Microsoft Windows Vista™ will favor newer and relatively more powerful machines when it comes to showing its true colors. What do you need to know about Diamond Multimedia and Windows Vista ? Well, to gain the full Windows Vista user interface experience, a PC with a graphics card that supports DirectX 9 will be needed at the minimum—not all of today's hardware has the graphics chops necessary to display Windows Vista's most visually compelling feature…Windows Vista Areo™.

Windows Aero builds on the basic Windows Vista user experience and offers Microsoft’s best-designed, highest-performing desktop experience. Using Windows Aero requires a PC with a compatible graphics adapter and running a Premium or Business edition of Windows Vista. Certain key feature that will utilize the graphics card.

Glass
Aero features windows that are truly translucent.

Taskbar Thumbnails
With Windows Aero, live taskbar thumbnails show you the contents of the windows that are currently open, in the background, or minimized in the taskbar.

Windows Flip
Windows Flip is an update of the feature known as ALT+TAB in previous versions of Windows. With Aero, Windows Flip shows you live thumbnails of your open windows

Windows Flip 3D
Windows Flip 3D creates a view of your open windows in a three-dimensional stack on your desktop using the ALT + TAB feature

Smoother Windows Performance
When using Windows Aero, open windows glide smoothly on your screen when you move or resize them. There are no redraw artifacts, latency, or "tearing" effects that you sometimes see, particularly in windows that display dynamic content such as video. Using Aero will even reduce legacy graphics driver-related problems on your system, giving you an even more confident and stable Windows desktop experience.

Glass	Taskbar Thumbnail	Windows Flip	Windows Flip 3D

Windows Vista logo	Vista Experience	Key Graphics Features for Windows Vista™	ATI Graphics Solutions
		The classification "5" means that you will be able to enable all Windows Vista Aero™ features Windows Aero Incredible DX9 graphics performance HD 1080p video/media	Viper Radeon® HD3800 Viper Radeon® HD2900 Viper Radeon® X1950 PRO Viper Radeon® X1950
		The classification "4" means that you will be able to enable select Windows Vista Aero features Windows Aero High DX9 graphics performance HD 720p video/media	Viper Radeon® HD2600XT Viper Radeon® X1650 PRO Viper Radeon® X1600 PRO
		The classification "3" means that you will be able to enable minimum Windows Vista Aero features Windows Aero Good DX9 graphics performance HD 480p video/media	Viper Radeon® HD2600 Viper Radeon X1300PRO Stealth Radeon X550 Stealth Radeon 9550 BizView BV300
		The classification "2" means that you can not enable any Windows Vista™ Aero features. Increased Stability DirectX 9 Graphics	Stealth Radeon HD2400 Stealth Radeon X300SE HM