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Will an nVidia GeForce Go 7400 be ok to run Vista in Aero Glass mode when it is released or do we still not know?
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Vista GPU Requirement
- Thread starter Minority
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Just managed to find this: http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/technology_vista_home.html
Anyone want to confirm whether this means it will support Aero Glass or not?
Anyone want to confirm whether this means it will support Aero Glass or not?
Soldato
i think that list means that the card will have driver support, dont know if the card will support all of the graphical features of vista though
Vista requirements are essentially just a DX9 compatible card with appropriate VDDM drivers written for it. And 64Mb of video RAM.
An fx5200 will be fine (as the nvidia site says). I have Glass running perfectly on a Radeon 9600SE (which, to all intents and purposes, is rubbish), and on my laptop's X600.
An fx5200 will be fine (as the nvidia site says). I have Glass running perfectly on a Radeon 9600SE (which, to all intents and purposes, is rubbish), and on my laptop's X600.
Soldato
DX9 PCI-E card + as much GDRAM as possible.
I think it's been blown all out of proportion. By no means is Vista hard on the graphics card. Far from it. It just needs it to render translucencies, sparkle effects, simple shader effects. Also since every window on a Vista Glass desktop is stored as a graphics texture, it helps to have lots of memory on the graphics card. I'd say 128MB is minimum, but it will still run on 64MB but not very well.
I think it's been blown all out of proportion. By no means is Vista hard on the graphics card. Far from it. It just needs it to render translucencies, sparkle effects, simple shader effects. Also since every window on a Vista Glass desktop is stored as a graphics texture, it helps to have lots of memory on the graphics card. I'd say 128MB is minimum, but it will still run on 64MB but not very well.
So will it or won't it run Aero Glass?
It has 128MB RAM by the way.
It has 128MB RAM by the way.
From the nVidia site:
"NVIDIA offers a complete top-to-bottom line up of NVIDIA® GeForce™ graphics processing units (GPUs) that will take full advantage of the new Windows Vista features and functionality when the final OS is released."
So, as they say your card is Vista Ready (meaning they've written the drivers for it), then yes. Aero Glass should run fine. 128Mb is plenty of RAM - it runs fine on my laptop's X600 with 128Mb.
"NVIDIA offers a complete top-to-bottom line up of NVIDIA® GeForce™ graphics processing units (GPUs) that will take full advantage of the new Windows Vista features and functionality when the final OS is released."
So, as they say your card is Vista Ready (meaning they've written the drivers for it), then yes. Aero Glass should run fine. 128Mb is plenty of RAM - it runs fine on my laptop's X600 with 128Mb.
Thanks, I needed to make sure as I would be quite annoyed if my new laptop (on order) wouldn't be able to run Vista when it comes out.