Hardware installation.
Installing 3d support video card on Windows Vista Home Premium
edition.
Windows Vista rated my computer with a
message "Your computer has a Windows Experience Index
base score of 1.0" due to no 3d hardware acceleration.
See picture below.
After inserting a new video
card (Asus m6600LE) things have changed dramatically. A lot
of new features in windows also became available. Windows
has detected the new card and surprisingly found a driver
for it without any problems. See pictures below.
It's nice to see that the card
was accepted and the driver provided by microsoft is working
nice. I had to reboot the system for the changes to take affect.
Of course, first thing I did after reboot was check the score
rating and surprisingly it displayed a message: " Your
computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.5).
See picture below.
I must admit that I was a bit
skeptical before I installed this card and it's capabilities
with Windows Vista. If you're not sure if your hardware will
be compatible with Vista please visit Microsoft's
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor (download and installation
required) Advisor will only work with 32-bit versions of Windows
XP and Windows Vista and it will not work with Windows 98,
Windows 2000, or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
