COH works just fine with Vista - I've been using Vista since last November without a hitch on COH/V.
NVidia on the other hand....
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I've removed Vista and went back to XP. There's a known issue with Vista+NVidia combination that displays a message "the nvdldwhatever driver stopped responding and recovered" that annoyed me to the point I decided to go back to XP. That problem is supposed to happen with ANY gfx card, but my search-fu showed it happens mainly with NVidia users (mainly meaning that I've only seen a couple complaints with ATI). Tried all the workarounds suggested in NVidia and Anandtech forums (made an electrician sort another wall plug to plug the pottie direct to wall, changed my RAM, amended the RAM voltage, even overclocked it a bit...) but none of them worked for me, although on same forums, quite a few people claimed they worked for them.
It is a random crash caused by the video response time which on Vista is set for 2 seconds while it seems than NVidia drivers have a different one (better ask FFM on this one for a proper explanation).
Anyway, Vista looks great, it's damn stable and easy to use, I'd go Vista and a non-NVidia GFX but I'd keep the old XP installation disk at hand, then, before you install any data on your new pottie (music and stuff), I'd just install CoX and try it for a few days, if you get no crashes then install everything else, if unfortunately you have problems and the workarounds on the internet tech forums don't work, you can always go back to XP.-
Ive been using Vista (32 bit) since about October on my main machine and it is very nice.
I also have a NVidia card and I do get the driver response crash, but it is normally about one per month and if I reboot it doesnt happen again. (However, keep in mind that CoH is the only game I play and I only play this for a couple of hours each week, and the crash always happens when playing CoH.)
Well, I'm using Vista and a GeForce 8800GTS with no issues whatsoever, so I dunno about any problems 
Vista has been pretty much flawless since I got my PC last year, before SP1 and I've been more than happy with it
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I've had a new laptop with vista on since christmas and aside from that flaming nvidia problem I've got absolutely no complaints.
Eventually dell got off their [censored] and released a driver update that more or less sorted it out anyway, so now I get the message very rarely (almost never) instead of near constantly.
As for coh, it runs fine on directx 10, though it's worth mentioning that if you *do* get that driver stopped responding error, it seems to crash coh where some games will recover after a few seconds (or minutes).
So, er yeah, vista is great but get an ati card.
I've been playing CoX on Vista (64 Bit) for a while now and have had no issues except for the occasional crash that affects 8000 and 9000 series cards which is known about and a fix is in the pipeline according to Lightouse.
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Was going to get a nvidia 280 graphics card and possibly also order xp 64 as im not sure about vista!
If your new rig is due for the end of the year, hopefully a fix will be out, I like Vista don't get me wrong, I just seem to have been on the unlucky side with this problem because I had that crash 4 - 5 times a day and had to reboot every single time otherwie I couldn't log back on CoX
Surprised that any Radeon owners get that error as its a dll that is part of the Nvidia driver that hangs.
COV/H runs just fine under Vista x64 as well. I've seen the bug as well, but it's quite rare and even rarer if you're using the WHQL drivers from NVIDIA.
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Surprised that any Radeon owners get that error as its a dll that is part of the Nvidia driver that hangs.
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Tbh now that you mention it I've only seen about the Radeon "complaints" from NVidia users who claim there are "also" Radeon complaints.
Ran it fine on my Vista Enterprise 64bit craptop. The only issue I found was the fact that vista's commit charge was 750mb @desktop with no apps running. As the laptop only has 2GB ram, it can run out if you run the gfx settings too high.
But as desktop ram is cheap now, stuf the box full and it'll be fine.
I know the issue you're talking about. Vista will assume that something has crashed if the driver hangs for more than 2 seconds, and restart it. It's a good approach, but a lot of games will happily hang for 2 seconds at a time. This is sloppy programming on the game devs' part.
You can read more about it and learn how to disable or tweak it here.
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Was going to get a nvidia 280 graphics card and possibly also order xp 64 as im not sure about vista!
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Do not, under any circumstances, go to XP64. Remember the driver problems with Vista when it first came out? They even WORSE for XP64, and most have never been fixed. There are very few device drivers for it, lots of compatibility issues, and generally it just blows chunks.
If you want to stay with XP, that's fine, but go 32bit, not 64. If you want Vista, THEN you can go 64bit, as there are no driver issues.
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I ran XP 64bit on my craptop for a while. Absolutely shocking 32bit drivers wont work and most of the 64bit ones 2003 & vista fail the OS check (even though xp64bit is mostly 2k3server 64bit). Even stuff like nvidia drivers which specifically say for XP64bit refuse to work.
Had to give up after 3 days.
So as above, it sucks the big one. Vista 64bit is better drivered and a smoother install.
Hi all I am going (hopefully) to get a new pc at either the end of this year or the start of next year.
My question is does cox work with vista and direct X 10 if so do I have to download any patches?
Would be well useful to now!
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