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If you had an NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, how was/is your experience with it in Vista? Is the card slow for Aero Glass or does it do fine? At what resolutions does it start to get slow if it's not right off the bat? Thanks.

At the moment, you won't really get "fast" because Vista isn't optimised. However, if you check out the Nvidia website here, there are Forceware available for the 5308 build - just select your model and have a look.
www.nvidia.com
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--- Original message follows --- "Travis King" wrote in message

If you had an NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, how was/is your experience with it in Vista? Is the card slow for Aero Glass or does it do fine? At what resolutions does it start to get slow if it's not right off the bat? Thanks.

Travis; I have that card, a gift from someone who wanted to be sure I had a card to test Windows Vista. I have the resolution is set to 1024 x 768 and 32 bit color.
It seems to work well with the new drivers that Zack refers. I have not tried other resolutions as of yet.
I currently have Build 5308, I never had good drivers in the previous build.
FS 2004 seems to work well.
-- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org
"Travis King" wrote in message

If you had an NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, how was/is your experience with it in Vista? Is the card slow for Aero Glass or does it do fine? At what resolutions does it start to get slow if it's not right off the bat? Thanks.

I'll be running the card at around 1280x1024 most of the time. "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote in message

Travis; I have that card, a gift from someone who wanted to be sure I had a card to test Windows Vista. I have the resolution is set to 1024 x 768 and 32 bit color.
It seems to work well with the new drivers that Zack refers. I have not tried other resolutions as of yet.
I currently have Build 5308, I never had good drivers in the previous build.
FS 2004 seems to work well.
-- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org
"Travis King" wrote in message If you had an NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, how was/is your experience with it in Vista? Is the card slow for Aero Glass or does it do fine? At what resolutions does it start to get slow if it's not right off the bat? Thanks.

Zack, I bet you're thinking in the back of your mind that my questions are repititious, since you've addressed a similar question before, but I'm trying to get more opinions because if I get lots of people saying the FX5500 worked fine with them, I will likely get one, but if I get people that say it runs slower than it should with it, then I'll get something better, but I'd just not like to spend a lot more money for a better video card if Aero Glass will run almost if not just as well on a cheaper card. I'm also keeping an eye on GeForce 6200's, 6600's, and 6800's on ebay if I can snag one cheap enough. I will make sure that I get a video card with 256MB of VRAM. "Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message

At the moment, you won't really get "fast" because Vista isn't optimised. However, if you check out the Nvidia website here, there are Forceware available for the 5308 build - just select your model and have a look.
www.nvidia.com
-- Zack Whittaker Microsoft Beta (Windows Server R2 Beta Mentor) » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: http://msblog.resdev.net » ZackNET Forum: www.zacknet.co.uk/forum » VistaBase: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, mother or cat. Let's be clear on that one!
--- Original message follows --- "Travis King" wrote in message If you had an NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, how was/is your experience with it in Vista? Is the card slow for Aero Glass or does it do fine? At what resolutions does it start to get slow if it's not right off the bat? Thanks.

I won an NVIDIA GeForce FX5600 tonight. "Travis King" wrote in message

I'll be running the card at around 1280x1024 most of the time. "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote in message Travis; I have that card, a gift from someone who wanted to be sure I had a card to test Windows Vista. I have the resolution is set to 1024 x 768 and 32 bit color.
It seems to work well with the new drivers that Zack refers. I have not tried other resolutions as of yet.
I currently have Build 5308, I never had good drivers in the previous build.
FS 2004 seems to work well.
-- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org
"Travis King" wrote in message If you had an NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, how was/is your experience with it in Vista? Is the card slow for Aero Glass or does it do fine? At what resolutions does it start to get slow if it's not right off the bat? Thanks.

Travis; Well it is now elementary. You use it regardless what anyone else thinks and decide if it fits your needs. Congratulations.
-- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org
"Travis King" wrote in message >I won an NVIDIA GeForce FX5600 tonight.

Travis, don't get any sub-x500 NVIDIA cards. They just don't deliver well in Aero Glass, espcially for resolutions starting from 1280 x 768.
GF 6600 is a good starting point in my opinion, for those resolutions.
5xxx is good for 1024 x 768 and up to 1280 x 768
I say this because you got to count the reality, not the jsut the fantasy. Running Aero Glass on 30 FPS, so what? What about thw WPF-hungry programs?
Think of WPF programs as DirectX games, but just a little bit less hungry than Doom III or whatever hit game that's out there.
regards.
-- Nicholas...
"Overclock Your Life, Then The World" "Travis King" wrote in message

Zack, I bet you're thinking in the back of your mind that my questions are repititious, since you've addressed a similar question before, but I'm trying to get more opinions because if I get lots of people saying the FX5500 worked fine with them, I will likely get one, but if I get people that say it runs slower than it should with it, then I'll get something better, but I'd just not like to spend a lot more money for a better video card if Aero Glass will run almost if not just as well on a cheaper card. I'm also keeping an eye on GeForce 6200's, 6600's, and 6800's on ebay if I can snag one cheap enough. I will make sure that I get a video card with 256MB of VRAM. "Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message At the moment, you won't really get "fast" because Vista isn't optimised. However, if you check out the Nvidia website here, there are Forceware available for the 5308 build - just select your model and have a look.
www.nvidia.com
-- Zack Whittaker Microsoft Beta (Windows Server R2 Beta Mentor) » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: http://msblog.resdev.net » ZackNET Forum: www.zacknet.co.uk/forum » VistaBase: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, mother or cat. Let's be clear on that one!
--- Original message follows --- "Travis King" wrote in message If you had an NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, how was/is your experience with it in Vista? Is the card slow for Aero Glass or does it do fine? At what resolutions does it start to get slow if it's not right off the bat? Thanks.

Congratulations!
-- Nicholas...
"Overclock Your Life, Then The World" "Travis King" wrote in message

I won an NVIDIA GeForce FX5600 tonight. "Travis King" wrote in message I'll be running the card at around 1280x1024 most of the time. "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote in message Travis; I have that card, a gift from someone who wanted to be sure I had a card to test Windows Vista. I have the resolution is set to 1024 x 768 and 32 bit color.
It seems to work well with the new drivers that Zack refers. I have not tried other resolutions as of yet.
I currently have Build 5308, I never had good drivers in the previous build.
FS 2004 seems to work well.
-- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org
"Travis King" wrote in message If you had an NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, how was/is your experience with it in Vista? Is the card slow for Aero Glass or does it do fine? At what resolutions does it start to get slow if it's not right off the bat? Thanks.

Nooo of course not :o) It's just that at the moment, I don't know a single person who's got Glass running perfectly and it being so smooth yet - it will end up being fixed, it's just a performance thingy.
-- Zack Whittaker Microsoft Beta (Windows Server R2 Beta Mentor) » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: http://msblog.resdev.net » ZackNET Forum: www.zacknet.co.uk/forum » VistaBase: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, mother or cat. Let's be clear on that one!
--- Original message follows --- "Travis King" wrote in message

Zack, I bet you're thinking in the back of your mind that my questions are repititious, since you've addressed a similar question before, but I'm trying to get more opinions because if I get lots of people saying the FX5500 worked fine with them, I will likely get one, but if I get people that say it runs slower than it should with it, then I'll get something better, but I'd just not like to spend a lot more money for a better video card if Aero Glass will run almost if not just as well on a cheaper card. I'm also keeping an eye on GeForce 6200's, 6600's, and 6800's on ebay if I can snag one cheap enough. I will make sure that I get a video card with 256MB of VRAM. "Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message At the moment, you won't really get "fast" because Vista isn't optimised. However, if you check out the Nvidia website here, there are Forceware available for the 5308 build - just select your model and have a look.
www.nvidia.com
-- Zack Whittaker Microsoft Beta (Windows Server R2 Beta Mentor) » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: http://msblog.resdev.net » ZackNET Forum: www.zacknet.co.uk/forum » VistaBase: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, mother or cat. Let's be clear on that one!
--- Original message follows --- "Travis King" wrote in message If you had an NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, how was/is your experience with it in Vista? Is the card slow for Aero Glass or does it do fine? At what resolutions does it start to get slow if it's not right off the bat? Thanks.

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:43:58 -0000, Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor) wrote:

Nooo of course not :o) It's just that at the moment, I don't know a single person who's got Glass running perfectly and it being so smooth yet - it will end up being fixed, it's just a performance thingy.

Seems to work okay for me at the moment, 3.2Ghz HT P4, ATI X800XT card, 2Gb fast RAM. -- Tekguru (Daron Brewood) MS-MVP/Mobile Devices
Webmaster: UKs largest Pocket PC Site http://www.4WinMobile.com

I believe it will fit my needs. (And if not, I only have myself to blame.) The most gaming I do is Quake 3 Arena, and my current NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200 does that very well as it is - even at 1600x1200 at the highest quality. (The maximum my monitor supports.) It does get just a bit on the shaky side at 1600x1200 at the highest quality when you're around LOTS of reflections. It runs very smooth at 1024x768 no matter how much reflection is going on the screen. That card has a fill rate of 700 versus the 1300 the FX5600 has. While I don't expect graphics performance to double, I do expect a noticeable increase. (Perhaps I will be able to run at 1600x1200 with no slow-downs.) "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote in message

Travis; Well it is now elementary. You use it regardless what anyone else thinks and decide if it fits your needs. Congratulations.
-- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org
"Travis King" wrote in message I won an NVIDIA GeForce FX5600 tonight.

I wanted to check out Moviemaker on Vista, but my 64MB Radeon wasn't up to snuff.
So I've installed a 256MB Radeon 9250.
I am rated ONE in performance on this machine.
But I still can't launch moviemaker because of hardware acceleration problems.
What are we gonna need here?

That whole rating can be kind of confusing but if you read the help you will see that one is really bad. The higher the rating the better. My machine was rated a one before I upgraded to a radeon xt1300 now I'm like a 3.3 or so. I have a 2.8 ghz 1.5 gig ram 60 gig hd. All rated between 3-4 . You might want to check which component it draging it down to a 1. Hope that helps
"Bill Condie" wrote:

I wanted to check out Moviemaker on Vista, but my 64MB Radeon wasn't up to snuff.
So I've installed a 256MB Radeon 9250.
I am rated ONE in performance on this machine.
But I still can't launch moviemaker because of hardware acceleration problems.
What are we gonna need here?

Thanks . . . gotta do more homework. I think I improved to a ONE and thought I was home free :-
"St.Cliar" wrote:

That whole rating can be kind of confusing but if you read the help you will see that one is really bad. The higher the rating the better. My machine was rated a one before I upgraded to a radeon xt1300 now I'm like a 3.3 or so. I have a 2.8 ghz 1.5 gig ram 60 gig hd. All rated between 3-4 . You might want to check which component it draging it down to a 1. Hope that helps
"Bill Condie" wrote:
I wanted to check out Moviemaker on Vista, but my 64MB Radeon wasn't up to snuff.
So I've installed a 256MB Radeon 9250.
I am rated ONE in performance on this machine.
But I still can't launch moviemaker because of hardware acceleration problems.
What are we gonna need here?

go up to atleast a 9800 or higher.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Bill Condie" wrote in message I wanted to check out Moviemaker on Vista, but my 64MB Radeon wasn't up to snuff.
So I've installed a 256MB Radeon 9250.
I am rated ONE in performance on this machine.
But I still can't launch moviemaker because of hardware acceleration problems.
What are we gonna need here?

"mikeyhsd" wrote in message

go up to atleast a 9800 or higher.

That's really not true.
My ATI 9700 128MB Laptop card works great.
Consistently rates 4+ in the ignorant ratings scheme.
Had an initial rating of 3.7. Once I installed the ATI beta drivers it went up to 4.2.
-Michael

Condie, You ideally should go with a card that supports the windows display driver model (WDDM compliant) I suggest with ATI you should be at least running a 9600 series card.
"MICHAEL" wrote:

"mikeyhsd" wrote in message
go up to atleast a 9800 or higher.
That's really not true.
My ATI 9700 128MB Laptop card works great.
Consistently rates 4+ in the ignorant ratings scheme.
Had an initial rating of 3.7. Once I installed the ATI beta drivers it went up to 4.2.
-Michael

Looks like I made a Bad Buy :-(
Thanks all for the input
"Chris {MSVB Beta Support}" wrote:

Condie, You ideally should go with a card that supports the windows display driver model (WDDM compliant) I suggest with ATI you should be at least running a 9600 series card.
"MICHAEL" wrote:
"mikeyhsd" wrote in message
go up to atleast a 9800 or higher.
That's really not true.
My ATI 9700 128MB Laptop card works great.
Consistently rates 4+ in the ignorant ratings scheme.
Had an initial rating of 3.7. Once I installed the ATI beta drivers it went up to 4.2.
-Michael