I have a 128Mb nVidia GeForce FX 5500 ... and it has WDDM next to it in the
display properties you suggest.
I also have 1.5Gb RAM.
Any other suggestions??
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
> Thats because you are running a Video card that does not support the Windows
> AERO Glass theme.
> 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, it's 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. The amount of Video
> RAM also determines the resolution size your Display can use.
>
> To find out if your card supports AERO, click Start > Control Panel > (set
> to Classic View) > double click Device Manager > expand Display Adapters >
> if your card does not have (WDDM) beside it, its not supported.
> --
> Andre
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> "Nick Sharpley" <NickSharpley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2650EC74-B9B7-4427-B32D-699956611280@microsoft.com...
> > Hi ... I have performed a few installations of Beta 2 now ... and on one I
> > find this setting is greyed out and I cannot enable it.
> >
> > I have just installed Beta 2 on my laptop and not only is this setting
> > enabled, but I can change it as well ...
> >
> > Any ideas why it would be greyed out and switched off by default???
> >
> > Naturally I am in the Admin group so perms should not be the problem.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Nick
>
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