bought video card in hardware compatibility list but does not support aero?!

[james]

I tried to buy an AGP video card so I can get aero, so I bought something
cheap that is in the vista compatibility hardware list (evga nvidia geforce
fx 5700 ultra 128M)

After I installed the card, I found that aero is not supported using the
built-in vista driver. If I use the nvidia driver, the text in the vista
hold 'em game flashes continuously. Still no aero.

Where can I find a list of video card that supports vista aero and has a
stable driver?

 

[Curious]

Does your system have 1GB of Ram. If no it will not run Aero.
Have you upgraded to the latest Vista driver release for your 5700 from the
Nvidia Website?

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Wow. That's a very old video card and very pre-Aero. The current nVidia
series are in the 9000's. The minimum cards that will reliably support Aero
are the 6000 series for nVidia, but even those may have some performance
issues. I personally would recommend nothing lower than the 7000 series.

 

[Hot-text]

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
lol go here!

 

[Hot-text]

http://www.evga.com/support/drivers/

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[Guest]

I tried to buy an AGP video card so I can get aero, so I bought
something cheap that is in the vista compatibility hardware list (evga
nvidia geforce fx 5700 ultra 128M)

After I installed the card, I found that aero is not supported using the
built-in vista driver. If I use the nvidia driver, the text in the vista
hold 'em game flashes continuously. Still no aero.

Where can I find a list of video card that supports vista aero and has a
stable driver?

I had a similar problem with a geforce 6200.
Went to the help menu and did the Aero troubleshooting
to enable all the proper check boxes in several different screens
to make it work.

Another thing is to make sure you go thru the process to update the
windows experience index. Seems that you can't turn on Aero if the
old experience index isn't big enough. Do this first.
mike

 

[PvdG42]

run your windows experience index with the new card.
it will show you which component is holding your computer back. and if
it meets the minimum requirements to run aero. you need a base score of
3 for aero.

here is the system requirements for the graphics card to run aero,



- Supports a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver
- Has a DirectX 9-class graphics processor unit (GPU) that supports
Pixel Shader 2.0
- Supports 32 bits per pixel
- Passes the Windows Aero acceptance test in the Windows Driver Kit
(WDK)

I'm not sure what you mean by "base score", but if it's the score that
appears in Welcome Center as the Windows Experience Index (WEI) (the lowest
score of the 5), you're not correct. I'm typing this on an older laptop with
a WEI of 2.0, and Aero is working just fine.

 

[Curious]

I think you may be only looking at the graphic card requirements.
The following link contains all of the Vista Aero requirements including
ones such as the requirement for 1GB of Ram memory.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/c33fe91a-9e6f-41f4-ae82-3ed2d5fa2fbf1033.mspx

 

[Mike]

being cheap cost you twice, now you need a 7000, or 8000 series card