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How does Aero glass look on Ati Radeon 9550?
I have seen on Vista RTM boxes that Aero Glass can become temporarily disabled out of the blue. I suspect that a number of 3rd party applications could I've had Vista Business for a couple of days now, but the video card that I currently have will not run Aero, and Vista gives it a score of 1.something.

Windows Vista Aero Glass Desktop and Toshiba Tecra M2 ??
Could any suggest an AGP card. I Photoshop and do layout, no 3D. I would go for another Matrox but suspect that they may not support Vista Aero Glass a future feature I'd be interested in. Thanks I have a Dell 2407WFP and am using a Radeon X1300 (pre installed on my Dell) on Vista at 1920x1200.

AGP Video card for Aero Glass and Sharpest Text
Now the minimal display colors is 32-bit, but what about the minimal resolution for Aero? I believe it's not 800x600, since the current layout of Aero with the sidebar enabled is not quite I need to know how to enable the glass effects on Vista Build 5308 I have an Intel 82852/82855 Video Card on my laptop.

Enable Aero Glass
To really do anything with Aero Glass, Microsoft says you'll need a DirectX 9-compliant 3D 128-MB video card that supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware and includes (WDDM (Windows Device Driver Model) driver. Practically speaking, that means you'll need a 2006-vintage 3D graphics card. But, is that really enough?

aero and gforce4 ti 4800
I deleted QuickTime and I still don't have Aero Glass and I took a good look at my video card which is a GeForce FX5200 with 128 megs of memory. I look at the other post and I think there is something wrong but just don't know what. This is not a big deal but I just thought I would post it and if I don't get this

cheap AGP video card for Vista?
If the game takes too long to start up, try disabling Aero Glass (or under compatability disable desktop composition). slowly with too low performance if you don’t install the driver of your graphic card manually although Vista automatically recognizes and installs the drivers of your graphic card and DirectX.

Project Looking Glass
So though Vista may not run better than XP...It does not necessarily run any worse. Other than UAC of course...the only other *very noticable* difference I've found comparing Vista to XP is that Vista definately requires a much better video card. For my purposes...I'm not yet ready to go with Vista as my daily OS.

Windows Vista. Ponderring....
I leave it to you to find out if it could support Aero Glass. You can get a Ge Force 7600 512 MB for a modest price if you look around. Newegg has GeForce AGP 7600GS 512 MB boards for $140...PCI for $130... http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList. asp?DEPA=0&type=&Description=pny+7600&Submit=ENE&N=0&Ntk=all.

AGP Video card for Aero Glass and Sharpest Text
If I were MSFT I'd sure ask for every driver from the main video card driver producers. CH "Daze N. Knights" <D...@microchip.com> wrote in message Here's what's on the pulldown of my themes with Aero Glass working. At the control panel applet for Personalization (I shortcut it)>Theme is listed on the Window,

Great article going into technical superiority of SUSE Linux over ...
A VM in VPC does not use the real video card, it uses an emulated video card with 8MB of RAM. There is no issue, this is exactly how VPC and VMs work. To get Aero Glass in a VM, you need to have Vista on the host machine and then connect to VM using RDP. If you wish to run the glass features you purchased Vista for

cola "advocate" speaks: Vista requires 10x to 20x times Linux ...
... big hard drive, loads of RAM, and high end video card for something productive (encode video, improve framerates on games, etc). If the OS requires 512MB RAM, and 64MB video card, what does that leave for the applications? This "Aero Glass" just sounds like a complete and total waste of everything.

video card ?
"Jane C" wrote: Hello GT, I have a Radeon 9600 series card and it is absolutely fine with Aero glass. Mine is a GeCube Radeon 9550, 256MB, AGP 8x, although Vista I read somewhere that low end graphic card like Ati Radeon 9550 256mb will not show aero that well and that midrange video card is best for aero.

Aero Glass Interface
Click Continue on the User Account Control dialog Windows AERO Glass requires that you have a minimum of 128 MBs video RAM that is Direct X 9 compliant and supports the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM). If your video card does not meet these requirements, it's the likely cause why you are not seeing it.

How does Aero glass look on Ati Radeon 9550?
Sure, sometimes it does make mistakes (and it does need something to tell you if your video card will support Aero Glass!). In my opinion, Microsoft has grown leaps and bounds in the past year or so on the front of consumer support. Not only in the OS arena. I've seen more Microsoft developers in the newsgroups,

How do you use Aero glass?
My whopping new monster core duo with 4 megs RAM and a 6700GT video card has a 350 watt power supply. ...OK yea, maybe the parts have gotten better with power consumption. But the fact is that the company (eMachines) was so professional feeling that I bought the extended 2 year warrantee - mostly because before i

AGP Video card for Aero Glass and Sharpest Text
I'ma bit disappointed that I hear the video card for the HP/Compaq's doesn't support Direct X9 and that will be a requirement for full Longhorn Aero Glass (but that's not really a deal breaker if true). Well, Longhorn is far far away (AFAIR announced for 1006), and no-one can say what it will require or what not.

How do you use Aero glass?
Vash The Stampede Tri...@2AM.cn microsoft public windows vista general On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:31:21 -0500, FKS wrote: "Greg Lovern" <gr...@gregl.net> wrote in message news:1170269108.947665.190510@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... Should I stay with ATI for best text clarity? I recall that being a factor when I chose

AGP Video card for Aero Glass and Sharpest Text
For example, a high end video card with 256MB or more of video memory and using a WDDM driver will provide you with the ultimate graphics interface called Aero Glass that sports translucent windows, and exceptional 3D effects and animations. A moderate video card with 64--128MB of video memory and using a WDDM

Video Card Recomendation
GT G...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Does it look or perform similar to the midrange or high end graphic card? I read somewhere that low end graphic card like Ati Radeon 9550 256mb will not show aero that well and that midrange video card is best for aero.

Vista starts to roll out
I've ordered a Dell UltraSharp 2407FPW. The 550 will not push this monitor at it's native resolution of 1920x1200. Could any suggest an AGP card. I Photoshop and do layout, no 3D. I would go for another Matrox but suspect that they may not support Vista Aero Glass a future feature I'd be interested in. Thanks.