nvidia drivers.

www.zacknet.co.uk/vistabase/ - Graphics - "Device drivers - Nvidia"

You're in luck - I believe they are supported yes :o)

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Andre Da Costa [Extended64] - 07 Feb 2006 01:00 GMT

Make sure those drivers are supported under 5270, nVidia had some on their
websites that were only supported 5112.

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> www.zacknet.co.uk/vistabase/ - Graphics - "Device drivers - Nvidia"
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> You're in luck - I believe they are supported yes :o)

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Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor) - 07 Feb 2006 06:43 GMT

The 4000 is my card in the next room ;o)

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Josh - 07 Feb 2006 03:11 GMT

Zach,

I am all for the shameless self plug everyonce in a while, but when possible
with information that is fluid, like this, I think it would be a better
practice for us to direct them to the Vendor web site as we don't want to
deliver bad information when details change.

Nvida's Vista Web site
http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html

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> www.zacknet.co.uk/vistabase/ - Graphics - "Device drivers - Nvidia"
>
> You're in luck - I believe they are supported yes :o)

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Ben here is the link to the Nvidia site that you want. and yes the cards
are supported.

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

Josh
http://windowsconnected.com

>I have a quattro FX 3000 and Quattro FX 4000.
> Does anyone know if there are special vista drivers for these cards?
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> Thanks,
> Ben L

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RonK - 07 Feb 2006 04:09 GMT

More accurately "the cards will be supported in the shipping version". They
are not necessarily supported right now.

RK

> Ben here is the link to the Nvidia site that you want. and yes the cards
> are supported.
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>> Thanks,
>> Ben L

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Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor) - 07 Feb 2006 06:44 GMT

But I know the 4000 definately is... as I said, it's the card I'm using in
the next room!

And hey, that's what the website's there for.

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You'd be a lot better off using the XP drivers;

Just extract all contents of the latest NVIDIA ForceWare .exe you downloaded
into a folder using WinRAR or some such, and run the extracted Setup.exe in
XP Compatibility Mode.

Reboot, and performance will be practically just as good as on XP, and you
could still use the Aero Glass mode with the help of some Registry tweaks*
but if you do that you'll need to keep switching Vista's rendering engine
off with CTRL+SHIFT+F9 before you can run other DirectX/OpenGL apps in
hardware-accelerated mode, otherwise just disable the User Experience
service.

* CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DWM\ ...
* [DWORD] UseMachineCheck = 0
* [DWORD] Glass = 1
* [DWORD] Composition = 1
* [DWORD] Blur = 0 (speeds it up a lot)
* [DWORD] Animations = 0 (to speed it up a little, but you may want to leave
them on)

>I have a quattro FX 3000 and Quattro FX 4000.
> Does anyone know if there are special vista drivers for these cards?
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> Thanks,
> Ben L

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Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor) - 07 Feb 2006 15:57 GMT

Yeh, I've got a set of articles on VistaBase which basically describes the
last post Adahn made.

www.zacknet.co.uk/vistabase and select "Graphics" from the left menu :o)

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Ben L - 07 Feb 2006 16:54 GMT

I didn't install any drivers. I just ran the Vista setup. Glass works, but
its slow (in my opinion).

found my final answer on the nvidia site:

"Updated NVIDIA graphics drivers are included in the Vista December CTP
build, available directly from the Microsoft Developer's Network. These
drivers are only compatible with Vista December CTP, version
5270.Winmain.051214-1910 and should not be used with other versions of Vista."

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Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor) - 07 Feb 2006 18:55 GMT

My Glass is a little slow as well - click and drag a window around the
screen and it just goes slowly for a second or so, then speeds up :op

Could well be a Vista thing - some other of my testing colleagues have said
the same things, and they have *uber* amazing computers. Dual Core 64 bit,
3.8 something Ghz, AMD 64 Processors... 2GB RAM... the latest graphics
cards... and still... :op

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Andre Da Costa [Extended64] - 07 Feb 2006 19:23 GMT

Its slow also on my machine, the code is simply not optimized yet, Jim
Allchin said, they have not turned that on yet. We might see some
improvements in the Feb CTP, but the BETA 2 release is what we should really
be looking forward to.

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> My Glass is a little slow as well - click and drag a window around the
> screen and it just goes slowly for a second or so, then speeds up :op
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> bit, 3.8 something Ghz, AMD 64 Processors... 2GB RAM... the latest
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Adahn - 07 Feb 2006 21:43 GMT

It's pretty fast and smooth on the XP drivers, once you've forced it from
the Registry. and in either case, turning Blur off helps a lot.

>I didn't install any drivers. I just ran the Vista setup. Glass works, but
> its slow (in my opinion).

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Nicholas - 25 Feb 2006 14:18 GMT

"It's pretty fast and smooth on the XP drivers"

lol, of course, they're Hollywood DCC video rendering monsters.

But that's interesting... they'll find Aero Glass a challenge? Beats me...

> It's pretty fast and smooth on the XP drivers, once you've forced it from
> the Registry. and in either case, turning Blur off helps a lot.
>
>>I didn't install any drivers. I just ran the Vista setup. Glass works,
>>but
>> its slow (in my opinion).

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