Windows 7 Aero Compatibility

[lukeau]

Hey, im new here on the forums.
I joined in hope of someone answering my one question

I have recently downloaded the Windows 7 RC, mainly for the areo visuals etc.
BUT i cannot seem to enable them.
I have tried all the hacks out there on the internet and cannot seem to get it to work.
I have also updated my driver etc.

My PC Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ 2.0 GHz
512mb RAM
Nvidia GeForce Mx 440 with agp8x
Windows 7

My question is, with my current hardware, is there anyway to get aero to work?
I have previously had vista and i got aero to work somehow, but i cant remember. lol
Thanks in advance

 

[Orbital Shark]

Hi lukeau, welcome to the forums.

What memory has you GFX card got (min required is 128MB)? If you run the WEI (Windows Experience Index) what is the base score you get. WEI needs to be 2.0 or above for Windows to deem you worthy of Aero. See the screenshots i've provided for the registry entry for visual effects & what the default (enabled) setting should be.

Hope this helps







Jeff

 

[YupYup]

Really don't see how you would get aero on that card but here is the tutorial, i would read the comments first.

Hack to Force Enable Aero in Windows 7 » My Digital Life

 

[lukeau]

it has 128 mb
and my WEI score is 1.0
but the graphics card score is 1.9

is ther anyway to improve the score??

 

[Orbital Shark]

Have you got a screenshot you can upload of your WEI score? What is causing the 1.0?

 

[lukeau]

Its the gaming graphics..

 

[Mercurial]

that happens when you card doesn't support pixel shader buy a new one

 

[lukeau]

that happens when you card doesn't support pixel shader buy a new one

damnnn okay lol

 

[Orbital Shark]

If you look here - GeForce4 MX | GeForce MX - you will see that your MAX video memory is 64MB which if you managed to get Aero working then it'll struggle.

 

[lukeau]

hmm okay.
but i do remember when i had aero working on vista it didnt struggle much at all.

I dont really mind about the memory resources it takes, as long as i have it.

any suggestions to get it?
im completely bummed.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Have you tried YupYup's suggetion in post #3, i've no experience in hacking an OS as i've so far had no need to.

 

[lukeau]

Have you tried YupYup's suggetion in post #3, i've no experience in hacking an OS as i've so far had no need to.

yeah i have tried it, and unfortunately it didnt work.
i know my computer can run aero because i have had it running perfectly before! (although i have no idea how i got it to work on vista).

 

[12eason]

i know my computer can run aero because i have had it running perfectly before!

The only way you'd have seen Aero on that card is during the Vista beta (Longhorn) days. That was when Aero was still software driven and had no hardware acceleration requirement. As soon as it was finalised it needed pixel shaders which your card doesn't have.

You can get a cheap aero capable card off Ebay for next to nothing nowadays. That's because lots of DX9 cards were aero capable, but were made redundant by dx10 capable cards. I got my x1950pro for £5.