reading video card 32mb its 64mb

I have an ATI Radeon Mobilty X300 64MB dedicated video card which is compatible with WDDM. The windows vista perforamce rating area says that my video card has only 32MB memory, and therefore will not allow me to enable aero glass even at a 1024x768 resolution. Windows XP did recognize the card as 64MB. How can i fix this?

Are you using the ATI drivers direct from ATI? Or is it one of the video cards that have the Hyper Memory with 32MB onboard for the video, and it has access to another 32MB of system RAM?
Dustin Harper
"rbyrd8100" wrote in message

I have an ATI Radeon Mobilty X300 64MB dedicated video card which is compatible with WDDM. The windows vista perforamce rating area says that my video card has only 32MB memory, and therefore will not allow me to enable aero glass even at a 1024x768 resolution. Windows XP did recognize the card as 64MB. How can i fix this?

Yes, i am using the ATI Catalyst Windows Vista Beta driver directly from ATI. No, it is not a hyper memory card, just a standard card. The card does not use shared memory. See below for full specs.
Dell Inspiron 6000 2.0 ghz Intel Centrino 1.50 GB Memory ATI Mobilty Radeon X300 64MB dedicated video
"Dustin Harper" wrote:

Are you using the ATI drivers direct from ATI? Or is it one of the video cards that have the Hyper Memory with 32MB onboard for the video, and it has access to another 32MB of system RAM?
Dustin Harper
"rbyrd8100" wrote in message I have an ATI Radeon Mobilty X300 64MB dedicated video card which is compatible with WDDM. The windows vista perforamce rating area says that my video card has only 32MB memory, and therefore will not allow me to enable aero glass even at a 1024x768 resolution. Windows XP did recognize the card as 64MB. How can i fix this?

I would guess it is a 64MB of Hypermemory. That means "this card has 32MB, but we'll claim 64mb by using 32mb of system ram" "rbyrd8100" wrote in message

I have an ATI Radeon Mobilty X300 64MB dedicated video card which is compatible with WDDM. The windows vista perforamce rating area says that my video card has only 32MB memory, and therefore will not allow me to enable aero glass even at a 1024x768 resolution. Windows XP did recognize the card as 64MB. How can i fix this?

Are you sure? I was under the impression that if not all, most of the X300 used Hypermemory. "rbyrd8100" wrote in message

Yes, i am using the ATI Catalyst Windows Vista Beta driver directly from ATI. No, it is not a hyper memory card, just a standard card. The card does not use shared memory. See below for full specs.
Dell Inspiron 6000 2.0 ghz Intel Centrino 1.50 GB Memory ATI Mobilty Radeon X300 64MB dedicated video
"Dustin Harper" wrote:
Are you using the ATI drivers direct from ATI? Or is it one of the video cards that have the Hyper Memory with 32MB onboard for the video, and it has access to another 32MB of system RAM?
Dustin Harper
"rbyrd8100" wrote in message I have an ATI Radeon Mobilty X300 64MB dedicated video card which is compatible with WDDM. The windows vista perforamce rating area says that my video card has only 32MB memory, and therefore will not allow me to enable aero glass even at a 1024x768 resolution. Windows XP did recognize the card as 64MB. How can i fix this?

I am using the same video card on my thinkpad. I installed the ATI vista drivers and it is recognized appropriately as 64MB, and Aero Glass is running great.
"rbyrd8100" wrote:

I have an ATI Radeon Mobilty X300 64MB dedicated video card which is compatible with WDDM. The windows vista perforamce rating area says that my video card has only 32MB memory, and therefore will not allow me to enable aero glass even at a 1024x768 resolution. Windows XP did recognize the card as 64MB. How can i fix this?