Impressions anyone? I have some...
With regards to Max, DX appears to be unusable and OGL is only a little slower than on XP, using nVidia's v88 drivers.
For the guy with an Audigy Ex, I know it's different but I experimented with drivers for my Audigy Platinum : I wanted the Audio Console, so I installed the XP drivers and low and behold they work pretty well. Plugging in headphones in the front bay caused a BSOD, but everything else appeared to work well. I then installed the Vista drivers and that appeared to cure the BSOD, WITH a usable Audio Console!
Oh, disable UAP. Apparently the audio console won't run with it on (the actual XP drivers still work fine, apparently). Another option for you may be the NGO modded drivers.
Other than that, more or less smooth sailing. Aero is a rediculous hog (so much so that my Athlon64 3ghz, 512MB DDR2, GeForce6600 256MB system crawls to a halt installing Office 2007 AND deleting a file at the same time, for example - Aero off (WinXP style Themes) runs well). Flash Player 8 causes problems (use 9 beta). Configuring the taskbar to auto-hide appears to cause a 60ish second lockup every time I click a link in any explorer window. That's my only real problem. Other problems revolve around old hardware on a test machine I used before nuking my home computer...
With regards to Max, DX appears to be unusable and OGL is only a little slower than on XP, using nVidia's v88 drivers.
For the guy with an Audigy Ex, I know it's different but I experimented with drivers for my Audigy Platinum : I wanted the Audio Console, so I installed the XP drivers and low and behold they work pretty well. Plugging in headphones in the front bay caused a BSOD, but everything else appeared to work well. I then installed the Vista drivers and that appeared to cure the BSOD, WITH a usable Audio Console!
Oh, disable UAP. Apparently the audio console won't run with it on (the actual XP drivers still work fine, apparently). Another option for you may be the NGO modded drivers.
Other than that, more or less smooth sailing. Aero is a rediculous hog (so much so that my Athlon64 3ghz, 512MB DDR2, GeForce6600 256MB system crawls to a halt installing Office 2007 AND deleting a file at the same time, for example - Aero off (WinXP style Themes) runs well). Flash Player 8 causes problems (use 9 beta). Configuring the taskbar to auto-hide appears to cause a 60ish second lockup every time I click a link in any explorer window. That's my only real problem. Other problems revolve around old hardware on a test machine I used before nuking my home computer...