I am trying to install virtuall adater on my vista os but as soon as I install it, it disables the aero feature of vista. I have tried but not able to come up with any solution. Any solution or thread regarding this. Thanx
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Subject: [ntdev] vistaI am trying to install virtuall adater on my vista os but as
soon as I install it, it disables the aero feature of vista.
I have tried but not able to come up with any solution. Any
solution or thread regarding this. Thanx
If you mean a virtual graphics adapter then this is expected behaviour.
Tim Green
Development Engineer
DisplayLink (UK) Limited
http://www.displaylink.com/
xxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to install virtuall adater on my vista os but as soon as I install it, it disables the aero feature of vista. I have tried but not able to come up with any solution. Any solution or thread regarding this.
What kind of virtual adapter? Do you mean a mirror driver? That’s by
design. Installing a mirror driver kills Aero.
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Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Yes it is a virtual graphic adapter. Its true that by design it disables Aero but there must be a way to handle this. Any suggestion regarding will be appreciated.
Thanx
xxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
Yes it is a virtual graphic adapter. Its true that by design it disables Aero but there must be a way to handle this.
No, there isn’t. Aero is essentially a Direct3D 9 application. The
individual windows are located in textures, and the desktop is composed
on the fly by 3D hardware in the graphics chip. Your virtual graphic
adapter doesn’t have DX9 hardware. It can’t run Aero. It’s just that
simple.
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Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Its a virtual adapter, what you say is right but i think we can forcibly make it happen. As windows desktop manager checks the system compatibility before initialization of AERO, I think there must be a way. Thanx
xxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
Its a virtual adapter, what you say is right but i think we can forcibly make it happen. As windows desktop manager checks the system compatibility before initialization of AERO, I think there must be a way. Thanx
You can think whatever you want, but it isn’t going to change the facts.
How would you expect this to work? Aero is a DirectX 9 application. If
your virtual adapter doesn’t do DirectX 9, what do you expect Aero to
do? Direct3D doesn’t simulate missing features, the way GDI does. If a
feature isn’t present, it can’t be used, and the application can’t run
unless it is willing to simulate on its own. Aero doesn’t do that.
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Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
I understand u r point Mr. Tim Roberts, and thanx for ur reply. Why i am asking again and again because I have read that in the beta version of vista re1 there is a catch that if you change the value of of registry “EnableMachineCheck” than you can enable aero even on XP driver. Again Thanx for ur reply.