Hmmm, that is an interesting tidbit, why on earth would a 3d accelerated
effect like that depend on system ram..? that is the point of the 128M on the
card one would thinks (as it is "texture space") but i have 3/4 gb of ram,
and memory hog vista (and all recent ms products) may be, that should be
plenty, since my linux 3d accelerated desktop environment (with a bunch of
other services...) uses a grand total of about 100 mb ram.. i never max out
unless i am running windows, then i dont have to run any actual programs to
use up my system mem. vista does it all by itself
but seriously, are you
just running the bundled vista driver? i didnt lose the effects till i did
what nvidia said and "updated" my driver.
as windows wont show you anything like _all_ the changes that are made when
you update a driver, i have no way to know which files are left from the
other version (or reg keys or whatever) apparently there is no "clean" way to
change a video driver and it seems now that i am stuck with a hodgepodge of
oem and ms drivers. (not that the vid driver worked right in the first place)
"Usama Zulfiqar" wrote:
> Dear
>
> I am aslo using Geforce FX5200 but all the aero features are enabled. Make
> sure that you have big RAM. Currently i am using 1 Gb of RAM. My VGA card
> memory is 128 MB. I have seen that when the ram is filled up by the programs
> then the transperancy effect also disappears so this means that visual
> effects also depends upon PC RAM..nothing to do with drivers..these are plug
> and play..
>
> "~Mordjah¿ (Amd64 - Gentoo Linux)" <~Mordjah� (Amd64 - Gentoo
> Linux)@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:96F4E137-0B7F-4A3C-B494-5C315A95EB72@microsoft.com...
> > running the nvidia gforce chipset, fx5200 and a couple of driver issues i
> > think.
> > there are artifacts on boot and login, the desktop *looks* fine, but
> > windows
> > has decided that i dont need the transparencies. they worked on install,
> > but
> > i have tried (as suggested by nvidia) to use their vista driver, but that
> > and
> > the beta xp/2000, AND the stock xp/2000 driver all have the same
> > artifacting,
> > except the nvidia drivers are actually slower, and there are several
> > issues
> > now surrounding the nvidia control panels.
> >
> > short of a reinstall i have been unsucessful in bringing the effects back
> > online, even though i have reverted back to the bundled nvidia driver. is
> > there a controll panel available that will let me over ride what windows
> > thinks is best?
> >
> > saw this in a simlar thread but i get a not found error (just cut'n'paste
> > i
> > have done no research yet.. 'Fixed by running "winstat aurora" from the
> > Run
> > box'
> >
> > sry for length of post.. we are a bit more long winded in the Linux
> > community (my 3d accelerated desktop runs very nicely there ;P )
> >
> > ~Mordjah¿
>
>