GLASS working on my GEFORCE 4 MX Go 32MB


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wow

i modified some registry keys and glass is now working on my geforce 4 mx 32mb

O_O

I get all the animations including the new flip, the preview in the taskbar..it doesnt run slow, it runs OK.. FLIP 3D is the only thing that does not work

Doesn't it use pixel shaders? :blink: I'm confused lol

Well here's a screenshot to go with the post :D

EDIT: Flip 3d now works =] (and very fast)

i think this is amazing, for a 32mb video card

lol

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my understanding is that you cant even do glass with a geforce 4. You need a shader model 2.0 compliant card. shader 2.0 compliance doesnt start until geforce fx series on the nvidia range or radeon 9600 and higher on the ati range. I *think* thats right.

I'm assuming it would be possible to force direct x to use a software rasterizer for the glass effects on a lower than a sm2.0 card, but it would be highly cpu dependant and run like arse.

EDIT: i just looked a little closer at the glass screenshot and thats not the true glass. Thats simple trancparancy without the realtime blurring. Thats more like psuedo glass. Nothing that needs shaders. But not the whole glass experiance.

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I happen to have a GeForce 4 MX4000 128mb and Vista 5219 Installed (and activated) - If you could post details on how you did it that would be great! kthx

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Pixel shaders are not being used. If you take a closer look at the parts which *look* like they've been "blurred", they haven't at all.

Its just alpha (i think)..

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Pixel shaders are not being used. If you take a closer look at the parts which *look* like they've been "blurred", they haven't at all.

Just list alpha (i think)..

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see now i was editing as you posted :p

its still a cool hack for those that cant run the whole glass experiance

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yeah, it doesnt look blurred at all, but i think it's still nice since now i can user aero glass with my notebook (that cant be upgraded to a better video card) :)

it also looks like they're improving "aero express", i couldnt make it work with previous versions of vista

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I happen to have a GeForce 4 MX4000 128mb and Vista 5219 Installed (and activated) - If you could post details on how you did it that would be great! kthx

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You have to activate yours? I don't think my copy has activation

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So are you going to share with us how you did it? :unsure:

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ok

ALL I did was put this into notepad, and apply it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DWM]

"UseAlternateButtons"=dword:00000000

"Blur"=dword:00000001

"Animations"=dword:00000001

"Glass"=dword:00000001

"AnimationsShiftKey"=dword:00000001

"EnableMachineCheck"=dword:00000000

thats it, logged off and BAM, glass =]

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so, where's tha glass? Isn't glass pretty and clear? :blink:

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Does using those enable it all, or do you have to apply the theme?

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In task manager kill uxss.exe, it will automatically restart the process, and you should have glass enabled :)

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tried it and didnt like it because after i logged off and on the icons started to flicker whenever the mouse was pointed to it. The window started to flicker.

so i disabled it and i guess i will just wait till NV releases updated version of their LDDM drivers.

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