I play FL on vista sp1 at 1280x960 (ini edited) with all quality enhancement at max forced by graphic card control panel (8800GTS 512).
Looks fine. Never crashed in 1 year. Account Manager works well here too.
What is the problem?
Fun here on Vista (except for the firewall issue).....
I'm playing at 1600x1200 all options on, Full FSAA:)
Some firewalls don't work with Freelancer on Vista, you have to un-install them (disabling doesn't work).
You might want to turn of Aero, it helps a bit, some of that desktop component seems to be always running..
besides that if you don't encounter the TDR issue, you'd be happy.
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