Where are the functions?

[Guest]

Hello everyone!

I just got Windows Vista Home Premium on my powerful laptop.

I formatted my drive to NTFS before I installed. Then after the
installation, some drivers like Graphic, Sounds and Network are missing. I
went to my manufacturer's website (TOSHIBA) to install those drivers. It
worked perfectly. But, I cannot use some functions and my computer's rate is
1.

I cannot use FLIP 3D, the Taskbar program preview (when a program is reduced
in the taskbar) and Windows Aero.

But, Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor said that I can use those functions.

All the other functions like Games, Media Center and so on works perfectly
instead of Chess Titans which lags a bit.

Here are my system's capacities :

- Graphics : nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 with 64MB of RAM (cannot change
because it's embedded in the motherboard). Display resolution : 1440x900
- Sounds : Realtek Audio
- Memory : 2GB of RAM
- Processor : Intel Pentium 4 with 3,2Ghz
- Disk space : 80Gb

What can I do to make those functions work?

Can you help me? Thanks!

 

[Beck]

Hello everyone!

I just got Windows Vista Home Premium on my powerful laptop.

I formatted my drive to NTFS before I installed. Then after the
installation, some drivers like Graphic, Sounds and Network are missing. I
went to my manufacturer's website (TOSHIBA) to install those drivers. It
worked perfectly. But, I cannot use some functions and my computer's rate
is
1.

I cannot use FLIP 3D, the Taskbar program preview (when a program is
reduced
in the taskbar) and Windows Aero.

But, Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor said that I can use those functions.

All the other functions like Games, Media Center and so on works perfectly
instead of Chess Titans which lags a bit.

Here are my system's capacities :

- Graphics : nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 with 64MB of RAM (cannot change
because it's embedded in the motherboard). Display resolution : 1440x900
- Sounds : Realtek Audio
- Memory : 2GB of RAM
- Processor : Intel Pentium 4 with 3,2Ghz
- Disk space : 80Gb

What can I do to make those functions work?

Can you help me? Thanks!

In device manager, go to your graphics card. In the properties does it say
anything about the drivers being WDDM ? You have to have special WDDM
drivers for aero to work (along with other technical abilities of graphics
card).

 

[Guest]

And I forgot to say that the DVD Creator and Windows Movie Maker cannot work
because of my graphics.

 

[Guest]

I looked in the graphic card's properties in the device manager. I can't
found any WDDM in. Where did you find that?

 

[Kerry Brown]

Your graphics card does meet the minimum requirements. It only has 64 MB
RAM.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/capable.mspx

There are reports of some people using registry hacks to get Aero to run
with 64 MB but it is not supported.

 

[MICHAEL]

In device manager, go to your graphics card. In the properties does it say
anything about the drivers being WDDM ? You have to have special WDDM
drivers for aero to work (along with other technical abilities of graphics
card).

The driver for my ATI card at one time had WDDM beside it. I updated
them the other day, and it doesn't say that now. They work fine, Aero
is on. My Performance Score even went up to 4.2 from a 3.8. That's
still my lowest score. But, they seem to work great.

-Michael