Vista problem
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You can't have AERO on Windows Vista Home Basic Edition and the Starter Edition. All the other editions (Home Premium, Business, Ultimate) have AERO. So, regardless of your PC configuration, you can't have AERO. Your only solution is to upgrade.
Home Basic sucks in my opinion for the price you pay. Relatively, its best to upgrade to Home Premium. You can upgrade at Microsoft Connect, so you need only pay the differential amount.
I had no trouble installing any of Valve games like Counter Strike, CS Source, Half Life, etc. It all installed fine and works smoothly. Setting the installer in compatibility mode to Windows XP might help. Else, I would recommend getting it from Steam directly.
About NFS Carbon, apparently the movie files in NFSC has some issues on Vista. So the moment the game starts, the intro video starts to play which crashes the program. I fixed the problem temporarily by renaming/deleting the MOVIES folder under the root installation folder of NFSC but that comes at a costly price, you can't see Emmanuelle Vaugier (Nikki)
EA has released an official patch to fix the problem. For some reason, I couldn't download it from the official site. I got it from another source. I have uploaded the file to my server just for you. You can download it here: http://www.jetblazer.com/misc/nfsc_patch1.3_collectors_englishuk.exe
Vista SP1 RC has been released to public. You could download it if you are having too many problems. You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9de6260e-4275-482d-9524-de850c4dd91c&displaylang=en <-- for 64-bit. Google for 32-bit.
P.S. Let me know when you are done downloading the NFS patch so that I can delete it from my server.
