Vista without good video card HACK!

[john jay smith]

Look what I FOUND! lol ... I have not tried it but I will!

NOTE: I have not tried this.. and I would suggest you not do it unless you
are a geek....

http://www.tweakvista.com/article38299.aspx

Microsoft Windows Vista, formally Codename longhorn has a new user interface
system codenamed Avalon. This new user interface engine greatly enhances
the look by utilizing several cool looking 3D effects. Of course, to be
able to fully utilize the new engine you need a good 3D video card on top of
special drivers, WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model).

To turn on this effect just execute c:\Windows\System32\UXSS.exe or enable
and start the User Experience Session Management Service.

1. Open up Regedit.
2. Navigate through HKEY_local_machine, Software, and Microsoft.
3. Create a new KEY called DWM.
4. In the new DWM key you created, create a DWORD called EnableMachineCheck.
5. Make sure this value is set to 0 and hardware checking is now disabled.

Quick Note: Although you can get it to run on older hardware, with the lack
of WDDM drivers available, it is going to run very slowly.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Actually, the new user interface is called Aero, and does not utalize
Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon). Aero is rendered using
Direct 3D, based on Direct X 9, which utilizes your graphics card.

 

[john jay smith]

nah it didnt work with RC1.. perhaps someone knows another way?

 

[Sascha Benjamin Jazbec]

Buy a DX9 card - no other "hack" is going.

Nvidia Geforce 5200 is the cheapest Aero-ready card I can think of. (Europe
~ 35 EUR)



SBJ

 

[john jay smith]

Yeah I will get them. for sure...

Question:

I have Vista RC1 on 2 machines that dont have a glass capable card...
one is 2.6 ghz and the other is 1.8 ghz...

These are nvidia cards. not too old, with 64 and 128 mb ram.. yet I see some
lag
when opening closing windows etc. Will this fix when I get new cards?
(because they say
that the GPU then renders the desktop?) Or is it because I dont have a dual
core super computer that I see this (small) lag? lol

Thanks....

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

A number factors, processor speed, ram and graphics can cause this. My
recommendation would be to upgrade both the memory and graphics card.

 

[john jay smith]

Memory? I have 1 and 1.2 gb of ram on these machines...

I am doing now what testers SHOULD be doing..

they keep saying vista is fast compared to XP...

Yeah but once you load 50+ programs on to vista what will happen?
Im installing what I usually install on xp to see

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I agree. The early reports on speed sound much like you would expect from a
fresh install of any OS. It is the regular usage scenario that interests me
too.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

There is a difference between loading and running 50 programs on Windows
Vista. I am sure if you ran all 50 on XP with your machine specs, it would
be brought to its knees. By design (it seems), newer versions of Windows
tend to be slower on older machines, and I can vouch for that with my
machine. The OS is responsive, and I have lots of apps open and running on
it daily, Word, Outlook, Photoshop 6, 10 IE 7 tabs, Media Player, Photo
Gallery, various Explorer Windows, and I have not taken a hit in performance
where I feel like I should reboot.

Machine specs:
P4 3.2 Ghz 32-bit
2.6 GBs of RAM
Geforce FX 5200 128 MB AGP

Machine 2
AMD Sempron 1.6 Ghz 64 Bit
512 MBs of RAM
Geforce FX 5200 128 MB AGP

Please note, regardless Vista is at RC1, there is still a fair amount of
performance tuning left to be done.

 

[Guest]

I am running vista RC1 with an nVidia Geforce 4 mx4000 PCI(normal), and the
durned OS refuses to let me use Areo, I have 1 gig DDR2, 3.06 GHz P4, and the
above card.
does anyone have suggestions?

I have been Using RC1 for about 2 weeks, and I have noticed a temendous
drain on system resources,even with out any backgroud apps,and sidebar.