GForce 7300LE installed, Aero not working

[Guest]

Using the nvidia site I purchased a video card that they said would work with
Aero, the GForce 7300LE with 256mb ddr2. I have it installed and installed
Vista, but Aero isn't working. I then installed the Windows Vista Upgrade
Advisor and it says my card doesn't support Pixel Shader 2.0, though all
other aspects are covered. I have the nVidia vista driver installed. Please
help.

 

[JW]

Have you checked to see if you have the most recent BIOS updates for your
MOBO? I had trouble with Vista and my graphics card till I updated mine.
Also how much main memory do you have on your system? I could not get Aero
to work on my system till I upgraded from 512MB to 1GB although I have heard
that others got Aero to work with 512.
And to top it all off after I did the memory upgrade and got Aero to work I
found to be distracting and of no benefit so I disabled it.

 

[wgd]

Using the nvidia site I purchased a video card that they said would work with
Aero, the GForce 7300LE with 256mb ddr2. I have it installed and installed
Vista, but Aero isn't working. I then installed the Windows Vista Upgrade
Advisor and it says my card doesn't support Pixel Shader 2.0, though all
other aspects are covered. I have the nVidia vista driver installed. Please
help.

First of all I'm not sure that the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor will
even work correctly when installed under Vista (if that is what you
did). It is intended to be installed under XP to evaluate your hardware
for its compatibility with Vista.

Secondly the Nvidia Geforce 7300LE is a DirectX9 card which absolutely
supports Shader Model 2.0 and 3.0. My guess would be that you have a
driver installation problem. While the 7300LE is certainly not a top of
the line card it should be more than adequate to run the Vista Aero
Glass UI.