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For those of you who are not familiar with the Intel GMA 900, it is compatible with Vista Aero?s basic requirements (32bits per pixel, Pixel Shader 2.0, at least 128MB of VRam, and DirectX 9.0 compatibility). In fact, Window's own Vista Upgrade Advisor, albeit an earlier version, even states that the GMA 900 would run Aero. This has changed in the newer version of the Upgrade Advisor.

The reason? No WDDM driver has been written for the GMA 900. And Intel is refusing to do so. Is there any way one could author such a driver for the GMA 900 (using Intel's written one for its GMA 950 sibling)? This should not be too much of a difficult feat in my mind as those basic requirements of Aero I had earlier pointed out are supported by the GMA 900. If I'm not mistaken, there are tons and tons are laptops out there from late 2003 till early this year mid-2006 being sold with Intel GMA 900 as a graphic option. Heck, Dell is still shipping laptops with them.

If anyone should shed some light on this issue, I'd be really more than thankful. Cheers.

EDIT:> Can a mod please rename the title's 'vist' to 'aero'. Thanks:))

for aero you need Pixel Shader 2.0, GMA 900 doesn't support it

http://www.intel.com/design/graphics/gma900/

Look under High-performance 3D.

I'd also like to have Glass on my Vaio as well.

Radish?

  • 7 months later...

what a joke intel...a card that can play every 3D game just fine can't run aero??? I could maybe understand if this was just another random video card that was 3 years old and only sold into the thousands, but this card is in a million different laptops, and there is no way to upgrade it (because I would upgrade to some card other than intel so fast it would make their piece of crap card's head spin)...so cut us a break and let us choose whether our laptops can run aero decently or not.

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