I am just getting back to start working through this thread (when I
should be doing other things so this might be brief). My Machine is a
Sony Vaio VGN-FE890
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 @ 1.66, 1.67 MHz
Intel T7600 233 GHz
driver 6.0.6000.16386
2046 MB RAM
32-Bit OS
NVIDIA GeForce 7400 driver 7.15.10.9746
Generic PnP monitor 6.0.6000.16386
Monitor resolution 1280x800 maximum colors
Windows Experience Graphics 3.6/Gaming 3.2




--- In virtualmoon@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Chevalley" <pch@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can you specify which graphic card you use and the driver version.
> All this problem are generally related to that.
>
> I do the first test with Vista at the end of last year to check that
> all is working, principally the installer. For the convenience I do
> that within a virtual machine but with the drawback it not let me
> test a real graphic driver.
>
> So yesterday I put an old 20GB drive on my computer to install Vista
> for a test with my two available graphic card: the mainboard Intel
> 82915 and a Nvidia 6600.
>
> I first install the VMA Expert version and then the VMA Pro.
> In all the case the program run fine and I don't encounter any
> problem, I run it with about all the options for a hundred of time.
>
> The only problem was the performance with the default Vista drivers,
> I summarize that below:
>
> Intel 82915
> Vista driver version 6.14.10.4656
> resolution 1680x1050, 32bit color
> Windows experience index for 3D graphic : 1.0
> VMA Pro frame rate : 3
> apparently no OpenGL acceleration
> Unfortunately no new driver available for Vista on Intel web site.
>
> Nvidia 6600
> Vista driver version 7.15.10.9746
> resolution 1680x1050, 32bit color
> Windows experience index for 3D graphic : 3.8
> VMA Pro frame rate : 3
> apparently no OpenGL acceleration
>
> Nvidia 6600
> Last beta driver from Nvidia version 7.15.11.5818
> resolution 1680x1050, 32bit color
> Windows experience index for 3D graphic : 3.8
> VMA Pro frame rate : 70 to 200 depending on the setting
> full OpenGL acceleration
>
> It look like you need a vendor driver for OpenGL acceleration, the
> Vista drivers don't include that!
>
> Any people here with Vista experience ?
> it may be interesting to hear ATI user's.
>
> Patrick
>