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OK, thanks!

I finally found it under Start Menu > Control Panel > Personalization > Display Settings, and the slider is already all the way to the right, at 1600 X 1200.  Unfortunately, my display looks great at 2560 X 1600!  Fusion allows me to do this, but not with Boot Camp.

I have a feeling this might be related to the incorrect loading of the graphics driver - would that make sense?  Vista lists the monitor as "Generic PnP Monitor on Standard VGA Graphics Adapter", but I have a GeForce 8800 GT graphics card.  Whenever I try to load in a different graphics driver, I hit a dead end.  Could I get it via selection of the D:\ drive with the Leopard install disc inserted?

The other thing that is goofy about my installation is the audio, which led me to Boot Camp initially.  My Vista installation using Fusion has distorted audio, and the audio driver is a "Creative Audio PCI (ES1371, ES1373)(WDM)".  However, the audio using Boot Camp is a "Realtek High Definition Audio", and it sounds great.  When I tried to load the Realtek driver into the Fusion installation, however, it gave me a C10 error code, and indicated that it could not be loaded.

I'm kind of frustrated, since I know just enough to get myself into trouble.  But, with Fusion I have an installation where the sound is horrible, and with Boot Camp I have an installation with inadequate video and no way to share files with OS X unless I throw some more money at the computer and buy something like Paragon.

Thanks for your help - any other ideas?

Dave

Well, thanks again, but I have no good results.

The first time I attempted to install the nVIDIA driver from the Leopard disc, I got the following error message:

"The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware.  Setup will now exit."

The second time I got a different error message:

"Setup detected that the operating system in use is not Windows Vista [32 bit].  This setup program and its associated drivers are designed to run only on Windows Vista [32 bit].  The installation will be terminated."

Since I purchased this Windows Vista Home Premium w/SP1 32 bit system just several weeks ago, I am getting disgusted with the whole scenario.  I initially registered the software and installed it via my Fusion account, but I am running in the 30-day initial setup time in the Boot Camp account.  Could this be why it refuses to recognize my Boot Camp usage?  Incidentally, how do I register the software so that I can run it in both Fusion and Boot Camp?

And yes, I recognize that VMware tools insists on loading its own drivers, but in this case the Creative Audio driver that is installed gives me distorted audio that makes my skin crawl. The Realtek driver that is installed in Boot Camp sounds just great. 

Thanks again for trying to help!

Dave

DavidTrpt wrote:

And yes, I recognize that VMware tools insists on loading its own drivers, but in this case the Creative Audio driver that is installed gives me distorted audio that makes my skin crawl. The Realtek driver that is installed in Boot Camp sounds just great.

When running Boot Camp, Vista is presented with your real audio hardware. Fusion presents virtualized audio hardware to Vista. In this case, the Creative PCI audio card, because everything under the sun supports Creative stuff. I'd recommend posting on the Fusion forums to figure out how to get audio working properly in Vista, if install the VMWare Tools didn't fix the issue.

DavidTrpt wrote:

Now I need to investigate software which will make it possible to share files between Vista and OS X. 

Additionally, what procedure must I follow in order to authorize Vista to be used in two separate installations on the same computer (Fusion and Boot Camp)?  I initially registered my copy of Vista on the Fusion installation, and installed it under the 30-day trial period on my Boot Camp partition (on the same computer).  Can someone please nudge me in the right direction on this one?

You can install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G on OS X to read/write NTFS partitions. There's also some software for Windows that can read/write HFS+ partitions.

As for Vista in Boot Camp, just activate it with your CD Key. You get a certain number of activations, so you should be okay.

Last edited by Booksley (2008-06-26 11:11 pm)