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Well, if you haven't heard of any other company problems with vista drivers, you haven't looked. Just google "vista driver problems" and you'll come up with a host of issues: video (ATI too), audio, print and others.

As for vista delays being because they wanted to give vendors time to catch up is laughable. According to some of what I've read, they didn't officially release Vista to the vendors for driver dev and testing until something like October of last year.

And don't let M$ off the hook here either. I'm sure vista is buggy as hell. You did know that YOU PAY M$$$ to beta test their products, didn't you? One can't really say that an M$ O$ is an official production release until SP1. And I'm sure there are issues with DRM (esp. for video) along with their change in driver arch to cause headaches and problems.

Did you overwrite XP? Should have installed into another partition and dual booted.

Are you a gamer? Is that why the high end video? You might find that some of your games have issues with vista as well.

You should have stuck with a known quantity. The days of rushing out to get the latest and greatest coming out of redmond is over. And I suspect that's one of the reasons why they pulled XP from retail shelves, and forbade vendors from offering XP on new systems. Because they could let the public have a tried and true fall back position when all these problems came to light.

Caveat Emptor

...they ~~could~~ couldn't let the public...

There, fixed it for myself.

You should have stuck with a known quantity. The days of rushing out to get the latest and greatest coming out of redmond is over. And I suspect that's one of the reasons why they pulled XP from retail shelves, and forbade vendors from offering XP on new systems. Because they could let the public have a tried and true fall back position when all these problems came to light.

And here come the MS haters, with their disinformation. You can tell a MS hater/slappy by their use of "M$". Their hate of someone making a profit(except Apple) and their lies of Microsoft actually forces people by gun point to use their products. Such childish nonsense.

NO this isnt a overwrite, its a fresh install on a new computer that was a gift.

And yes I will give MS a pass. It is not up to MS to code everybodies drivers, it is up to companies to do it for themselves, freemarket and all of that stuff. The OS itself has not crashed, frozen, burped, farted or sneezed. In fact the OS remains perfectly operable while the video card takes a trip to the toilet.

DRM I could care less about, for one I am not a thief and two I am not using my computer as a DVR, or any sort of entertainment hub. Just give me the occasional game and I will work on excel and powerpoint.

Actually in September was when they released RC1 to the public, and the driver dev I believe goes back to last January. Alot of driver searches you will find people who are using the RC's(release candidates) which had limited, and in most cases experimental support.