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RE: laptop upgrade
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Originally posted by DarkMe
i think a 64mb video card would be fine but it has to be DirectX 9 capable in order to run vista aero
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Originally posted by http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx

Support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)2, Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel.



edit: just noticed the footnote
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Originally posted by http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capablefootnotes.mspx

If the GPU uses shared memory, then no additional graphics memory is required beyond the 1 GB system memory requirement; If the GPU uses dedicated memory then 128MB is required.


so your graphic card may work

This post was edited on 11-23-2006 at 02:52 AM by -dt-.
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laptop upgrade - by Supersonicdarky on 11-23-2006 at 12:31 AM
RE: laptop upgrade - by DarkMe on 11-23-2006 at 02:33 AM
RE: laptop upgrade - by -dt- on 11-23-2006 at 02:42 AM
RE: laptop upgrade - by Supersonicdarky on 11-23-2006 at 03:06 AM
RE: laptop upgrade - by Adeptus on 11-23-2006 at 04:23 AM
RE: laptop upgrade - by Supersonicdarky on 11-23-2006 at 12:27 PM
RE: laptop upgrade - by Adeptus on 11-23-2006 at 01:15 PM
RE: laptop upgrade - by Supersonicdarky on 11-23-2006 at 08:47 PM
RE: laptop upgrade - by saralk on 11-23-2006 at 08:54 PM


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