, blue lines all mess up (which is why i described as corrupted).

I'm suspecting it's due to my GPU... it's an ATI x1600 128 dedicated, 512hyper-mem. Other than this problem with game's graphic, everything else run good for Vista on my notebook. Just wanna know whether anyone experience this problem or that there's a way around it?

 

I had the same problems with corruption with a X1600 and RC2 w/ ATI drivers.

Uninstall the ATI Drivers, ATI CCC, and then the driver for the X1600 (actually delete the driver file if RC2 asks). Search for new hardware and select the X1600 driver written by Microsoft. See if that helps.

 

Did your method work for you? Sorry for asking, I initially started the thread because i bump into forums where people mentioned about playing games on Vista! (I thought Vista wasn't capable of gaming when i saw that mine was having problems, didn't know it was running well for some other people.)

And, I had uninstalled Vista after 2 weeks of testing. I Love the new OS but it's too troublesome always booting back to XP Pro when I'm in the mood of gaming (which is very often ). Can't try it out now, but if the method do work, I would gladly reinstall Vista again! It's just too messy when I want to remove it >_<

Note: When I had Vista, I did install the Windows ATI driver (from microsoft) but it didn't work before. then I downloaded the beta driver for Vista from ATI which didn't work as well. However, I remember I didn't do a clean installation though (I Just overwrite the drivers with the new installation). BTW, I was using RC1 before. Wasn't able to download RC2 since it's removed from public when I wanted to download it (Wish I had download it...)

 

yeah, i believe microsoft is having a hard time with hardware developer, coz they just seems to be behind in driver development. especially on 64-bit.

 

Its probably going to be a year or so before ATI (and NVIDIA), along with all other vendors, to get their drivers set. They haven't really cared about 64-bit (only XP x64...which bytes) OSes yet, and they haven't changed their thinking enough.

Any vendor that doesn't make a 64bit driver will loose my business in the future though.

Anyway, I'm going to be installing Oblivion to see how it does tonight...should be interesting!

 

Please feedback on the graphics I was testing it on Oblivion, FEAR, and CivCity: Rome and all 3 give me the 1/2 screen corrupt, tried minimal settings, max, or changing resolution. All give the same result, Opening is smooth and perfect, but when starting to play, screen corrupt.