Aero support on Intel 915 Cards

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I'm in the same boat as most of you. I'm stuck with this 915 chipset in my HP laptop that I bought last year which isn't working with glass. What really ****es me off is vista's download advisor said my computer is ready for vista premium. So i went out and bought additional RAM just to be safe and picked up vista premium just for aero glass, but those @$$holes lied. I've tried every registry hack out there and it doesn't do a thing. I wonder if I keep experimenting with different wmmds I can find one that works. I tried the 945 wmmd and it gave me the blue screen of death. I've heard an intel lakeport driver may work but i don't know where to find it. Intel had better come up with a driver.

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I'm in the same boat as most of you. I'm stuck with this 915 chipset in my HP laptop that I bought last year which isn't working with glass. What really ****es me off is vista's download advisor said my computer is ready for vista premium. So i went out and bought additional RAM just to be safe and picked up vista premium just for aero glass, but those @$$holes lied. I've tried every registry hack out there and it doesn't do a thing. I wonder if I keep experimenting with different wmmds I can find one that works. I tried the 945 wmmd and it gave me the blue screen of death. I've heard an intel lakeport driver may work but i don't know where to find it. Intel had better come up with a driver.

All attempts to force Glass were removed in RC1.

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I'm in the same boat as most of you. I'm stuck with this 915 chipset in my HP laptop that I bought last year which isn't working with glass. What really ****es me off is vista's download advisor said my computer is ready for vista premium. So i went out and bought additional RAM just to be safe and picked up vista premium just for aero glass, but those @$$holes lied. I've tried every registry hack out there and it doesn't do a thing. I wonder if I keep experimenting with different wmmds I can find one that works. I tried the 945 wmmd and it gave me the blue screen of death. I've heard an intel lakeport driver may work but i don't know where to find it. Intel had better come up with a driver.

i know how you feel- ive got an hp laptop with intel 915 too. I'm sure I would get the answer no but even still, intel haven't even got the courtesy to reply.

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roadgeek9

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i know how you feel- ive got an hp laptop with intel 915 too. I'm sure I would get the answer no but even still, intel haven't even got the courtesy to reply.

This is all sad how I have had the final release of Windows Vista before January 30. I am a highway engineer for PennDOT and not an MSDN subscriber. But, my uncle, who is an IT Manager in Philadelphia has an MSDN subscription, so I use that. Anyway, I have the HP Pavilion dv1000, that I bought July 30, 2005, and it can't support glass. My desktop has a $40 graphics card that I bought from www.newegg.com, and it supports glass. But, my $1250 laptop can't support it. Yet, my self-built desktop, which I paid $400 for all of the parts, can support glass. That is so f***** up!

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meh...its kinda sad...its like : "We do help you resolve things"

bad thing is...their only friendly and helpfull till u buy their product,after u bought it they dont give a nut anymore.

its whats happening now,since they sold all the 915 they wanted,they dont care about us anymore,and thinks of the things that should be sold in the future like 945 + .

Would love to see a world that isnt "money addicted"...and everything would come from deep inside and not searching for getting rich.

besides im sure that if my 915 can handle all the games i played,third party theme programs that had many more transparency and glass stuff...it can handle aero.

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What's really sad about Intel's driver support is that even their drivers for the 945 chipset (under XP or Vista) don't really support everything that they say they do. Case in point: the Desperate Housewives game only lists a 64MB DirectX 9 compatible card as a requirement. You only find out after trying to install it and doing some research that the GMA 950, although meeting those requirements, doesn't work with the game, supposedly because the Intel drivers don't support certain things that the game needs. I mean, come on, this is not exactly a high-end FPS game we are talking about here.

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What's really sad about Intel's driver support is that even their drivers for the 945 chipset (under XP or Vista) don't really support everything that they say they do. Case in point: the Desperate Housewives game only lists a 64MB DirectX 9 compatible card as a requirement. You only find out after trying to install it and doing some research that the GMA 950, although meeting those requirements, doesn't work with the game, supposedly because the Intel drivers don't support certain things that the game needs. I mean, come on, this is not exactly a high-end FPS game we are talking about here.

Intel is a bunch of a**holes anyway.

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