I update all my games from stored patches on my PC which were downloaded manually. Automatic Search for updates does not always work good.Inbuilt Vista defragger is extremely slow (as on XP) so this required a reboot to XP and defrag using Diskeeper that does the job within a minute or less. After each game installation i defragment both the OS- and Games partition.Leave the sound at default, be glad you have sound at all. In the games that offer 3D sound and EAX in their settings-options (and not have them greyed out automatically): don't touch those options. Most recent Creative X-Fi Beta for Vista and Audigy Beta for Vista drivers are only basic functional.Just close it, you can return it later by clicking on the tray icon.

I recommend the Vista Sidebar to be (temporarily) disabled.I am only testing the Single Player functions.Update: For Vista / X-Fi users: Creative ALchemy Project 28 Dec 06 (see Release Notes)Ĭreative Sound Blaster Audigy series Vista Beta driver(see Release notes). NVidia Windows Vista x86 RC2 (see Release Notes - 96.85)Ĭreative X-Fi Beta for Vista driver v. I updated my list of games that work/won't work on Vista RC2 withĬatalyst® Beta Display Driver for Windows Vista RTM (32 bit) Version: 8.31.100.3.2.1 - Date: Dec.