^Never mind. 🙁 I didn't mean to judge, seriously - my statements were solely based on observations of my personal milieu back then,
as well as forum postings in various computer forums were my fellow citizens used to be around.
At the time, Aero Glass required a Geforce 5200 or higher GPU, because of Pixel-Shader 2.0.
The driver for the "horribly" (-at the time-) Geforce FX was shipped with Vista, I remember.
In fact, a Vista driver (WDDM 1.0) was required on Windows 7 to make Aero Glass work with the 5200.
While people bashed the 5200 almost constantly, it was a nice card for GUI acceleration.
Because, the Vista Composition Engine or how it was called didn't accelerate GDI anymore
and newer GPUs lost their dedicated 2D graphics cores at the time.
I think there was an article at TOMs PC report or how it was called.
It was in 2016 or so, when I posted some links..
Re: Best PCI VGA card for Windows 3.11 performance?
So having Aero Glass enabled at the time was actually useful to my understanding, not just eye candy.
However, at the time, no one I knew or heard of supported that idea for reasons that I never found out.
Nowadays, since Windows 7, GDI is accelerated again. At least at for the very basic graphics primitves.
Also double-checked the EMS issues. Haven't found the original article, but overall that's what I was thinking of, I suppose:
"no more EMS support in XP
Is anybody really surprised? MS hasn't fixed even obvious NTVDM bugs in years, esp. with Vista and 7, and their priorities these days
are with Win8, Metro, tablets, phones, C++, HTML5, XBox360, etc. They long ago gave up DOS support.
Rumor already says that Win9 Home editions will be 64-bit only, and I have no idea how well Hyper-V 64-bit will work, even in Win8 (only two weeks away).
Anyways, I read a while back that some machines made these days were incapable of EMS under NTVDM anyways,
which is probably why it's disabled by default. For sure, NTVDM is "ancient" code to them, basically unmaintained.
I think DPMI has been heavily preferred over EMS for years, which makes such DPMI bugs all the more painful as it was the only reliable way. 🙁
Anyways, nidud, have you tried the http://www.emsmagic.com/ TSR? It should still work, so that's probably your best bet."
Source: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry … SC&category=all
I suppose that posts like this were the reasons that I did read about EMS Magic at some point and learned about the new limitations of NTVDM in Vista and later.
"The other use for EMS Magic is on Windows Vista systems. Although the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista can run DOS programs, there is no support for EMS regardless of the computer's hardware and memory configuration. In this case, EMS Magic is the only solution for providing EMS for DOS programs."
Source: http://www.emsmagic.com/manual/intro.html
Edit: I'd also like to apologize for my poor English, it must be horrible to read for native speaker (it sounds very wooden I think). 🙁
Finding the right words though is getting more and more difficult for me, not sure why. Maybe some late complications of an unnoticed covid infection.
My hearing lost a few KHz also since this year. Anyway, I should be grateful for being still alive, I guess. Things could be much worse these days.
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