I have just about decided to give up using Windows Vista 64 after 6 months of use, and go back to the tried and true Windows XP.

It's not that I have a problem with Vista itself.  There's a few things I'll miss if I downgrade.  I am a sucker the for Aero Glass windows effect.  I'm going to hate going back to "My this" and "My that" in XP.  I may later miss not being able to upgrade from 2GB of RAM to a full 4GB.

However, I've been suffering continuous driver issues with my nVidia hardware.  I've wasted more than a few weekends doing everything I can think of to get F.E.A.R and Mass Effect to run without crashing the PC.  Only the Halflife 2 series of games were able to be played from start to finish without a crash.  BioShock and Call Of Duty 4 both occasionally crashed.  But F.E.A.R and Mass Effect would both crash within a minute of the game starting.  I can't continue to buy games and cross my fingers and hope they'll run.

I've found that I can't play audio CDs.  All other CD and DVD formats play, but not audio CDs.  My searches for a solution suggest it's related to the combination of my DVD drive being SATA and the nVidia nForce drivers.

Opera 9.5 crashes when I submit a form if I have the PC Tablet Service running for my Wacom tablet.  Not being able to browser the web and draw at the same time means I'm not drawing at all.  BioShock also won't run if the same service is running.

It's got to a point where owning a PC is not a pleasure.  I spend my evenings and weekends, trawling the Internet, posting on countless forums and constantly fiddling with settings in hopes of narrowing the behavior to something specific.  It's insane really.

I could dual boot my PC between Vista and XP, but if everything works under XP what would be the point of going back to Vista?  The only time I would boot into Vista would be to test if the new nVidia drivers fixed my issues.

I'll miss Vista, but I'll enjoy the amount of time not using Vista will free up for me.