Intel 945GM chipset vista drivers

[Guest]

Hi,
Installed Beta 2 but cannot get the aero feature to enable? Searched several
forums and it appears that the chipset should support aero but unable to find
any drivers that work. Does anybody know if these drivers are available or
will be soon? The download vista upgrade utility returns an Ok for my setup
for all aero/core features but the rating using the built in utility returns
2.0 (assume I need at least 3.0 to enabled aero). Using Dell 6400 (core due
1.8,1G ram, 30g partition for vista, 945GM chipset (950 graphics).
Thanks,

 

[Guest]

Sorry double post, got an error and sent again, see earlier post.

 

[wgd]

Hi,
Installed Beta 2 but cannot get the aero feature to enable? Searched several
forums and it appears that the chipset should support aero but unable to find
any drivers that work. Does anybody know if these drivers are available or
will be soon? The download vista upgrade utility returns an Ok for my setup
for all aero/core features but the rating using the built in utility returns
2.0 (assume I need at least 3.0 to enabled aero). Using Dell 6400 (core due
1.8,1G ram, 30g partition for vista, 945GM chipset (950 graphics).
Thanks,

I was planning on throwing together a 945G chipset based system to test
Vista Beta 2. I read on the Intel site that the Feb. Beta 1 release
included Intel drivers to support 950 graphics, including AERO. But it
also stated that those drivers would only work with that release. I
assumed that Intel updated the drivers for the public Beta 2 release,
but that may not be the case. If true, that's disappointing. I didn't
want to have to buy a discrete graphics card for this testing. However,
the AERO interface is one of the things I wanted to take a look at.

 

[JW]

Intel did release a new set of 945G drivers dated 3/23/2006 on their Website
which I am using with Beta2 but since I only have 512MB of Ram I do not know
if they support Aero.

 

[HDRDTD]

The current Intel drivers for the 945G chipset work just fine but they do
NOT support Glass, and they are only available for Vista 32-bit not 64-bit.

However as long as you have the 945G and not the 945Gm, Vista Beta 2 come
with Intel Lakeside video drivers that are WDDM and do support Glass.

 

[wgd]

Intel did release a new set of 945G drivers dated 3/23/2006 on their Website
which I am using with Beta2 but since I only have 512MB of Ram I do not know
if they support Aero.

That's interesting, although I sure couldn't find them no matter how
hard I looked. All I could find were the 3/26/2006 Win2000/XP drivers.
Would you mind pointing out where exactly you found them? Thanks.

 

[wgd]

The current Intel drivers for the 945G chipset work just fine but they do
NOT support Glass, and they are only available for Vista 32-bit not 64-bit.

However as long as you have the 945G and not the 945Gm, Vista Beta 2 come
with Intel Lakeside video drivers that are WDDM and do support Glass.

That's good news. Now I'll go ahead with building my 945G based test
system for Vista Beta 2.

 

[JW]

I didn't say that they were special Vista drivers since they are not. They
are the regular XP drivers

 

[JW]

Here is a quote from a post of HDRDTD in another thread that is appropriate.
""
My Dell dimension E510 uses the Intel 945G chipset, and both Vista-32 and
Vista-64 install by default, an Intel Lakeside WDDM driver for the
intergrated video that does support Glass.

However, in both versions of Vista, it will leave a video device as an
'unknown' device.

If you use windows Update to look for a driver, Vista-32 will find and
download a video driver specifically for the 945G video, but that driver
does NOT support Glass. re-setting the driver back to using the Microsoft
WDDM drive (Intel Lakeside) returns the sys back to supporting Glass.

Vista-64 will not find an Intel specific driver for the 945G and it will
continue to run using the Microaost WDDM drive for Intel Lakeside video.

Systems that are using the 945Gm chipset however do not support Glass.

""

 

[Barbara]

I have a 945GM and found the info on loading the lakeport driver at
following link useful.
http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=35038

After I loaded the lakeport driver, I refreshed the performance rating and
video is now 3.0, enough for AERO.