low performance rating disables aero

I got a performance rating of 2, even though everything was 3.8+ , except my Radeon 9550 g256mb raphics adapter which was a 2. I cannot use the aero glass look and i'm wondering if this is the reason why, despite the fact that ATI supports this card for Aero Glass and Vista BETA2. I have the Vista beta drivers for my card as well.

Well unless you tell me differently as far as I can tell nobody can even get that graphic card to load correctly in Windows Vista even after installing Ati's vista driver. So the fact that you can't use aero glass is not the rating particularly but even just the card's drivers are not installed properly on the system. You need to check your device manager and see if there is an exclamation point by your Radeon 9550 card??
"Nim" wrote:

I got a performance rating of 2, even though everything was 3.8+ , except my Radeon 9550 g256mb raphics adapter which was a 2. I cannot use the aero glass look and i'm wondering if this is the reason why, despite the fact that ATI supports this card for Aero Glass and Vista BETA2. I have the Vista beta drivers for my card as well.

I checked in the device manager and it says the device is working properly, however in Ratings and Performance while it has Radeon 9550 as Video card, it says "No gaming hardware detected" and also DirectX diagnostic sees the card but reports that it has 0mb of memory. But i have been to several other forums where people have said their Radeon 9550s worked fine first go. So i don't understand why Vista doesn't like mine. Oh, and my card DOES work i tried it in another PC to make sure and it ran doom 3 perfectly.
"Charles" wrote:

Well unless you tell me differently as far as I can tell nobody can even get that graphic card to load correctly in Windows Vista even after installing Ati's vista driver. So the fact that you can't use aero glass is not the rating particularly but even just the card's drivers are not installed properly on the system. You need to check your device manager and see if there is an exclamation point by your Radeon 9550 card??
"Nim" wrote:
I got a performance rating of 2, even though everything was 3.8+ , except my Radeon 9550 g256mb raphics adapter which was a 2. I cannot use the aero glass look and i'm wondering if this is the reason why, despite the fact that ATI supports this card for Aero Glass and Vista BETA2. I have the Vista beta drivers for my card as well.

Well, if you say so. If you take a look at some of the other responses in this thread you will see what I am talking about. I guess it could be that our cards are having other issues that are not related to the driver's issue. Do you have the beta driver from the ATI website or just the one that Windows loaded? I still say that you are probably having an issue and maybe your device manager is not recognizing it for some unknown reason. However if the device manager is recognizing it, look to see if it tells you the chip and all of that under properties of the card?? "Nim" wrote:

I checked in the device manager and it says the device is working properly, however in Ratings and Performance while it has Radeon 9550 as Video card, it says "No gaming hardware detected" and also DirectX diagnostic sees the card but reports that it has 0mb of memory. But i have been to several other forums where people have said their Radeon 9550s worked fine first go. So i don't understand why Vista doesn't like mine. Oh, and my card DOES work i tried it in another PC to make sure and it ran doom 3 perfectly.
"Charles" wrote:
Well unless you tell me differently as far as I can tell nobody can even get that graphic card to load correctly in Windows Vista even after installing Ati's vista driver. So the fact that you can't use aero glass is not the rating particularly but even just the card's drivers are not installed properly on the system. You need to check your device manager and see if there is an exclamation point by your Radeon 9550 card??
"Nim" wrote:
I got a performance rating of 2, even though everything was 3.8+ , except my Radeon 9550 g256mb raphics adapter which was a 2. I cannot use the aero glass look and i'm wondering if this is the reason why, despite the fact that ATI supports this card for Aero Glass and Vista BETA2. I have the Vista beta drivers for my card as well.

You can try this:
Go to display prop, change to use only 1 screen (if multiple were detected) and change resolution to lowest possible (usually 800x600).
Now go to the perf thing and ask it to refresh the rating. Your gfx card rating is very likely now 3+. At this point the glass should be visible but you could try a reboot if it's not. Now step up the resolution again. The glass may go away at some point if you use multiple monitors for example with high resolution or just very high res alone.
Very high resolutions may need 512 MB mem from gfx card to use glass.
"Charles" wrote in message

Well unless you tell me differently as far as I can tell nobody can even get that graphic card to load correctly in Windows Vista even after installing Ati's vista driver. So the fact that you can't use aero glass is not the rating particularly but even just the card's drivers are not installed properly on the system. You need to check your device manager and see if there is an exclamation point by your Radeon 9550 card??
"Nim" wrote:
I got a performance rating of 2, even though everything was 3.8+ , except my Radeon 9550 g256mb raphics adapter which was a 2. I cannot use the aero glass look and i'm wondering if this is the reason why, despite the fact that ATI supports this card for Aero Glass and Vista BETA2. I have the Vista beta drivers for my card as well.

I agree with droid-refresh your performance rating-mine was not correct after initial install-start-control panel-performance and rating-refresh my rating(under the large rating number) and see if that helps
"droid" wrote:

You can try this:
Go to display prop, change to use only 1 screen (if multiple were detected) and change resolution to lowest possible (usually 800x600).
Now go to the perf thing and ask it to refresh the rating. Your gfx card rating is very likely now 3+. At this point the glass should be visible but you could try a reboot if it's not. Now step up the resolution again. The glass may go away at some point if you use multiple monitors for example with high resolution or just very high res alone.
Very high resolutions may need 512 MB mem from gfx card to use glass.
"Charles" wrote in message Well unless you tell me differently as far as I can tell nobody can even get that graphic card to load correctly in Windows Vista even after installing Ati's vista driver. So the fact that you can't use aero glass is not the rating particularly but even just the card's drivers are not installed properly on the system. You need to check your device manager and see if there is an exclamation point by your Radeon 9550 card??
"Nim" wrote:
I got a performance rating of 2, even though everything was 3.8+ , except my Radeon 9550 g256mb raphics adapter which was a 2. I cannot use the aero glass look and i'm wondering if this is the reason why, despite the fact that ATI supports this card for Aero Glass and Vista BETA2. I have the Vista beta drivers for my card as well.

The performance rating will not (should not) disable Aero. It's the driver that isnt working properly. Is this an All In Wonder card by any chance? If so, there are no Vista drivers yet for the AiW cards.
"daddy3" wrote in message

I agree with droid-refresh your performance rating-mine was not correct after initial install-start-control panel-performance and rating-refresh my rating(under the large rating number) and see if that helps
"droid" wrote:
You can try this:
Go to display prop, change to use only 1 screen (if multiple were detected) and change resolution to lowest possible (usually 800x600).
Now go to the perf thing and ask it to refresh the rating. Your gfx card rating is very likely now 3+. At this point the glass should be visible but you could try a reboot if it's not. Now step up the resolution again. The glass may go away at some point if you use multiple monitors for example with high resolution or just very high res alone.
Very high resolutions may need 512 MB mem from gfx card to use glass.
"Charles" wrote in message Well unless you tell me differently as far as I can tell nobody can even get that graphic card to load correctly in Windows Vista even after installing Ati's vista driver. So the fact that you can't use aero glass is not the rating particularly but even just the card's drivers are not installed properly on the system. You need to check your device manager and see if there is an exclamation point by your Radeon 9550 card??
"Nim" wrote:
I got a performance rating of 2, even though everything was 3.8+ , except my Radeon 9550 g256mb raphics adapter which was a 2. I cannot use the aero glass look and i'm wondering if this is the reason why, despite the fact that ATI supports this card for Aero Glass and Vista BETA2. I have the Vista beta drivers for my card as well.