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Show Us Your WEI (2)
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New #372
Here is the score for my Asus Eee Netbook PC Model 1018PB.
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New #373
Well New Graphics Card, so New Wei :)
Interesting.... Gaming graphics has gone up from 3.1 to 5.5 but Aero has only taken a little boost, 3.4 to 3.6
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New #374
WEI is buggy, I tell you. Surely we are not to believe your graphics card is noticeably beter, but for Aero, it's not doing a good job? I'm sure you were disappointed to have your overall score not increase to the 5.5, but I'm also sure you notice things look better and even taskbar transparency has improved? I think WEI has some sinister plan
You can never get it high as you like, so you continue to buy new hardware. I'm stuck at 5.9 because of my drives. But I'm not sweating it, I'm happy. A Guy
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Well desktop animations are smoother and almost instantaneous now, Everything looks a bit nicer (I cant explain how... its just better I cant put my finger on why though) I'm very happy with this card considering it only cost me £45. Smooth HD video, Good Gaming performance (Medium Settings on modern games, High on Older ones)
Fraps tells me that Aero is never hitting above 30Fps and its very smooth, so obviously my card can handle Aero fine. Even according to the WEI Help and Support article, a graphics score of 3 is more than sufficient for Aero
To be perfectly honest, when I bought this machine it was a very cheap budget machine with 1GB of Ram and Vista Basic. The fact that I have got it running Windows 7 with a WEI of 5 (im ignoring the Aero score, as it obviously doesnt fit in) for less than £100 worth of upgrades is quite impressive I think
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New #377
The original plan, was for software companies to stick the Base score on the box so you can see at a glance if you can run it. Hence, if a game has say a minimum base score of 3 you know you can definitely run it for your hardware as long as you have all 3's. This was never really implemented in practise, but if you open up Games Explorer a lot of games have the "Minimum Base Score" there.
Anyway you have a base score of 5.9! Just look at what mine is, despite the fact it should obviously be higher! I wouldn't be complaining if I were you
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im not complaining, i just wish the 7 or 7.1 was there.
Anyway you have a base score of 5.9! Just look at what mine is, despite the fact it should obviously be higher! I wouldn't be complaining if I were you
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New #379
Yeah, but knowing they are good drives, and that lower score was meant to leave room for new technologies. It's all good :)
A Guy
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New #380
WEI was introduced shortly after Vista came out.
Vista was fairly resource demanding when released, causing it to run poorly or not at all on some older computers.
When people installed Vista on their older computer and it wouldn't run Aero or wouldn't run at all, this would cause a certain level of irritation and complaints.
MS introduced WEI, you could D/L it and check if your computer would run Aero and/or run at all before you bought Vista.
It was meant to be a general overall rating of old and new computers, also to be used for ratings on software and games so the user could determine if and how they would run on their computer.
It will also give you a general indication of which hardware you might need to upgrade to get better performance from your computer.
If your lowest score won't run Aero or run at all, then that is your chances of running Vista the way you want it to. So the lowest score is the most important score to determine this.
It also serves as a psychological incentive to buy more hardware
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