[amchugh]

Do you have top end hardware? I bought a Vista machine from Dell (Athlon 64X2 4100+,2GB Ram, 7200RPM SATA, 6150LE Nvidia), and it stutters audio on DVD playback, and is generally mush more sluggish than XP SP2.

Also, UAC takes a looooong time to come up sometimes, delaying program starts dramatically in some cases.

I will say it’s only BSOD’d once (despite 100% signed Vista drivers!) compared to XP SP2 having a BSOD every other week (flaky hardware, but impossible to pinpoint which, bad exception handling?).

[zencat]

Do you have top end hardware?

Not really. Have a 64X2 4600+, so a little faster and a snappier video card to offload work from the CPU (again, no means high-end). The rest is the same.

DVD audio playback just shouldn't be an issue on your machine. Must be some driver issues or conflicts.

I only had the BSOD on rare occasions on XP Pro SP2. I've yet to have a single one in six months on Vista.