Please lets stop the bashing, I’m running Vista and it WORKS!! Running it on two systems one of my desktops the system i run Poser, Bryce, Vue, cinema4d, lightwave, and carrara on, 

 

I've run poser rendering, while surfing the web, running outlook (full) checking my voicemail and fax (they come thru my outlook,) remotely accessing  5 servers and remotely fixing a  user computer  (fixing an issue on their system - because – their  brother said this program was neat stuff,  AT THE SAME TIME switching between windows to the different apps.  Also running it on one of my tablet pc's (which is not "rated" for vista).

I’m an IT Pro, a Director of Information Technology for a international corporation, and in my 20 plus years - started with CPM does anyone remember CPM - I find 80+ percent of the time, either some nifty cycle sucking internet download is the bad boy, or the drives have not been updated. Video plays a LARGE part with these graphic apps, always has.

OPENGL see the following......

August 2006 This week the Khronos group, which is responsible for developing and maintaining OpenGL, has released a report indicating that OpenGL support will now be natively supported in Vista without layering over Direct3D. Using standard Windows installable client driver (ICD), OpenGL will be fully accelerated and be fully compatible with Windows Vista's Aeroglass UI. In fact, Khronos says that by the time Windows Vista ships, Aeroglass performance on OpenGL will be superior to that of Direct3D. According to Khronos and NVIDIA:

OpenGL work for me, but then again i'n running a NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400, street price 1900 
Running on a Dell Desktop too.

Ok stepping down from the soap box...