so about a bug per dollar?

Does this mean we should be thankful it doesn't cost more?!?

and a 24-Bit Audigy 2 Card..

I'm running a 24-bit Audigy 4 card without issue....last time I looked on the Creative site, they were only providing Vista driver support for Audigy 4 and above cards, tho that could change. Creative noted that the entire Audigy series (and above) would eventually receive Vista driver support.

I really like Vista RC1 and IF RC2 is made available, I'll surely download and install it. My PC is rated as a "5" and I haven't encountered any functional problems with the O/S. Yes, the application and driver compatibility issue is going to be the caveat for many I suspect . . . it will be for me. Therefore, I'm not going to rush out and buy Vista when it is first released. I would guess it will take at least a month or more for software and hardware manufacturers to catch up. And I also have little doubt that updated drivers will not be made available for LOTS of models as the manufacturers will take advantage of the situation and put pressure on people to buy new "Vista compatible" hardware from them.

I seem to be one of the few people that have had no driver issues with Vista. I installed the beta to a secondary hard drive, and booted into Vista. It searched for drivers and found them all. About 8-10 I think. Some for gamepads, my camera, my audio, mouse, keyboard, and I think some others I wasn't sure what they were for.

Do most people install the Vista Beta/RC's over top of their WinXP OS, or on a partition/secondary drive?

I just got my RC1 in the mail over the weekend! LOL!

I just got my RC1 in the mail over the weekend!

Mine came just today...no rush to open it...

Do most people install the Vista Beta/RC's over top of their WinXP OS, or on a partition/secondary drive?

I still run XP Pro as my primary OS, with XP Home set up for gaming on a seconary drive, and Vista RC1 installed on a third drive.

I've heard of people installing Vista over XP as their main OS, but given that MS advises Vista is still in development, purely for evaluation purposes and should NOT be used as a primary OS, it's not something I would do. However, I've found Vista RC1 to be quite stable and a big improvement on beta 2, with better driver support and more of my hardware/programs working.

The only real issue I have is the print/imaging software for my HP 1210 all-in-one does not install correctly, though Vista has recognised the hardware okay and is perfectly usable via its function buttons. It would be nice if HP and MS have been able to resolve the software issue in RC2, but if not it's no biggie as I can reboot into XP if I need to access the print/imaging programs.

no driver issues on my lap top.. though, it was 'vista ready'. my desktop still has no video ( ati is not making drivers for lower than radeon 9600s ) and my audigy 2 only has sound in the front 2 channels.

One positive aspect of Vista coming out will be MAYBE the ridiculous amount of Vista walls, skins, themes, icons and other general garbage may subside.

Ah...that double positive = negative....

 

"Yeah, right"...

my desktop still has no video ( ati is not making drivers for lower than radeon 9600s ) and my audigy 2 only has sound in the front 2 channels.

Don't understand why you've no video, wife's machine has a RadeOn 9550 256mb card and it runs the Vista desktop with Aero just fine with the most recent drivers....wonder if it could be monitor driver related?

As for your Audigy 2, Creative posted a notice stating it would receive Vista support in the nearish future, so hopefully you'll have surround sound soon. I have an Audigy 4 but don't have your problem as I run directly from the digital output to a Creative Inspire 5.1 Digital 5600 proccessor/amp. I thought it had grunt with the 5.1 speakers that came with it, but I recenty connected up my hi.fi's surround speakers and now it really kicks butt....unfortunately, suburban life and potential visits from the police deter me from really cranking it up.

My older Toshiba Satellite has 512MB RAM, a 60GB Hard Drive, 1.6GHz Celeron M CPU, and ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics. I get Aero Glass and all of the kick-butt effects on it and it actually runs very fast.