So long as you have new drivers for your video card, Archicad 10 is reasonably stable in Vista. Still a bit buggy though(particularly in 3D).
Most likely the error you are getting is caused by the lack of OpenGL support in the driver you are using. nVidia and ATI both have some sort of OpenGL emulation in their drivers now(nvidia's is a lot better than ATI's), so grabbing the latest one(from their website, not MS Update) should get you going.
Josh Osborne - Central Innovation
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