Will I get the full effects of Aero with my video Card?

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Neversummer75 said:
I have a Radeon Mobilty 9600/9700 with 64 megs?

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What did it tell you when you followed the link on the download page to test
your hardware?

Bobby
 
Might not be possible with a 64Mb graphics card - check using the Vista
Upgrade Advisor:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=65926&clcid=0x409

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as zack said, you are out of luck...
So MS is telling you that your new nice laptop is already outdated and
cannot work with vista (glass)

This alone will make hundreds of thousands of people furious with MS.

Its funny that with windowblinds you have all the shadows and transparencies
with almost any
modern card... so they (MS) COULD have a scalable technology that could work
with lesser cards too.

But they didn't want to implement it. Guess why?

I believe the REAL reason for this is for MS to push the sales of GPUs, but
people like you
who have laptops are stuck with the "aero express" theme, unless there will
be a third party
program like windowblinds that will enable this.

I would not be suprized to see a microsoft display adaptor card with nvidia
chips soon.
 
I have a Radeon Mobilty 9600/9700 with 64 megs?

Thanks
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No you need a 128Mb card at least.

Its very nice having the Aero effects but I can't help thinking its
using huge amounts of resources just to display prettier windows and
the novelty wears off pretty quick so I switched back to classic mode.

8-)

Jonah
 
Neversummer75 said:
I have a Radeon Mobilty 9600/9700 with 64 megs?

Thanks
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I have a MR 9600/64 MB in my laptop and even on
my SXGA+ screen (1400x1050) Glass runs fine, no
performance issues AFAICS. This is "out of the
box" with no additional driver from ATi.

Kai-Uwe
 
So MS is telling you that your new nice laptop is already outdated and
cannot work with vista (glass)

This alone will make hundreds of thousands of people furious with MS.
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I doubt it. How many people actually upgrade the OS on their laptop in the
first place? Laptops are even trickier to upgrade than a desktop, given the
utilities and whatnot from the vendor to get optimal results from them.

Most people won't buy Vista as an upgrade to their current OS, they'll get
it on a new PC. These new PCs will have full support for Vista.

Even if they do upgrade, losing the prettier version of the interface isn't
that big a deal IMHO.
 
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