From Kam VedBrat

 

"One question I get asked frequently is "hey will this piece of hardware run Glass on Vista?". Working day-to-day at Micrsoft, the answer is always kind of a puzzle, depending on the hardware that is in question, the build of Windows you installed, and what drivers you may have gotten your hands on.

But for folks out in the real world, who are using Windows Vista Beta 1, I can provide a little more guidance.

In Beta 1, the first thing you need is an LDDM display driver. (You can learn more about LDDM by typing "LDDM WinHEC" into your favorite search-box, and find the DirectX team's slides on the new driver model.) There are other requirements as well - your graphics part needs to support the entire DX9 API, and you'll also want plenty of memory allocated for graphics.

The reall challenge people run into is picking the right graphics card. Luckily, ATI and nVidia have each posted pages on their web-sites that list the supported cards, and available drivers.

• ATI Drivers
• nVidia Drivers

If you install Windows Vista Beta 1 on a computer with one of the listed parts, and the listed driver, you will see Glass!"

 

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