Bioshock and Vista

I know it's been a while. I bought a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate quite some time ago. Up until recently though, I had not installed it. It was mainly because I had a perfectly good install of XP and I really had no reason to use Vista. I knew that it would simply eat more resources and that even though I am a fan of Aero, there would be changes to adapt to. I decided that I would put off installing until I had a reason to. Then it happened. I made the jump from DirectX 9 hardware to DirectX 10. I purchased a Geforce 8800 GTS 640. Not top of the line I know, but I am still running a fairly old single core processor. I have NO idea when I will get around to upgrading...ok well it will probably happen early next year. I just figured why spend all that extra money on power I won't even be able to use for quite some time. So after getting the card and benchmarking games in XP and being pretty much blown away by the performance of this little card. I thought, ok now is the time. I installed Vista mostly for benchmarking. I have to say that I am noticing that certain games run quite a bit slower in Vista and others I am not so sure about. I also recently bought Bioshock. I have to say, it's a hell of a game. However, ever since I installed it. I have noticed some odd things with Vista. First off I will say that I typically leave a CD in the tray until I finish a game, since typically I only play one game at a time. So first thing I notice is the second time I try to start the game. I wait and wait...and wait. Nothing. I check the processes and Bioshock is listed there, but the application itself does not start. I think maybe I just need to restart. So I tell my computer to do that. It just sits there and stares at me. Ok fine, I say I will just press the reset button. Vista comes back up and all is well. The game starts without a problem. The next time I try to start the game the same thing happens. This is an odd trend, but a reset always fixes the problem. After I am done playing Bioshock my computer runs fine. That is until I try to do something that requires Administrative rights. I notice that my computer becomes unresponsive and takes FOREVER to pop up the UAC control for me to allow the program. I tell myself this is not right. It's not using THAT much memory. So I check the EventViewer logs. In the last hour I had 140 errors for my CDROM0. Hmmm, I say, that's the drive that Bioshock is in. I notice that when I tried opening up Device Manager that the DVDROM light is blinking. So I take out Bioshock DVD . Little do you know everything works. It must be a part of that wickedly nasty DRM everyone has been raving about. Just thought I would post in case anyone runs across similar problems.

Kris