Curious.. what is the model CPU you are using that is 3.7 GHZ? I didnt think intel had dual core chips above say a 2.7 (or 2.x)?

Cheers

its probably an overclocked core 2 duo

Intel Inspiron 5150 (purchased August 2003), main computer still runs like a charm thanks to my matrix fix

Intel Pentium 4 M 2.8GHz @ 908MHz (yeah, mass underclocked but no performance loss)
Toshiba 60GB 5400RPM IDE HDD
64mb nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 @ 235/470
512MB Samsung PC2700 DDR RAM

Not sure about individual scores (never checked), but overall score was 3.0 (I say was because I went back to XP after finding gaming near impossible on my machine with Vista)
BTW I get just over 3 hours gaming time on my laptop with those settings.

Believe it or not, with ngo video drivers for my card, I could actually run Aero Glass. So, those 'minimum requirements' for aero glass are... well... bullcrap

The GeForce FX 5200 is the minimum requirement.

well a DX9 card is the minimum, the FX Go5200 being at the bottom of the barrel, then yes, in that sense it is the minimum.

But Vista also states the video card must have at least 128MB of RAM and the computer at least 1GB of RAM for Aero Glass. I have 64MB video and 512MB system, no registry hacks, just a driver.

For those of you thinking "musta run really crappy then, being 1/2 the minimum requirements", no, it actually ran really smooth, hence why I was hesitant to go back to Windows XP. After playing a game or two (NFS Carbon, actual races were normal speed; GTA San Andreas was just slow overall)
My only problem is that being on an Inspiron 5150, speedswitch XP is a must, or at least clocking down is. In order to get Vista's power management to work properly for the throttling, I had to go into standby and come back out, afterwards the throttling worked fine.

Looks like I might have a slight problem here. All I get is this:

Anyone know why I get no scores up, and what I can do about it?

first of all i would contact microsoft support and hope you dont get an indian person that you cannot understand (no offense to anyone that may be of that culture), then tell them what the problem is and hope they can help you fix it. Other than that, try doing a system restore or a Complete-PC Backup if your using Vista Ultimate. I hope i could help you out with this.

Well, since System Restore is disabled, I guess that's out of the question...

I managed to pull some info from WBconfig, and I think I'm gonna cry now:

nVidia Geforce LE 7300 w/256 DDR

  

you only get a 2.8 on that card?????? WOW! Something is messed up here!

see if you have the most up-to-date drivers from nVidia for your card

well, I see there's newer driver available. I'll give that a go, and hope for the best
Prolly wont affect my current score, since I can't "re-rate" from the Control Panel...

But, here goes nothing.

Well, new driver didn't do diddley, so I had a go at Google and found the reason and solution.
TweakVI is the culprit. By default it disables access to the experience score plus all features related to this. I got full access once this option had been enabled
But my GFX score is still as crappy as before....

Component	Details	Subscore	Base score
Processor	AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+	4,8	2,8   Determined by lowest subscore
Memory (RAM)	2,00 GB	5,7
Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE	2,8
Gaming graphics	751 MB Total available graphics memory	3,1
Primary hard disk	75GB Free (86GB Total)	5,5
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate

 

Whuups.... forgot to post the solution - just in case anyone else runs into the same problem:

open TweakVI
Miscellaneous Tweaks
Change system folder settings
Control Panel Restrictions II
uncheck Turn off access to the Performance Center core section

If nothing changes, just reboot and all should be well.

thanks for posting that, Snowman (i havent even installed that proggie but who knows, someone might have exactly the same problem)

Snowman - To get a higher GFX score I always go into Windows Classic and 640x480 screen res. It works

hah nice