Yeah I just let it use whatever drivers it found. I didn't think the card was 10 years old
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mate that card is at least 10 years old, nvidia isnt support that card anymore
im not trying to be a smart arse this is just simply true,
spend 100 buks on a new card and enjoy the vista experience
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GeForce was only designed in 1999 - their first reference design was created in 1995!!!
Maybe when I get an extra 1G ram it should run a lot better. Plus I don't have $100 lying around.
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im glad you got it working, but seriusly, the new vista driver doesnt support your card anymore, Id say its very borderline for use in vista, honestly a 7300 or a x1300 (which i have) are awesome use no power and support hardware acceleration for dvd playback and decode x264 on the fly
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It works.
Even if its not the greatest card out at least it works. I am happy with it. When I get a few extra hundred dollars then I'll consider getting new bits and pieces and my new 20" LCD...that will be great.
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that is a pretty old card, Areo does require a fair bit of power to push it around properly.
A cheap upgrade is definatly in order ( specially as you hinted you wanted to play games on it ) Personally for games I would give vista a wide berth for a little while, its probably ok but nothings written with it in mind.
as for media center what are you using Aero for ?? turn it off its a resource hog behind VMC 
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Is it ever!
I can get a Radeon 9800XT Pro for around $130 now which is about as cheap as AGP cards come worth their money and time. I turn it off when I use VMC - a script would rock to do that (Aero). Wait til SP1 later this year or early 2008 then maybe I'll upgrade, but I want DVD Shrink, Nero, VideoRedo, Word and powerDVD to work with it - no full Vista use til then.
Thanks all for your input...it really is appreciated!
