mobilenvidia Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 (edited) Here is a list of GPUs that are supported in Vista and should be able to run Aero effects if the other requirements are also met. Please read also HERE for further details. GeForce FX 5200 GPUs GeForce FX 5500 GPUs GeForce FX 5600 GPUs GeForce FX 5900 GPUs GeForce 6100/6150 GPUs GeForce 6200 GPUs GeForce 6500 GPUs GeForce 6600 GPUs GeForce 6800 GPUs GeForce 7300 GPUs GeForce 7600 GPUs GeForce 7800 GPUs GeForce 7900 GPUs GeForce 7950 GX2 GPUs GeForce FX Go 5100 GPUs GeForce FX Go 5200 GPUs GeForce FX Go 5600 GPUs GeForce FX Go 5650 GPUs GeForce FX Go 5700 GPUs GeForce Go 6100/6150 GPUs GeForce Go 6200 GPUs GeForce Go 6400 GPUs GeForce Go 6600 GPUs GeForce Go 6800 GPUs GeForce Go 7200 GPUs GeForce Go 7300 GPUs GeForce Go 7400 GPUs GeForce Go 7600 GPUs GeForce Go 7800 GPUs GeForce Go 7900 GPUs GeForce Go 7950 GPUs Quadro FX 350M GPUs Quadro FX 1500M GPUs Quadro FX 2500M GPUs Quadro FX 330/350 GPUs Quadro FX 500/540/550/560 GPUs Quadro FX 600/700 GPUs Quadro FX 1000 GPUs Quadro FX 1100 GPUs Quadro FX 1300 GPUs Quadro FX 1400 GPUs Quadro FX 1500 GPUs Quadro FX 2000 GPUs Quadro FX 3000 GPUs Quadro FX 3000G GPUs Quadro FX 3400 GPUs Quadro FX 3450 GPUs Quadro FX 3500 GPUs Quadro FX 4000 GPUs Quadro FX 4000 SDI GPUs Quadro FX 4500 SDI GPUs Quadro FX 4400 GPUs Quadro FX 4500 GPUs Quadro FX 5500 GPUs Quadro NVS 280 GPUs Quadro NVS 285 GPUs Quadro NVS 440 GPUs Quadro NVS 110M GPUs Quadro NVS 120M GPUs Quadro NVS 300M If your GPU is not on this list (like GeForce 4 4x0 Go or older) then forget it, you will probably get a Code 43 error and only be able to use VGA mode in Vista which means likely unusable OS. Edited December 8, 2006 by ®®® Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxygenx Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 Vista works fine on older Hardware, just Aero Glass is not avaiable. Aero Basic (comparable to Windows XP Style) and Windows Classic (like Windows 2000) are working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgoodbody Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 I have a GeForce FX Go 5650 GPU and the test from Dell says no go on the Aero . Graphics Experience NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5650 The Assessment Tool indicates this computer's graphic solution meets Microsoft's minimum requirements for Vista but will not support the Windows Aero experience Hmm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted December 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 I have a GeForce FX Go 5650 GPU and the test from Dell says no go on the Aero .Graphics Experience NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5650 The Assessment Tool indicates this computer's graphic solution meets Microsoft's minimum requirements for Vista but will not support the Windows Aero experience Hmm? I do believe your GPU is supported in the Dell OEM INFs that have been included with some Vista releases :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted December 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 Vista works fine on older Hardware, just Aero Glass is not avaiable. Aero Basic (comparable to Windows XP Style) and Windows Classic (like Windows 2000) are working. Older being go5x00 ? as anything older just gives the Code 43 error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richteralan Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 Older being go5x00 ? as anything older just gives the Code 43 error I have never seen this Code 43 Error. Even on a laptop with GMA900 which is proven not supporting Aero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted December 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 I have never seen this Code 43 Error.Even on a laptop with GMA900 which is proven not supporting Aero. I didn't get it on my i830 based laptop either.But older NVIDIA based GPU's give the Code 43 after the install, this forum (NVDIA based) is full of people that have tried and failed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxygenx Posted December 3, 2006 Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 (edited) Older being go5x00 ? as anything older just gives the Code 43 error I saw a P4 notebook with Geforce 4 Go running Vista RC2 out of the box (no need for a downloaded driver). Sure Aero Glass is not possible. But "unusable" OS is not true. It's a least as usable as XP. Edited December 3, 2006 by oxygenx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted December 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2006 I saw a P4 notebook with Geforce 4 Go running Vista RC2 out of the box (no need for a downloaded driver). Sure Aero Glass is not possible. But "unusable" OS is not true. It's a least as usable as XP. Are you sure it was RC2, the older builds (before 5342) did install and have accelleration (not Aero only 2D) Also did they install the Vista driver or just a XP driver ? XP drivers work better with Vista and can work. My statement still stands, your not going to get very far with vista and a GF2go or GF4go. If there is a laptop that works with the Vista XDDM or even the WDDm drivers then all fine and dandy, but it will struggle to run even the desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoing Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 Guys, forgive me if I missed something but what's the meaning of those gpus on the list that appear on red? TY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn0wl Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 They are laptop versions of the GPUs, which we mainly care about :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxygenx Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 They are laptop versions of the GPUs, which we mainly care about :) But not all are marked red. Quadro NVS/FX M are also mobile gpus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoing Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 But not all are marked red. Quadro NVS/FX M are also mobile gpus. The title of the list says "gpus", so i assumed all of them were gpus... so, them question remais, why some are in red? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 These are mobile GPUs and support WDDM 1.0 and like sn0wl said we mainly care about mobile NVIDIA GPUs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted December 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 The title of the list says "gpus", so i assumed all of them were gpus... so, them question remais, why some are in red? As Rene has said we specialise in Mobile GPU's, when I got the list I just put the Mobile GPU's in red to highligh them (mainly for the front page) There is nothing special about the red, except that they are Mobile GPU's for which the majority of people are here for (well the forums anyway, as the drivers are now used by all and sundry) There are no mobile Quadro's in this list, but from the Quadro FX go700 and up they are supported in Vista as well. Hope this clarifies things a little Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakkhen Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Hi, I've a geforce go 7700 on my notebook that isn't in the compatibility list but that works great with vista and aero... since I installed driver from this site!!! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 As 7700 is a 7600 :) I will add a link to a post a made earlier, which explains it (plus links to NVIDIA official VISTA site etc.): http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index....showtopic=11468 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCSS Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 I have installed Vista Enterprise (RTM) on a Toshiba Portege S100. It worked poorly at first, but once I forced the drivers from this site to install it dramatically sped up. The S100 has an nVidia 6200TE. Aero works remarkably well. It's not supported with 512MB RAM, but there is a quick hack to get it working. Flip3D is smooth even with multiple applications open. Vista shows that it shares 64MB of the system RAM with the card, but it lists 511MB available to the system. It must be completely dynamically allocated. Also, the overall Experience rating of the machine is 2.1, which is pretty good, considering the laptop is 1.5 years old. A brand new Satellite U200 (1GB RAM, 100GB HD, Core Duo 1.6GHz CPU, but the Intel GMA950) gets a rating of 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabrice Roux Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 It's really funny to see how people molest themselves over title bar transparency, glowing button and a lame 3D task switcher. In Linux with the proper X extensions you get a much more efficient 3D desktop. Plus it works on much older hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oVan Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 It's really funny to see how people molest themselves over title bar transparency, glowing button and a lame 3D task switcher. In Linux with the proper X extensions you get a much more efficient 3D desktop. Plus it works on much older hardware. There's no comparison. The Vista Aero interface is actually a composed interface where every program remains live. Even in the Flip-3D and in the taskbar thumbnails you can see that all programs continue to run and update their interface. Furthermore, you can't install Linux completely configured with all standard drivers in 30 minutes, while you can with Vista. Btw, I'm not a Linux hater or anything, in fact I have a warm hart for Linux...but these stupid claims everyone keeps posting...argh! Just take any new machine, install Vista+Office2007+SQL2005+VS2005. In 2 hours it's all setup and you can start to develop. A good Linux setup takes hours and hours, and you'll never achieve the kind of integration that you have on a Windows box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabrice Roux Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Sorry but you have absolutly no clue of what you are talking about... I invite you to read my thread called "Better eye candy than Vista Aero Glass". Mandriva Live CD allows to fully try the compatibility without even installing anything on the hard disk drive. Then if you like it... the install takes less than 15 minutes. And a boatlod of apps are available such as OpenOffice, Firefox, GAIM or GIMP. Using the 3D desktop on Ubuntu is just a tad longer... but using the latests 96.xx+ drivers extension makes the install pretty straight forward. Link to Beryl. But I have to aggree with you if you HAVE to use the visual studio... you are doomed and must use Windows. In the end you have to admit that the cr@p Microsoft added is 100% pure waste... while the Compiz/Beryl allows a couple of interesting features that are actually usefull. Mousewheel transparency and zoom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoing Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 The title of the list says "gpus", so i assumed all of them were gpus... so, them question remais, why some are in red? I thought those gpus might had some different features from the rest relative to their performance with vista, thank you guys :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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