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ok, i know these questions have been answered on this site before but i want to get it straight. i have 256 mb mem and 64 mb graphics card. i know i have enough hd space but is it "possible" at all to run vista w/glass
i was so excited that they released the beta that i just went and ordered the disc w/out thinkin that my comp sucks. now, it does run very fast and is clean, so could i poss. get by with my sucky hardware. thanks.

sry its on here twice but it said error when i posted so i tried again
"dale" wrote:

ok, i know these questions have been answered on this site before but i want to get it straight. i have 256 mb mem and 64 mb graphics card. i know i have enough hd space but is it "possible" at all to run vista w/glass
i was so excited that they released the beta that i just went and ordered the disc w/out thinkin that my comp sucks. now, it does run very fast and is clean, so could i poss. get by with my sucky hardware. thanks.

No, you won't be able to run glass.
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "dale" wrote in message

sry its on here twice but it said error when i posted so i tried again
"dale" wrote:
ok, i know these questions have been answered on this site before but i want to get it straight. i have 256 mb mem and 64 mb graphics card. i know i have enough hd space but is it "possible" at all to run vista w/glass
i was so excited that they released the beta that i just went and ordered the disc w/out thinkin that my comp sucks. now, it does run very fast and is clean, so could i poss. get by with my sucky hardware. thanks.

ive read of a few people being able to run glass on theirs, are they just bs-ing, but it would make sense if it did work though bc everything MS says is "recomended" isnt it?
"Jane C" wrote:

No, you won't be able to run glass.
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "dale" wrote in message sry its on here twice but it said error when i posted so i tried again
"dale" wrote:
ok, i know these questions have been answered on this site before but i want to get it straight. i have 256 mb mem and 64 mb graphics card. i know i have enough hd space but is it "possible" at all to run vista w/glass
i was so excited that they released the beta that i just went and ordered the disc w/out thinkin that my comp sucks. now, it does run very fast and is clean, so could i poss. get by with my sucky hardware. thanks.

Have a read here. Download and run the Windows Upgrade Advisor.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "dale" wrote in message

ive read of a few people being able to run glass on theirs, are they just bs-ing, but it would make sense if it did work though bc everything MS says is "recomended" isnt it?
"Jane C" wrote:
No, you won't be able to run glass.
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "dale" wrote in message sry its on here twice but it said error when i posted so i tried again
"dale" wrote:
ok, i know these questions have been answered on this site before but i want to get it straight. i have 256 mb mem and 64 mb graphics card. i know i have enough hd space but is it "possible" at all to run vista w/glass
i was so excited that they released the beta that i just went and ordered the disc w/out thinkin that my comp sucks. now, it does run very fast and is clean, so could i poss. get by with my sucky hardware. thanks.

I don't get the new Windows Vista AERO Glass user interface, why? Windows AERO Glass requires that you have a minimum of 64 MBs video RAM that is Direct X 9 compliant and supports the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM), formerly (LDDM). If your video card does not meet these requirements, its the likely cause why you are not seeing it. For onboard/integrated cards, you need to have 1 GB of dual channel memory installed with 512 MBs of RAM allocated to the system. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"dale" wrote in message

ok, i know these questions have been answered on this site before but i want to get it straight. i have 256 mb mem and 64 mb graphics card. i know i have enough hd space but is it "possible" at all to run vista w/glass
i was so excited that they released the beta that i just went and ordered the disc w/out thinkin that my comp sucks. now, it does run very fast and is clean, so could i poss. get by with my sucky hardware. thanks.

I'm just wondering why the full Direct X 9 pixel shader 2 support etc. is necessary. Novell's XGL project (which as far as I can tell is fairly similar to Aero) achieves some similar 3D effects on the desktop, but runs reasonably on a computer that is over 6 years old! (nVidia GeForce 256 - 32Mb, 256 Mb system RAM, 700MHz Pentium III).
Surely Microsoft can provide at least some of the features of Aero with lower spec machines / graphics cards?
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

I don't get the new Windows Vista AERO Glass user interface, why? Windows AERO Glass requires that you have a minimum of 64 MBs video RAM that is Direct X 9 compliant and supports the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM), formerly (LDDM). If your video card does not meet these requirements, its the likely cause why you are not seeing it. For onboard/integrated cards, you need to have 1 GB of dual channel memory installed with 512 MBs of RAM allocated to the system. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"dale" wrote in message ok, i know these questions have been answered on this site before but i want to get it straight. i have 256 mb mem and 64 mb graphics card. i know i have enough hd space but is it "possible" at all to run vista w/glass
i was so excited that they released the beta that i just went and ordered the disc w/out thinkin that my comp sucks. now, it does run very fast and is clean, so could i poss. get by with my sucky hardware. thanks.

ok, i know these questions have been answered on this site before but i want to get it straight. i have 256 mb mem and 64 mb graphics card. i know i have enough hd space but is it "possible" at all to run vista w/glass
i was so excited that they released the beta that i just went and ordered the disc w/out thinkin that my comp sucks. now, it does run very fast and is clean, so could i poss. get by with my sucky hardware. thanks.