Vista Aero Glass - performance hit (or not)

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Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:16:39 GMT

Since the Vista news has exploded in recent days, I'm going to start doing link posts for the articles

You gotto be kidding

Eric Denekamp — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:03:37 GMT

If you were thinking of winning performance by turning of Glass and the aero interface: DON'T. In this

re: Vista Aero Glass - performance hit (or not)

W.Meints — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:35:04 GMT

This is indeed shocking, as you'd expected that the system needs more cpu time and memory to show all the fancy stuff they put into vista.

I wonder though, does the same apply when I have an integrated intel graphics chip. That chip doesn't have the necessary features to show earo.

re: Vista Aero Glass - performance hit (or not)

Ewan — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:44:22 GMT

If you don't have an Aero-capable card in the first place, then I suppose this is a moot point... it means you'll be running in "Windows Basic" rather than "Windows Aero" mode.

When you do get Aero, a different graphics engine is used to draw the UI... hence why switching between Aero and Basic may show so little overhead performance difference - ie it's not the case that a single graphics engine is either doing the basic or doing more work to generate the Aero experience...

re: Vista Aero Glass - performance hit (or not)

Mattio Valentino — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:08:19 GMT

I'd disagree. I followed the directions at the URL below and saved over 100MB of memory usage.

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2100/vista_make_aero_perform_faster