I tried to buy an AGP video card so I can get aero, so I bought something
cheap that is in the vista compatibility hardware list (evga nvidia geforce
fx 5700 ultra 128M)

After I installed the card, I found that aero is not supported using the
built-in vista driver. If I use the nvidia driver, the text in the vista
hold 'em game flashes continuously. Still no aero.

Where can I find a list of video card that supports vista aero and has a
stable driver?

Does your system have 1GB of Ram. If no it will not run Aero.
Have you upgraded to the latest Vista driver release for your 5700 from the
Nvidia Website?
"james" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>I tried to buy an AGP video card so I can get aero, so I bought something
>cheap that is in the vista compatibility hardware list (evga nvidia geforce
>fx 5700 ultra 128M)
>
> After I installed the card, I found that aero is not supported using the
> built-in vista driver. If I use the nvidia driver, the text in the vista
> hold 'em game flashes continuously. Still no aero.
>
> Where can I find a list of video card that supports vista aero and has a
> stable driver?
>
>[/color]

Wow. That's a very old video card and very pre-Aero. The current nVidia
series are in the 9000's. The minimum cards that will reliably support Aero
are the 6000 series for nVidia, but even those may have some performance
issues. I personally would recommend nothing lower than the 7000 series.

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"james" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%23cvm8bZTJHA.5568@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I tried to buy an AGP video card so I can get aero, so I bought something
>cheap that is in the vista compatibility hardware list (evga nvidia geforce
>fx 5700 ultra 128M)
>
> After I installed the card, I found that aero is not supported using the
> built-in vista driver. If I use the nvidia driver, the text in the vista
> hold 'em game flashes continuously. Still no aero.
>
> Where can I find a list of video card that supports vista aero and has a
> stable driver?
>
>[/color]

run your windows experience index with the new card.
it will show you which component is holding your computer back. and if
it meets the minimum requirements to run aero. you need a base score of
3 for aero.

here is the system requirements for the graphics card to run aero,



- Supports a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver
- Has a DirectX 9-class graphics processor unit (GPU) that supports
Pixel Shader 2.0
- Supports 32 bits per pixel
- Passes the Windows Aero acceptance test in the Windows Driver Kit
(WDK)


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[url]http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us[/url]
lol go here!







"james" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:#cvm8bZTJHA.5568@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> I tried to buy an AGP video card so I can get aero, so I bought something
> cheap that is in the vista compatibility hardware list (evga nvidia
> geforce fx 5700 ultra 128M)
>
> After I installed the card, I found that aero is not supported using the
> built-in vista driver. If I use the nvidia driver, the text in the vista
> hold 'em game flashes continuously. Still no aero.
>
> Where can I find a list of video card that supports vista aero and has a
> stable driver?
>
>[/color]

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"Hot-text" <hot-text********.com> wrote in message
news:eLPa75fTJHA.1960@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> [url]http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us[/url]
> lol go here!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "james" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:#cvm8bZTJHA.5568@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> I tried to buy an AGP video card so I can get aero, so I bought something
>> cheap that is in the vista compatibility hardware list (evga nvidia
>> geforce fx 5700 ultra 128M)
>>
>> After I installed the card, I found that aero is not supported using the
>> built-in vista driver. If I use the nvidia driver, the text in the vista
>> hold 'em game flashes continuously. Still no aero.
>>
>> Where can I find a list of video card that supports vista aero and has a
>> stable driver?
>>
>>[/color][/color]

james wrote:[color=blue]
> I tried to buy an AGP video card so I can get aero, so I bought
> something cheap that is in the vista compatibility hardware list (evga
> nvidia geforce fx 5700 ultra 128M)
>
> After I installed the card, I found that aero is not supported using the
> built-in vista driver. If I use the nvidia driver, the text in the vista
> hold 'em game flashes continuously. Still no aero.
>
> Where can I find a list of video card that supports vista aero and has a
> stable driver?
>
>[/color]
I had a similar problem with a geforce 6200.
Went to the help menu and did the Aero troubleshooting
to enable all the proper check boxes in several different screens
to make it work.

Another thing is to make sure you go thru the process to update the
windows experience index. Seems that you can't turn on Aero if the
old experience index isn't big enough. Do this first.
mike

"serpentracer" <serpentracer.3jcowb@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in
message news:serpentracer.3jcowb@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com...[color=blue]
>
> run your windows experience index with the new card.
> it will show you which component is holding your computer back. and if
> it meets the minimum requirements to run aero. you need a base score of
> 3 for aero.
>
> here is the system requirements for the graphics card to run aero,
>
>
>
> - Supports a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver
> - Has a DirectX 9-class graphics processor unit (GPU) that supports
> Pixel Shader 2.0
> - Supports 32 bits per pixel
> - Passes the Windows Aero acceptance test in the Windows Driver Kit
> (WDK)
>
>
> --
> serpentracer
> Posted via [url]http://www.vistaheads.com[/url]
>[/color]

I'm not sure what you mean by "base score", but if it's the score that
appears in Welcome Center as the Windows Experience Index (WEI) (the lowest
score of the 5), you're not correct. I'm typing this on an older laptop with
a WEI of 2.0, and Aero is working just fine.

PvdG42;1087581 Wrote:[color=blue]
>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "base score", but if it's the score that
> appears in Welcome Center as the Windows Experience Index (WEI) (the
> lowest
> score of the 5), you're not correct. I'm typing this on an older laptop
> with
> a WEI of 2.0, and Aero is working just fine.[/color]

I'm going by what microsoft says is th Min Requirements for Aero.


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I think you may be only looking at the graphic card requirements.
The following link contains all of the Vista Aero requirements including
ones such as the requirement for 1GB of Ram memory.

[url]http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/c33fe91a-9e6f-41f4-ae82-3ed2d5fa2fbf1033.mspx[/url]


"serpentracer" <serpentracer.3jnrk2@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in
message news:serpentracer.3jnrk2@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com...[color=blue]
>
> PvdG42;1087581 Wrote:[color=green]
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "base score", but if it's the score that
>> appears in Welcome Center as the Windows Experience Index (WEI) (the
>> lowest
>> score of the 5), you're not correct. I'm typing this on an older laptop
>> with
>> a WEI of 2.0, and Aero is working just fine.[/color]
>
> I'm going by what microsoft says is th Min Requirements for Aero.
>
>
> --
> serpentracer
> Posted via [url]http://www.vistaheads.com[/url]
>[/color]

Curious;1088867 Wrote:[color=blue]
> I think you may be only looking at the graphic card requirements.
> The following link contains all of the Vista Aero requirements
> including
> ones such as the requirement for 1GB of Ram memory.
>
> [url]http://tinyurl.com/6fyo52[/url]
>
>[/color]


either way you look at it, a base score of 1-2 isn't typically powerful
enough to run all of aero's functions properly or at all.

like I said, mine had a base score of 3. and it still wasn't enough to
play the simple games vista comes with. they weren't even available for
playing. until I installed the new card. it limits what you can do with
aero based on the base score of your hardware. yeah if you have one gig
of memory, the base score is going to be lower. I had a one gig set of
memory. it scored a 3.4. I put 2 gigs of memory of the same speed in,
the base memory score went to 5.7.
I'm not missing any points. that's how it works.
if you have a base score of 1-3 you are not able to run all of aero's
functions fully. I thought I was too. but I was def wrong. aero
isn't just that feature that lets you flip through the screens.


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hello testing

serpentracer;1089416 Wrote:[color=blue]
> either way you look at it, a base score of 1-2 isn't typically powerful
> enough to run all of aero's functions properly or at all.
>
> like I said, mine had a base score of 3. and it still wasn't enough to
> play the simple games vista comes with. they weren't even available for
> playing. until I installed the new card. it limits what you can do with
> aero based on the base score of your hardware. yeah if you have one gig
> of memory, the base score is going to be lower. I had a one gig set of
> memory. it scored a 3.4. I put 2 gigs of memory of the same speed in,
> the base memory score went to 5.7. if you bought the best video card on
> the market and the score went to 6.0 but your memory score is still 3.
> your base score is still going to be 3 thus limiting what aero functions
> you can use.
> I'm not missing any points. that's how it works.
> aero isn't just that feature that lets you flip through the screens.
>
> and some of you need to learn how to quote posts. it's annoying the way
> you guys do it. or am I the only one that sees everyone but my post
> looking like this?[color=green]
> >;ladfljsdfj
> > bla bla bla bla
> >bla bla bla
> >etc bla bla
> >etc etc etc[/color]
>
> it's hard to read like that.
> mine always shows up with a nice box around your comments that seperate
> my post from yours clearly.[/color]


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-double post sorry-


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being cheap cost you twice, now you need a 7000, or 8000 series card



"james" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%23cvm8bZTJHA.5568@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I tried to buy an AGP video card so I can get aero, so I bought something
>cheap that is in the vista compatibility hardware list (evga nvidia geforce
>fx 5700 ultra 128M)
>
> After I installed the card, I found that aero is not supported using the
> built-in vista driver. If I use the nvidia driver, the text in the vista
> hold 'em game flashes continuously. Still no aero.
>
> Where can I find a list of video card that supports vista aero and has a
> stable driver?
>
>[/color]