As some of the posts state this has been benched using a 'Release Candidate' so the final version will hopefully be even better. It's good to see Vista finally starting to shine against XP. I for one haven't had any problems since trying the release candidate and would recommend Vista to anyone. (and I'm a gamer too) So while the 'ludites' continue to slate Vista, I'm going to carry on playing games in beautiful DX10, enjoy the wonderful interface and snigger at the poor unfortunate XP users too scared to make the switch.