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catsrules   01-27-2009 at 07:18:55 AM

I installed Win 7 in both a Virtual PC and in VMware. None have the cool Aero interface. I have read that this is becasue there Virtual video cards are not very good. has any one found a Hack or something that can get Aero working.
I have read about the Remote Desktop trick. Where you remote desktop in to your Virtual PC or VMware and it enables Aero. That sounds like a big inconvenience is there any other way i can accomplish this?

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Shadow703793   01-27-2009 at 11:58:12 PM
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One question: You are testing a BETA OS do you really NEED the Aero UI? If you have a spare IDE/SATA/eSATA HDD (USB?FireWire won't work) you can install Win 7 on it. Un pulg the other HDDs then install it to the spare one (so Window's won't mess with the other drives boot paths), that's what I did.

Anyways this probably won't help you but if you are interested in really testing Win 7 that's what I would do.

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randomizer   01-28-2009 at 01:48:00 AM
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It's got nothing to do with being a beta, it's the nature of virtualisation. You don't have a 9800GT as far as Win 7 is concerned.

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Ci2e   02-16-2009 at 05:19:10 PM
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Like they said the drivers that the software uses does not support high end graphical effects - if you want to see Aero in Win 7 install it on a spare hard drive or partition your hard drive so you can dual boot...

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amdfangirl   02-17-2009 at 10:55:33 AM
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Install the VM graphics driver plz. Normally called VM tools or something

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randomizer   02-17-2009 at 11:06:50 AM
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amdfangirl wrote :

Install the VM graphics driver plz. Normally called VM tools or something


I don't thikn VMWare Tools allows Aero. It didn't when I tried Server 2008.

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amdfangirl   02-17-2009 at 11:18:40 AM
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Well its worth a try.

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captaincharisma   02-17-2009 at 05:42:32 PM
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VMware is only able to do some features of directX 9c an i think that is as of version 6.5. but i have windows 7 running and not able to get it running and cannot get threw the windows experience test in vmware


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jive   02-17-2009 at 05:43:34 PM
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Vmware don't allow aero. I try my self and install all the tools or addon for vmware. At the end I decide to put on a spare disk I have, usally used to store data.
For win7, I played crysis,fallout and I get one problem one time in 30 days... better then vista hahaha.
thanks

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amdfangirl   02-18-2009 at 05:01:39 AM
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I dunno, VMware Fusion does support Dx9c and can play basic games except its mac only whilst Virtual Box has Open GL acceleration.

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randomizer   02-18-2009 at 05:08:22 AM
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VMWare Server does not support 3D hardware acceleration of any kind. VMWare Player 2.5 and VMWare Workstation 6.5 both have some support, as does Fusion.

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