Yea I have the same problems I am running on a laptop with the card soldered
into the motherboard. I have another laptop running the intel 945 which is
almost identical to the 915 and it runs great with aero so I don't know why
intel thinks it will slow down performance. I think they are trying to
promote their newer cards as well as push new sales. Millions of people are
carrying 915 chipsets and for them not to make a driver is ridiculous. They
don't give us much of a choice here. Settle for Vista basic or get a new
laptop. Pure BS. Since they have already made a formal statement stating
they will not be making drivers, you'll probably be looking for replacemens.
For those of you who don't mind low end laptops without upgradable video
cards, Best buy is having an awesome sale. I found an 15.4 inch HP with amd
turion 64x2 1gb ddr2, 100gb hd preloaded with vista home premium for $649 and
a compaq amd turion 64 1gb ddr2 80gb hd with home premium for $599. both
running nivdia geforce go 6150 288mb shared card. nvidia updates their
drivers often so i'm going with them from now on.

"Pete" wrote:

>
> "Julie" <Julie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AB3B0A06-26DC-4175-A738-64AB9744C5D1@microsoft.com...
> > Since Intel is being ignorant and refusing to create WDDM drivers for the
> > millions of us who have the standard Intel 915 shared 128mb video card,
> > does
> > anyone know a good alternative to getting the aero transparency effects on
> > the border? I'll even take a third party app. Because Lord knows I
> > didn't
> > pay for Home Premium to get stuck with Home Basic. This is really crap,
> > you
> > would think they'd make the driver and we would have the choice of whether
> > we
> > want to run Aero or not. If we're not happy with the performance we'll
> > just
> > disable it. But this way, noone gets to run Aero. I've got a score of
> > 4.0
> > on everything else except for my card because its not WDDM/ LDDM. Anyone
> > also know a way to override the settings and allow Aero to run? I've
> > tried
> > all the regedit cracks for the betas but they don't work. THERE MUST BE A
> > WAY. I swear man, makes me wish I had a mac with all this upgrading bs.
> > No
> > computer can even last 6 months in the world of microsoft.
>
>
> EVERYONE is scrambling to get Vista drivers. People never think ahead.
> In your case it might be better to replace your MB video with a new
> supported card.
>
>
>