Aero Glass?

[Guest]

What are the requirements for AeroGlass to work, i have seen so many
different requirements i havnt seen a specific one yet. And if i get a new
video card and intall it, do i have to re-install Vista to get Aero Glass, or
will it automatically show up?

Thanks,
habs6091

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Windows AERO Glass requires that you have a minimum of 64 MBs video RAM that
is Direct X 9 compliant and supports the Windows Display Driver Model
(WDDM), formerly (LDDM). If your video card does not meet these
requirements, its the likely cause why you are not seeing it. For
onboard/integrated cards, you need to have 1 GB of dual channel memory
installed with 512 MBs of RAM allocated to the system.
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[Guest]

would this card work
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10052920&catid=

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

What does the ATI website say about it? It should but you should do the
research to be sure.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Here is a list of all the supported ATI Cards:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=19933
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[Lang Murphy]

Try the Vista Upgrade Advisor - download at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

That will tell you whether your current card will support Aero... and you
can buy a new card, run the upgrade advisor on it, and if it doesn't meet
the requirements, return it. Forget the minimum requirements... you want at
miniumum 128MB on the card, DirectX 9 and WDDM support (which I take to mean
Pixel 2 Shading...). The main problem with identifiying a video card NOW is
driver support. The upgrade advisor may tell you the card has the hardware
necessary to support Aero but the drivers are the main issue after that...
sorry, late at night, rambling... one would think it's safe to assume most
mainstream video cards are going to offer Vista support.

Good luck!

 

[Bones]

On top of the requirements listed below from Andre's post, the card also
needs to support pixel shading 2.0

 

[Guest]

Where can i find a WDDM for the intel chipset 915gm/gms family?

 

[Guest]

Where can i find a WDDM for the intel chipset 915gm/gms family?

 

[Rick]

Just as a WILD guess, I would start with the
Intel web site!

www.intel.com

 

[Guest]

I have, but can't find a WDDM for any of their boards, i have tried every
search variant i can think of

 

[Rick]

Well, it's just as it was with Win x64 - the
Vendor is the one responsible for the drivers.
If they did not provide drivers to Microsoft to
include in the Vista base, then you have to
contact the Vendor, in this case Intel, for
drivers. Microsoft does not write the drivers!

 

[Rick]

Are you sure you need a driver? My copy of
Vista list the "Mobil Intel(R) 915GM/GMS/910GML
Express Chipset Family" as being in the base
system. I found it under "Add Hardware" in the
"Control Panel."

So, it may already be installed in your system!

 

[Rick]

So what did you discover about your problem?

I have, but can't find a WDDM for any of their boards, i have tried every
search variant i can think of

 

[Guest]

I installed it and it said it installed ok, but below that it said "This
device cannot start (Code 10).