Best VISTA version for games??

Just wondering if I picked up the "proper" windows vista version for gaming.... I'm using Vista Home Premium 64bit...

I am kinda not really happy with it due to the fact I've already gotten 1 blue screen- something about memory...
and some programs stops working ya know that error window just pops up with no what so ever reason and says that program has stopped working.. Funny thing is it that it aint third party programs no it's MS owns programs "Explorer.exe" and "Internet explorer"

So should I upgrade to Ultimate maybe? I dunno... I am just thinking that VISTA sucks atm.

it may be the 64 bit part, because I have Home Premium and don't get that...Hewkii

That'd be weird of it is the 64-bit causing it... I mean it's MS's own applications that tends to crash, rarely any third party..

Is it your specs?

Well 64 bit isn't as supported as 32 bit (program wise)

Have you always had these problems since you've been using Vista? Or was Vista working fine for a while, now all of the sudden you are having problems?

I'm running Vista Ultimate 64-bit (since April) and haven't had any problems. 64-bit rocks IMO, I don't think that's the reason (on older hardware could cause strange problems I guess?). I don't think upgrading from Home Premium to Ultimate is going to help either, Home Premium should be fine.

Maybe do some searches and see what other people have done to fix the problem. Just a quick look and seemed like alot of people were using System Restore to get things working again (I always keep system restore disabled on my machine, so I have no restore points, hopefully you don't do the same).

The only thing similar that I remember was when I was trying to time my memory at it's rated/advertised latency (4-4-4-12), I was getting random BSOD crashes. I set the timings back to SPD (5-5-5-15), and with that change, the system is solid as a rock. Although I'm not happy about that, but the stability is great (better than XP) :)

To the guys talking about 64-bit support, there is hardly any problem at all running games on 64-bit, works better than my 32-bit Home Premium machine. And even if there were problems with support, Sollet is talking about Windows internal applications, i.e. the OS itself is having problems (explorer.exe for example).

The above poster is correct, 64 bit should be as stable as 32 bit. I'm running premium 64 bit and havent crashed in months. Make sure you have updated drivers on everything... sound/video/chipset. 64 bit xp didn't have the support vista 64 does (microsoft requires drivers for both versions to certify), so it wasn't as stable.

Also if you have 4gb of ram there are workarounds that need to be enabled in some games (ie bf2142 and a few others).