My goodness. I am sick of this. You do not, i repeat NOT, lost 10% of your gaming capabilities with Vista. I can run every game on Vista with at most a 2 FPS lost compared to XP. That is with XP having the card OC and Vista not.
People need to stop the Vista bashing. It is old get over it already. If you dont like it dont use it. For Pete's sake stop bashing those that do use it. It is our choice not yours.
It have been over 18 months now. Give it up.
I don't bash people who use Vista, I bash the product itself because I have a right to an opinion; I am in no way making personal, tasteless attacks. My opinions about Vista are based on experience and benchmarks, which do show a decrease in performance in Vista for gaming. XP runs *slightly* better and has more stability/compatibility for gaming - you just can't argue about DX10, it has been proven very solidly that DX10 visuals are possible in DX9 and run more efficiently... so IMO, I feel that I have good reason to bash Vista.. some games take really drastic hits in performance in Vista, while others don't, but 99% of the time XP will be ahead in performance, whether by 1% or 100%, I have yet to see one game perform better - am I saying to go back to XP? No... not really worth the effort (especially for a laptop), but if I had a choice from the start, I would definitely NOT take Vista, as there is absolutely no reason to. Besides, that was only a part of my post.. I didn't put the blame squarely on Vista either...
anyway, the graphics card is what's bottlenecking him the most, the 9500GS is weaker than the 8600M-GT, it's still better than integrated but its basically an 8400GS, pretty poor performing card, and Kane and Lynch, as stated above, is not really a well-developed game, probably not optimized well at all
to the OP, what resolution you play at?