Upgrading XP to Vista on Macbook Pro Unibody

After running the Vista Upgrade Advisor, I get the message that the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT will NOT work in Windows Vista.
I can only assume that this is because the drivers are installed from the Leopard disk once I've installed Vista.
Anyone else done an upgrade or know if this is a problem?
Thanks
Chris

Hi Chris,
see this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1989144&tstart=0
It is as of now most definitely a driver issue.
Regards
Stefan

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