OT: Graphics adapters for Windows 7 Aero

Coursedesign wrote on 10/22/2009, 8:23 AM
Running Microsoft's "WIndows 7 Upgrade Advisor" on my main Windows XP editing rig, I get the following: "Your current graphics adapter won't support the Windows Aero user interface."

I guess it doesn't have enough horsepower, being only a mere Quadro FX 3700.

Anyone have any suggestions for this stupidity?

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/22/2009, 8:30 AM
> I guess it doesn't have enough horsepower, being only a mere Quadro FX 3700.

LOL... I would ignore it (and the windows "weenie" that wrote the code) and just install Windows 7 anyway. I "software moded" my GeForce 8600GTS to look like a Quadro FX1700 and Vista 64 has been using it just fine with the Quadro drivers. I'm sure the FX3700 will scream.

~jr
Coursedesign wrote on 10/22/2009, 8:31 AM
I found a new driver through HP's (not Nvidia's!) "Windows 7 Support Page," but why would Microsoft say the hardware is insufficient, instead of saying "You need new drivers" like for the other devices I have?

Perhaps Microsoft will soon release Version 1.0b of the Upgrade Advisor....

Sigh.
Chienworks wrote on 10/22/2009, 8:33 AM
My choice would be not to use Aero. I think that would avoid a lot of stupidity.

Then again, i still don't foresee me upgrading from XP for another couple of years anyway.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 10/22/2009, 8:35 AM

"Then again, i still don't foresee me upgrading from XP for another couple of years anyway."

Ditto. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. XP Pro is treatin' me just fine. We get along very well. What more could you want from an OS?


Chienworks wrote on 10/22/2009, 8:37 AM
Actually, i want way, way less from an OS than XP offers.
tumbleweed7 wrote on 10/22/2009, 9:58 AM

Turn off Aero.... do you need it for something else???...
daryl wrote on 10/22/2009, 10:08 AM
What else would I want? 64 bit processing. My new machine is on the way, i7 950, lookin' forward to it.
Coursedesign wrote on 10/22/2009, 11:38 AM
Turn off Aero.... do you need it for something else???...

I see this obstacle as a foreboding, a dark omen hanging over this upgrade project...


As a movie, will this version of Windows be "The Magnificent Seven" or "The Seventh Seal?"

:O[~]

ddm wrote on 10/22/2009, 3:15 PM
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/Quadro_Certified/191.00/191.00_Win7_Quadro_Release_Notes.pdf

Nvidia has 32 and 64 bit w7 drivers, that's a good sign, hard to imagine that aero wouldn't run, probably a little too high end to make the upgrade advisor list.