Incorrect Windows Experience Index

[Guest]

I am currently using a system with a AMD Athlon XP 2500+ processor, and a ATI
Radeon 9600 video card (newest version of Catalyst drivers) with 1 GB of RAM.
I have done some research, and the 9600 Radeon (which is compatible with
Windows Aero). According to the information I have found, the Windows
Experience Index should be somewhere in the 3.0 range, but the graphics
scores will not rise above 1.0. How can I make this correct?

 

[Guest]

Same problem here...

I have 1.24 Ram, intel celeron m 1.4ghz, with the 82852/55 gm/gme graphics
controller- should be more than good to handle aero.
I'm also getting ratings in the 3 to 3.9 except for the "gaming graphics"
section that is stuck on 1.

My research reccomended installing Direct X, but I didn't see anything
except the developers package for Vista. I'm debating it, since the other
option is just wait until intel or windows has time to develop it, or buy a
new graphics card already certified by windows. Then again, my research
hasn't been that in depth.

Can anyone else with aero issues see the file in black when they hit browse
from the theme settings dropdown tab? (actually, I think I had to navigate
around for a bit to find it, but it's there, just not operating)

There's got to be a workaround or crack to get aero going. Computers will do
whatever they are told.

Could adjusting the virtual memory and then changing the memory allocations
for the graphics card work?

 

[Travis King]

That is because your Intel graphics controller does not and will not have a
driver to run Aero. In fact, I might be wrong, but I don't think that
controller has enough juice for Aero anyway. Pretty much any video card
that can't run Aero will automatically get a rating of 1 in one or both of
the video categories. Now for original poster with the Ati Radeon, it
should be able to run Aero.

 

[Guest]

BUMP

I find it hard to believe that there is no assistance anywhere, although I
did read that my graphics controller isn't supported until the 9 series. I'm
not buying it. Computers do what they are told. It's physically capable of
handling it, I just need to find the way to let it know it is. It's a Laptop,
so upgrading the card isn't an option. I just bought it less than a year ago,
so I'm not buying a new system after all the time and money I invested into
it.

 

[gw]

You're not buying it? It's not supported, and it won't be. Period. You could
try coding your own WDDM driver, but I imagine Intel would do that
themselves if it had any hope of working better than a slideshow.

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-023606.htm#4

Even Intel says that the hardware structure of the lower series 900 chips do
not have a large enough memory table to allow for Aero graphics, and those
are a generation beyond the 855. They will not be developing drivers below
the 945. It's a hardware limitation - it is not "physically capable of
handling it", as you said. You can't tell a video controller chip to do
something it physically can't do. You bought a laptop with an outdated
chipset (as far as Vista is concerned). Celeron, single core, single channel
memory. All not Aero friendly.

 

[Billy]

I don't know if this will help or not, but my rating was a 2. I only have
onboard video that has 128MB video memory. I went into the BIOS to my video
config settings and made a change that pushed my rating up to a 3.
This ATI cards you speak of may need you to go into the BIOS and disable any
onboard video that may have been there before. It's hard for me to believe
that any video rating would be a 1.
If you do not know about your mother board then I suggest you do this. Go
to www.cpuid.com get the free software called CPU-Z Run it, that will give
you Info about your mother board as well as your CPU and memory. Once you
know what mother board and BIOS you have you can search for that board on
google, do a search for the manual. I'm sure you will find it with no
problem if you have the right info to seach for.

good luck