Aero not working with high powered graphics card? HELP!

Ok heres the rundown...

Vista Ultimate...
768 RAM
1.8GHz Processor
256MB Radeon X9250 Graphics Card
80GB Harddrive
32bit system
Vista Rating: 1.0

The Aero option is not showing up on the settings. I put a new graphics card
in after I installed Vista. I don't know if this is a problem. All I'm trying
to do is get the Aero settings. So I would appreciate it if somebody would
help me

Thanks, Nick

After i installed

It's a DirectX 8.1 card, definitely not enough to support Aero in Vista.
And no, it's not a high-powered card - when it was introduced in 2004 it was
advertised as a "sub-$100 bargain level card" even then.

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"RandomHero" <RandomHero@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EA134EE3-D91C-478D-B197-263F05446A13@microsoft.com...
> Ok heres the rundown...
>
> Vista Ultimate...
> 768 RAM
> 1.8GHz Processor
> 256MB Radeon X9250 Graphics Card
> 80GB Harddrive
> 32bit system
> Vista Rating: 1.0
>
> The Aero option is not showing up on the settings. I put a new graphics
> card
> in after I installed Vista. I don't know if this is a problem. All I'm
> trying
> to do is get the Aero settings. So I would appreciate it if somebody would
> help me
>
> Thanks, Nick
>
> After i installed

Is there anyway possible to run Aero with this graphics card?

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

> It's a DirectX 8.1 card, definitely not enough to support Aero in Vista.
> And no, it's not a high-powered card - when it was introduced in 2004 it was
> advertised as a "sub-$100 bargain level card" even then.
>
> --
> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rgharper@gmail.com
> * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
> * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
> * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
> "RandomHero" <RandomHero@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EA134EE3-D91C-478D-B197-263F05446A13@microsoft.com...
> > Ok heres the rundown...
> >
> > Vista Ultimate...
> > 768 RAM
> > 1.8GHz Processor
> > 256MB Radeon X9250 Graphics Card
> > 80GB Harddrive
> > 32bit system
> > Vista Rating: 1.0
> >
> > The Aero option is not showing up on the settings. I put a new graphics
> > card
> > in after I installed Vista. I don't know if this is a problem. All I'm
> > trying
> > to do is get the Aero settings. So I would appreciate it if somebody would
> > help me
> >
> > Thanks, Nick
> >
> > After i installed
>
>
>

No. Radeon 9550 upwards only. The card needs to be DirectX 9 with Pixel
Shader 2.

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"RandomHero" <RandomHero@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there anyway possible to run Aero with this graphics card?
>

"RandomHero" <RandomHero@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote ...
> 256MB Radeon X9250 Graphics Card

Alas, the ATI X9250 is *not* a high-end graphics card. It was a cheaper,
budget card; and being c2004 vintage, is it practically obsolete today. It
does not support DirectX 9.0 (let alone DirectX 10). You cannot run Aero on
this card. If you want all the Vista bling, you'll need a more modern,
capable video card. Doesn't need to be (genuinely) "high-end" - it's getting
hard to buy high end AGP cards, in any case. But an ATI X1300 or nVidia
7600GS - for example - would do the trick.

Hope it helps
Andrew

thanks guys

"Andrew McLaren" wrote:

> "RandomHero" <RandomHero@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote ...
> > 256MB Radeon X9250 Graphics Card
>
> Alas, the ATI X9250 is *not* a high-end graphics card. It was a cheaper,
> budget card; and being c2004 vintage, is it practically obsolete today. It
> does not support DirectX 9.0 (let alone DirectX 10). You cannot run Aero on
> this card. If you want all the Vista bling, you'll need a more modern,
> capable video card. Doesn't need to be (genuinely) "high-end" - it's getting
> hard to buy high end AGP cards, in any case. But an ATI X1300 or nVidia
> 7600GS - for example - would do the trick.
>
> Hope it helps
> Andrew
>
>