by Saurabh
14. April 2006 17:05
CNET's news.com is reporting that Aero will require WGA (aka Windows Genuine Advantage) even though your Windows version is among the high-end versions of Vista: Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate. But the most interesting thing in the 44MB early draft of the Vista product guide is that it tells you the exact memory bandwidth your GPU (wether card or onboard) must have to run Aero. Now I don't know if the Graphic Card manufacturer's do the same fancy number twisting like the hard disk manufacturer's so I don't know if 1.8 GBPS will be accurate, even the draft guide specifies the bandwidth as 1800MBPS.
Don't know if this helps anyone since Microsoft already has publicly said the graphic chips must be DX9 compatible. And most GPUs (even intel's 9xx series onboard chips) are 8 times the specified bandwidth.