For those of you that have onboard video cards, don’t expect to get the full Windows Vista experience as no matter how powerful your computer is otherwise, it just won’t work.

The fault, Peddie reported, was that the low-cost integrated graphics controllers customers have chosen process the 2D windows of Windows XP and Windows 2000 just fine, but lack the bells and whistles necessary to process the Windows Desktop Compositing Engine used in Vista. About 63 percent of the 203 million PCs sold used an integrated graphics controller, JPR reported.

Aero Glass, a specialized subset of the “Aero” Vista interface, requires a DirectX 9.0c-capable graphics card, which only “performance”-class graphics add-on cards (such as the Nvidia GeForce FX 5900) can process.

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