Krazy_About_Technology
Padawan
Guys,
This time i am really annoyed with Microsoft for this Intel 915 Graphics and Aero glass incompatibility issues. I know many post have been done on this forum on this issue, but i cant keep myself from speaking.
Its well known, Aero Glass interface is not supported on Intel 915 based systems. I accepted this fact for a while after saerching real hard on net for a WDDM driver and not finding any.
But all changed today when i booted up Linux Mint with Beryl. Its awesome man! The effects are smoothly working with transparencies (May be software based, but working properly), window wobble effect, 3d task switcher etc.
I cant understand if these things work so smoothly on linux, is the Windows Vista graphics system so badly designed that it cant run simple transparencies and a few Pixel Shader 2.0 instructions on it! I dont think so, but its showing that!
I read the post of intel regarding this issue, and i understand why they cant release an WDDM driver. The real fault lies in the changed specification given by Microsoft for the WDDM driver model. The absesnce of a hardware scheduler in the chip doesn't stops it from running smoothly, nor does the newly specified size of memory tables. Vista beta versions did had LDDM drivers (WDDM now) and ran Aero glass on 915. I cant understand why they raised the requirements if the systems run properly with 1 GB RAM?
BTW i am using vista on 1.6 GHZ celeron, 1.24 GB RAM and a 915 card. Aero used to work perfectly upto 2nd BETA (i doent remember it well) of Vista. But this topped with RC1. IT really knocks me off!!
If linux can do it, why not Windows, which is also such a advance and great operating system. This is somewhat ridiculous for me (and frustrating too).
This time i am really annoyed with Microsoft for this Intel 915 Graphics and Aero glass incompatibility issues. I know many post have been done on this forum on this issue, but i cant keep myself from speaking.
Its well known, Aero Glass interface is not supported on Intel 915 based systems. I accepted this fact for a while after saerching real hard on net for a WDDM driver and not finding any.
But all changed today when i booted up Linux Mint with Beryl. Its awesome man! The effects are smoothly working with transparencies (May be software based, but working properly), window wobble effect, 3d task switcher etc.
I cant understand if these things work so smoothly on linux, is the Windows Vista graphics system so badly designed that it cant run simple transparencies and a few Pixel Shader 2.0 instructions on it! I dont think so, but its showing that!
I read the post of intel regarding this issue, and i understand why they cant release an WDDM driver. The real fault lies in the changed specification given by Microsoft for the WDDM driver model. The absesnce of a hardware scheduler in the chip doesn't stops it from running smoothly, nor does the newly specified size of memory tables. Vista beta versions did had LDDM drivers (WDDM now) and ran Aero glass on 915. I cant understand why they raised the requirements if the systems run properly with 1 GB RAM?
BTW i am using vista on 1.6 GHZ celeron, 1.24 GB RAM and a 915 card. Aero used to work perfectly upto 2nd BETA (i doent remember it well) of Vista. But this topped with RC1. IT really knocks me off!!
If linux can do it, why not Windows, which is also such a advance and great operating system. This is somewhat ridiculous for me (and frustrating too).