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Which graphics card for Aero?



 
 
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Old January 27th 07, 11:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
rOy cOOrne
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Default Which graphics card for Aero?


"SAM-R" wrote:

... The Vista DVD supports Aero with the 5000 Series Video Cards and
a lot of people bought them because they were inexpensive. With the
release of the 97.46 Drivers, Nvidia dropped support for Aero in the
5000 Series Cards. Maybe they will drop support for the 6000 Series
as well.

....

I understand that nobody prevents me from continuing to use a driver
earlier
than 97.46 for a series 5000 nVidia card!


Roy

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Old January 28th 07, 03:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
JW
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Default Which graphics card for Aero?

Since the current RTM release of Vista suports the 5xxx family of cards with
Aero (if the card has 128 of onboard memory)I expect that that a future
NVIDIA Vista Beta or RTM release will also.
"Roy Coorne" wrote in message
...

"SAM-R" wrote:

... The Vista DVD supports Aero with the 5000 Series Video Cards and a
lot of people bought them because they were inexpensive. With the release
of the 97.46 Drivers, Nvidia dropped support for Aero in the 5000 Series
Cards. Maybe they will drop support for the 6000 Series as well.

...

I understand that nobody prevents me from continuing to use a driver
earlier
than 97.46 for a series 5000 nVidia card!


Roy



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Old January 29th 07, 12:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Robert Firth
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Default Which graphics card for Aero?

Except 64mb is the minimum required. 128mb is the more the minimum
recommended. I could run it on my ATI mobility radeon x300 w/ 64mb of
memory, 512mb of system memory. Of course, I've upgraded system memory since
then, but Aero works fine on that configuration.

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"JW" wrote in message
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Aero only requires a graphics card with 128MB of memory. My onboard Intel
graphics chip with up to its max of 128MB of memory allocated works fine
with Aero. It did not work when I had onl 64MB allocated.

"CJM" wrote in message
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"Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" wrote in
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Look at any new graphics card.. 256mb is good..



Yeah, even a 256Mb X1300 or 7300 will be more than enough for Aero
Glass/Dvds




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Old January 29th 07, 02:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
JW
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Default Which graphics card for Aero?

64 MB was the minimum before RC2 . AFAIK with RC2 and the RTM release the
minimum changed to 128.

"Robert Firth" wrote in message
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Except 64mb is the minimum required. 128mb is the more the minimum
recommended. I could run it on my ATI mobility radeon x300 w/ 64mb of
memory, 512mb of system memory. Of course, I've upgraded system memory
since then, but Aero works fine on that configuration.

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"JW" wrote in message
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Aero only requires a graphics card with 128MB of memory. My onboard Intel
graphics chip with up to its max of 128MB of memory allocated works fine
with Aero. It did not work when I had onl 64MB allocated.

"CJM" wrote in message
...

"Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" wrote in
message ...
Look at any new graphics card.. 256mb is good..



Yeah, even a 256Mb X1300 or 7300 will be more than enough for Aero
Glass/Dvds






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Old January 29th 07, 03:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Graham Hickson
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Default Which graphics card for Aero?

Well I personally have a small system to test out a few networking features,
and surprisingly it runs aero even on its low specs.

They are the following

Intel Celeron D 2.66GHz
1024Mb DDR1 Siemens RAM
nVidia Gefore 6200 (crippled nv44 chip not nv43)
2x 80Gb Western Digital Caviars

Hope this helps since you can pickup old Geforce 6200's for about 20-40 GBP
if you shop around.

"Phil Chapman" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have Windows Vista Ultimate on my PC, but the graphics card does not
support Aero. I'm not interested in playing 3D games - all I want is to
watch DVD films and use Media Centre and Aero features. Can anyone
suggest a suitable AGP graphics card?

My computer has 1280MB RAM and an Asus A7A266 motherboard - I purchased it
in 2001.

Thanks


 




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