Vista and NVIDIA SLI
When not in business intelligence mode, I am a PC gamer and being an old PC Gamer I never got the console thing. Like many of you I was hesitant about upgrading to Vista as my black box has been continually modded over the last 3 years to keep up with the latest games. On the upside there are a few Vista only (direct x10) games appearing and I also wanted to see if Vista 64-bit would work with my dual core AMD Opteron CPU.
I am rarely impressed but everything just worked. Then I realised that only one of the graphics cards showed up, and I have two running in parallel, what NVIDIA call SLI. I wondered if NVIDA had fixed the SLI/Vista issue and sure enough a quick download from their site (https://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/drivers.html) and problem sorted. So I have 5.0 on the Vista performance scale which is at the high end of the master chief's recommendations for Halo 2 .
Of course Halo 3 is coming out in September, so perhaps I will need that Xbox console thing, or as I explained to my wife "a fully featured DVD player with time-slip recording, and it comes in black to go with the TV".