Vista vs Blender
The good news is, my laptop can run the Blender game engine at a decent framerate.
The bad news is I found out that is the Vista taskbar that more than halves it. I run without Aero, as Aero completely borks OpenGL (quite apart from the fact that Vista limits you to OpenGL 1.5). It’s bothered me for a while that in Blender I could never get over about 30FPS - on the weekend I found out that I can have the window as large as I like and get much better framerates as long as the window doesn’t touch the taskbar.
This is the kind of thing I hope SP1 will fix, but I severely doubt it 
February 25th, 2008 at 9:52 am
[...] This kind of foolishness is exactly why Vista is not a Proper OS for Grown Up People. [...]
November 1st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Thank you very much for the tip ! I usually run blender on my Gentoo box, but occasionally I have to run it on Vista and the speed (or rather the lack of it really started to drive me crazy) Of course, i blamed it on windows, but had no idea how to solve the problem, thanks again
November 1st, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I wish there was some way to alert the windows 7 people to this, I bet it affects all opengl apps + would be pretty annoying if it’s not fixed in the next version of windows