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ATI has a link to tester applet that accumulates your hardware info and
determines Vista readiness. It has three levels of worthiness: Minimum,
Recommended, and Optimal. Check it out here:
Windows Vista™ - Are You Windows Vista Ready? eula
http://ati.amd.com/technology/windowsvista/AreYouVistaReady.html
Anyways, I ran the applet on a number of my computers, and the only one
really ready to go Vista is my desktop. Not surprisingly, my laptops
are not, one just barely passes by minimum, and other one doesn't even
get that far.
No big deal, I'd only be interested in maybe putting it on my desktop
anyways. Okay, so according to the applet, my desktop breezes by
Minimum & Recommended, but stops just short of Optimal. So I checked
the report out, and the only reason it wasn't passed was because of my
video card (every other component passed, including CPU). The
interesting thing is that the video card passed all of the video card
tests, but it was still rejected. It passed all of the following tests:
(1) video ram (Required - 256MB): yes, 512MB
(2) video card 3D acceleration (Required - yes): yes
(3) video card HW transform & lighting (Required - yes): yes
(4) video card vertex shader ver. (Required - 3.0): yes, 3.0
(5) video card pixel shader ver (Required - 3.0): yes, 3.0
So it came out to yes on all of the video tests, but still not given an
overall pass on video. Now the video card I have is a Saffire ATI
X1600XT mid-range card. I know that's not the top of the line GPU, but
considering that the program passed my video card in every video test
that it listed, but still failed it overall, I gotta wonder if it's got
some hidden internal hard-coded criteria that says it will not pass any
mid-range cards, no matter what.
I'd be interested in seeing how many of your video cards pass every
test but still get failed.
Yousuf Khan
determines Vista readiness. It has three levels of worthiness: Minimum,
Recommended, and Optimal. Check it out here:
Windows Vista™ - Are You Windows Vista Ready? eula
http://ati.amd.com/technology/windowsvista/AreYouVistaReady.html
Anyways, I ran the applet on a number of my computers, and the only one
really ready to go Vista is my desktop. Not surprisingly, my laptops
are not, one just barely passes by minimum, and other one doesn't even
get that far.
No big deal, I'd only be interested in maybe putting it on my desktop
anyways. Okay, so according to the applet, my desktop breezes by
Minimum & Recommended, but stops just short of Optimal. So I checked
the report out, and the only reason it wasn't passed was because of my
video card (every other component passed, including CPU). The
interesting thing is that the video card passed all of the video card
tests, but it was still rejected. It passed all of the following tests:
(1) video ram (Required - 256MB): yes, 512MB
(2) video card 3D acceleration (Required - yes): yes
(3) video card HW transform & lighting (Required - yes): yes
(4) video card vertex shader ver. (Required - 3.0): yes, 3.0
(5) video card pixel shader ver (Required - 3.0): yes, 3.0
So it came out to yes on all of the video tests, but still not given an
overall pass on video. Now the video card I have is a Saffire ATI
X1600XT mid-range card. I know that's not the top of the line GPU, but
considering that the program passed my video card in every video test
that it listed, but still failed it overall, I gotta wonder if it's got
some hidden internal hard-coded criteria that says it will not pass any
mid-range cards, no matter what.
I'd be interested in seeing how many of your video cards pass every
test but still get failed.
Yousuf Khan