nVidia + Vista - slow when Aero is off

What going on?

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Whenever a legacy app needs to disable the Aero feature in Vista my screen become very slow. I can actually see things being rendered. I can only compare it to when I had XP and default graphics drivers where installed.

Is anyone else experiencing that? I don't experience that on my old computer which got an ATI card installed.

Got Forceware 100.65 installed btw and the graphicscard is an XFX Geforce 6800 GT.
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This happens with all machines which have WDDM drivers (I.e. can run aero).

Basically WDDM drivers do not have 2D Hardware acceleration support.  So it is all being done by your cpu unlike on XP where the graphics card did it.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
But... that's a step back. How silly. And annoying. You MUST have Aero running to get a smooth GUI with all the bells and whistles, or have nothing at all.