Vista - Video Card For Vista!

OK! I've recently purchased two different video cards from wal-mart,
installed them and tried running vista. the first one, a low end nVidia
GeForce 4000 something or other wouldn't even dare run it! The other one, an
ATI Radieon ran it fine but when it came to the Aero Glass stuff, it was a no
go! After researching the site I discovered that it was because that card
wasn't good enough either. SO.. could someone PLEASE tell me what video card
I should purchase so I can run this damn Beta OS and get EVERYTHING out of
it?!

At this point I'm about ready to send the disc back to Micro$oft and tell
them to shove it up their @ss along with all the money I'm spending trying to
run their stuff!

Thanks in advance! I know you guys and girls will be able to steer me in
the right direction!

Also, could you please respond to twiztedfate006@aol.com so I'm sure to get
the reply! It is MUCH APPRECIATED! Again, thanks in advance!!

Eric

There's a list of cards on Nvidia's site here:

http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html

Video card specs are here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...footnotes.mspx

More general specs here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...y/default.mspx

(Tip of the Day: If you find out what you need before you buy, you'll waste
less money).




"HARD TIMES AHEAD!" <HARD TIMES AHEAD!@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news5FA5DD8-E76A-42E3-96AA-DFD3A9DF40DE@microsoft.com...
> OK! I've recently purchased two different video cards from wal-mart,
> installed them and tried running vista. the first one, a low end nVidia
> GeForce 4000 something or other wouldn't even dare run it! The other one,
> an
> ATI Radieon ran it fine but when it came to the Aero Glass stuff, it was a
> no
> go! After researching the site I discovered that it was because that card
> wasn't good enough either. SO.. could someone PLEASE tell me what video
> card
> I should purchase so I can run this damn Beta OS and get EVERYTHING out of
> it?!
>
> At this point I'm about ready to send the disc back to Micro$oft and tell
> them to shove it up their @ss along with all the money I'm spending trying
> to
> run their stuff!
>
> Thanks in advance! I know you guys and girls will be able to steer me in
> the right direction!
>
> Also, could you please respond to twiztedfate006@aol.com so I'm sure to
> get
> the reply! It is MUCH APPRECIATED! Again, thanks in advance!!
>
> Eric

ATI Radeon 9550 works just fine here.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

"HARD TIMES AHEAD!" <HARD TIMES AHEAD!@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news5FA5DD8-E76A-42E3-96AA-DFD3A9DF40DE@microsoft.com...
> OK! I've recently purchased two different video cards from wal-mart,
> installed them and tried running vista. the first one, a low end nVidia
> GeForce 4000 something or other wouldn't even dare run it! The other one,
> an
> ATI Radieon ran it fine but when it came to the Aero Glass stuff, it was a
> no
> go! After researching the site I discovered that it was because that card
> wasn't good enough either. SO.. could someone PLEASE tell me what video
> card
> I should purchase so I can run this damn Beta OS and get EVERYTHING out of
> it?!
>
> At this point I'm about ready to send the disc back to Micro$oft and tell
> them to shove it up their @ss along with all the money I'm spending trying
> to
> run their stuff!
>
> Thanks in advance! I know you guys and girls will be able to steer me in
> the right direction!
>
> Also, could you please respond to twiztedfate006@aol.com so I'm sure to
> get
> the reply! It is MUCH APPRECIATED! Again, thanks in advance!!
>
> Eric

"Alan Simpson" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news2F4409B-EA5E-41C8-BE40-C22155AF2EBB@microsoft.com...
> (Tip of the Day: If you find out what you need before you buy, you'll
> waste less money).
>
>
>

That's gonna bruise up...

Had a Matrox 256 Parhelia, wouldn't do Aero, bought an ATI X700, does it
well.
$100.00 Canadian from Future Shop

Doug

"HARD TIMES AHEAD!" <HARD TIMES AHEAD!@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news5FA5DD8-E76A-42E3-96AA-DFD3A9DF40DE@microsoft.com...
> OK! I've recently purchased two different video cards from wal-mart,
> installed them and tried running vista. the first one, a low end nVidia
> GeForce 4000 something or other wouldn't even dare run it! The other one,
> an
> ATI Radieon ran it fine but when it came to the Aero Glass stuff, it was a
> no
> go! After researching the site I discovered that it was because that card
> wasn't good enough either. SO.. could someone PLEASE tell me what video
> card
> I should purchase so I can run this damn Beta OS and get EVERYTHING out of
> it?!
>
> At this point I'm about ready to send the disc back to Micro$oft and tell
> them to shove it up their @ss along with all the money I'm spending trying
> to
> run their stuff!
>
> Thanks in advance! I know you guys and girls will be able to steer me in
> the right direction!
>
> Also, could you please respond to twiztedfate006@aol.com so I'm sure to
> get
> the reply! It is MUCH APPRECIATED! Again, thanks in advance!!
>
> Eric

Seemed like a pretty good tip at the time. Albeit a bit on the obvious side
to some of us. At any rate, ya gotta admit, it's a much better strategy than
yelling at Microsoft after the fact ;-)


"Mark D. VandenBeg" <mvan103@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eN5NJeBuGHA.3552@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
> "Alan Simpson" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
> news2F4409B-EA5E-41C8-BE40-C22155AF2EBB@microsoft.com...
>> (Tip of the Day: If you find out what you need before you buy, you'll
>> waste less money).
>>
>>
>>
>
> That's gonna bruise up...
>

Vista works fine on my NVidea 5200 card after I downloaded and installed the
nVidea Beta Vista driver (88.61) which after installation shows up as
version 8.8.6.1.

"HARD TIMES AHEAD!" <HARD TIMES AHEAD!@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news5FA5DD8-E76A-42E3-96AA-DFD3A9DF40DE@microsoft.com...
> OK! I've recently purchased two different video cards from wal-mart,
> installed them and tried running vista. the first one, a low end nVidia
> GeForce 4000 something or other wouldn't even dare run it! The other one,
> an
> ATI Radieon ran it fine but when it came to the Aero Glass stuff, it was a
> no
> go! After researching the site I discovered that it was because that card
> wasn't good enough either. SO.. could someone PLEASE tell me what video
> card
> I should purchase so I can run this damn Beta OS and get EVERYTHING out of
> it?!
>
> At this point I'm about ready to send the disc back to Micro$oft and tell
> them to shove it up their @ss along with all the money I'm spending trying
> to
> run their stuff!
>
> Thanks in advance! I know you guys and girls will be able to steer me in
> the right direction!
>
> Also, could you please respond to twiztedfate006@aol.com so I'm sure to
> get
> the reply! It is MUCH APPRECIATED! Again, thanks in advance!!
>
> Eric