I have spent several days working with Vista. I have not overclocked any of my hardware and am using Vista approved WDM drivers. 

 

I am using a Pentium 2.8 Mhz Duel Core 915, NVIDIA DDRII 7600 GS 8X AGP v 3., and 2 gigs of DDRII 667 Mhz PC-5300 memory, with an ACPI compatible 350 Watt Power supply.  That gives me a 5.0 Performance Rating within Vista for a 32 bit setup. Note: All of my equipment is capable of 64 bit. 

 

After installing VUE 5 in Vista ( the clean install of the OS ) Vue crashed when I opened the app. It took several reboots of the OS and Vue before it finally opened. I unchecked the Test the Video Card attribute, and after that Vue stopped crashing and now runs fine. 

 

I am still waiting on the Retail version. However, Vista takes about 600 megs of memory, and is constantly running background apps for various purposes. Since Vue requires 1 gig to operate, I would suggest a minimum of 2 gigs of memory for Vista.

 

It took several days to sort out all of the Warnings and Errors caused by apps and the OS. After getting rid of old software and turning off services that made the system unstable, I did not need them anyway, Vista is running much better. However, I am still logging errors and warning from the operation of the OS, code tripping over code. Microsoft has more cleaning up to do. 

 

So, I really like the new look, but for now, unless you really need the Vista environment? Maybe the OS and Apps will have the problems sorted out by Fall.  As far as the 64 bit versions go, maybe even longer for Third Party Apps and Hardware to catchup.

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