I suppose for the same reason that some BIOS's have settings for reserving
ram for the PCI Express slots.
"~Mordjah¿ (Amd64 - Gentoo Linux)"
<MordjahAmd64GentooLinux@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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¿
>>
>>