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I'm running a Nvidia GeForce Go5100 32MB vid card, and according to some googling it's DX9-compatable.

Does this not mean Aero Glass will run on it? Is it just too old?

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Just because it's DX9 compatible, doesn't mean it will display the Glass effects. The card has to be supported by the LDDM drivers.

Snip snip from the Connect site...

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 (LDDM)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600XT (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200SE (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900XT (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra (LDDM)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE (LDDM)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700VE (LDDM)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100 (LDDM)

Those are the currently supported LDDM Nvidia cards.

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I'm running a Nvidia GeForce Go5100 32MB vid card, and according to some googling it's DX9-compatable.

Does this not mean Aero Glass will run on it? Is it just too old?

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The fact that you hve a 32mb videocard might be the problem . . .

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The fact that you hve a 32mb videocard might be the problem . . .

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Thats for surly the problem, because i installed on my laptop which has a 64bm card and it dont work for that, so why would you think it would work on a 32 mb card, *LAUGHS*

The Graphics are pretty heavy doody, so go out and buy urself a better card, it will solve alot of head akes in the future ;)

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Thats for surly the problem, because i installed on my laptop which has a 64bm card and it dont work for that, so why would you think it would work on a 32 mb card, *LAUGHS*

The Graphics are pretty heavy doody, so go out and buy urself a better card, it will solve alot of head akes in the future ;)

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Well I would if I could, but this card is imbedded into the motherboard of my laptop and is therefore non-upgradeable...according to the manufacturer, at least. Somehow I don't believe them (Toshiba), but trying to swap it out is probably more trouble than it's worth.

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It's not such a great loss, though.

You'll still be able to run Vista, but without the glassy eyecandy.

To be honest, you can put together a nice Vista-ready desktop system for cheap these days.

If you've got a bit of $$$ floating around, you can build a good system and run Vista on it with all the glass effects, and also run Vista on your laptop, taking advantage of just the functionality. I'm sure you can still make it attractive, though, with custom themes similar to msstyles (I'm assuming Vista *will* run on a 32mb card, but with effects turned off . . . )

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I'm running a Nvidia GeForce Go5100 32MB vid card, and according to some googling it's DX9-compatable.

Does this not mean Aero Glass will run on it? Is it just too old?

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Is that DX9 at the hardware level, or software?

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