Aero spec question

[Len Cuff]

My son has just installed Home Premium on his PC but doesn't get the
Aero option. What's the minimum spec to get Aero working please?



cheers,
Len

 

[Tom Porterfield]

My son has just installed Home Premium on his PC but doesn't get the
Aero option. What's the minimum spec to get Aero working please?

The video card requirements for AERO are at least 128 megabytes (MB) of
graphics memory and a graphics processor that supports DirectX 9
graphics, the Windows Driver Display Model (WDDM), Pixel Shader 2.0, and
32 bits per pixel.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

128-megabyte (MB) graphics card

Troubleshoot problems with Windows Aero
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Wi...e91a-9e6f-41f4-ae82-3ed2d5fa2fbf1033.mspx#EEE

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

----------------------------------------------------------------------

:

My son has just installed Home Premium on his PC but doesn't get the
Aero option. What's the minimum spec to get Aero working please?



cheers,
Len

 

[Len Cuff]

My son has just installed Home Premium on his PC but doesn't get the
Aero option. What's the minimum spec to get Aero working please?



cheers,
Len

He's got a Radeon 9200LE with 256Mb memory is this what's stopping him
getting Aero?

cheers,
Len

 

[TheOtherGuy]

Yet, oddly enough, the Aero interface runs just fine on my MacBook
with a 64MB video card. Actually, Visa runs better on my Macbook then

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Download and install the latest ATI drivers designed for Vista:
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/common-vista32.html

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

----------------------------------------------------------------------

My son has just installed Home Premium on his PC but doesn't get the
Aero option. What's the minimum spec to get Aero working please?



cheers,
Len

He's got a Radeon 9200LE with 256Mb memory is this what's stopping him
getting Aero?

cheers,
Len

 

[Tom Porterfield]

He's got a Radeon 9200LE with 256Mb memory is this what's stopping him
getting Aero?

I believe that card supports Direct X 8.1 (9.0 needed) and pixel shader
1.4 (2.0 needed).

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

128-megabyte (MB) graphics card

Oh yeah? Why doesn't it work on my old Matrox Parhelia 256MB then? Maybe
because it only supports DirectX 8?

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Yet, oddly enough, the Aero interface runs just fine on my MacBook
with a 64MB video card. Actually, Visa runs better on my Macbook then
on my desktop PC with a 128MB video card, 3GHz processor and 1GB of
RAM... go figure.

Aero needs the memory for the textures, and I believe, it needs 128MB to
ideally be able to cache windows. It just won't work as well with less.
Maybe you might find that the Taskbar thumbnails are blank on those systems?

ss.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Len

That card will not support Aero. I had a 9200 with the same problem. I
believe the minimum in the ATI line is the Radeon 9600.