vista glass

[Guest]

Installed vista beta 2, works great, very amazing! quicker than my
troublesome XP installation, but I can't get glass on my vista, and when I go
to the themes part, all I have is Vista Basic theme, Classic, standard and a
couple of high contrast themes. Someone please help me!!!
PS: I can't figure out how to find out how much Graphics memory I have, But
according to windows XP and Vista I have 248MB of RAM(even though it's
actually 247MB)

 

[Guest]

you might have to get the latest windows vista drivers for your display card.
try going to your display card's manufacturer's website and search for latest
windows vista WDDM drivers

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

That kind of reported ram would be on a system with 256MB of ram and shared
video (no separate video card).

You need to tell us what graphics card is in your computer before we can
help you figure out how much video ram you have. In any case, video ram is
not the deciding element in determining whether your card supports Aero
Glass. The card has to support true 3D rendering and DirectX 9. If yours
is a legacy system then it is almost certainly not able to handle Aero
Glass. btw, Aero is only the theme. The effects that everyone is talking
about is Glass.

 

[Guest]

Well, I think it is an Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller, well,
thats whatit says on the Intel Extreme Graphics Control Panel thing.

 

[Guest]

I was just at the intel website, and I can only find XP drivers, no WDDM
drivers to be found for an Intel 82845G Graphics Controller. Which makes me
all the more frustrated. If it helps, Vista gave my system an overall score
of 1. (Is that good?)

 

[Roy Coorne]

mjcaboose130 let us take part in his miserable situation as following:

I was just at the intel website, and I can only find XP drivers, no WDDM
drivers to be found for an Intel 82845G Graphics Controller. Which makes me
all the more frustrated. If it helps, Vista gave my system an overall score
of 1. (Is that good?)

Yes

The scale is
- 1 good
- 2 better
- 3 very good
- 4 excellent
- 5 most excellent

 

[Guest]

My Video card is an Intel 82845G with 64 MB of memory, I dont think it
supports true 3D rendering since my system gets extremely bogged down just
playing things like Command and Conquer Renegade or Generals, Even the Sims 2
is slow as Snails.UT2004 wasn't much faster (you can tell I love games)
So my graphics card probably doesn't support True 3D rendering, but it
definetly supports DirectX 9.0c
I finally found the Video RAM under Display Properties and Advanced
Settings, while looking for the monitor refresh rate control(I found it
too!!!)

PS I've only taken the PC apart twice, to put in a Wireless Network card
from belkin, whic Vista mistakes for a Broadcom(?) and to put in a
Lightscribe DVD Burner (You can also tell I love boasting)

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

I don't get the new Windows Vista AERO Glass user interface, why?

Windows AERO Glass requires that you have a minimum of 64 MBs video RAM that
is Direct X 9 compliant and supports the Windows Display Driver Model
(WDDM), formerly (LDDM). If your video card does not meet these
requirements, it's the likely cause why you are not seeing it. For
onboard/integrated cards, you need to have 1 GB of dual channel memory
installed with 512 MBs of RAM allocated to the system. The amount of Video
RAM also determines the resolution size your Display can use.

http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/andre/archive/2006/06/14/3002.aspx