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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anusha" data-source="post: 98080" data-attributes="member: 828">I installed Vista as dual boot, in the morning. I wanted to test something that I forgot to do before.We all know that the games are slow in Vista. (Except one game; FEAR, which is unreasonably faster in Vista) I know this is because of the beta drivers. I wanted to test if the ATI Catalyst drivers for XP would work on Vista. If I recall correctly, it worked on some of the previous builds. But those cool aero effects were disabled. I wouldn't mind living without those effects as long as the games would work as in XP.Ok, I installed the drivers through device manager, by updating the current Vista WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) drivers. It asked to reboot. I rebooted. Guess what? I was warmly greated with a beloved Blue Screen of Death!!! So it didn't go well, eh? Damn! Luckily "Restore Last Known Good Configuration" in the F8 menu worked and the WDDM driver was loaded. Then I installed the ATI's beta driver because it's newer. Still the gaming performance sux. The Anti-Aliasing option in NFS Carbon is disabled. WTF!!! Even without AA, I can't run the game as good as XP.I didn't try any other games. I know OpenGL support is not there in the driver yet, so playing Prey will be impossible at max details, if not medium details.I still haven't activated it. Since I would fully migrate to Vista in a couple of months' time, I didn't want Microsoft to blacklist my key as we are not yet allowed to install Vista.I don't see the animated desktop which was supposed to be in the final version. I guess it's a Vista Premium addition, which Microsoft haven't yet finialized. They are only coming in the final, final version <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/happy.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Happy    :)" data-shortname=":)" />About NFS Carbon...It doesn't work in Vista unless you do any one of the following.1. You can  rename the movies folder in the installation dir. Movies won't play after that however.2. Set the compatibility mode to 98/MeI have only tested the 2nd option and I can confirm that it works. However, I don't know if that's responsible for the slower performance in Vista. Maybe I should rename the movies folder and see if that solves the performance issues. Cheers...</blockquote>

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