Vista Windows Experience Index fails?

[seancorfield]

Vista Ultimate on Parallels 4124

I've managed to get the Windows Experience Index to run just once (before I enabled DirectX). It reported:

Processor: 4.3
Memory: 3.9
Graphics: 1.0
Gaming Graphics: 1.0
Primary hard disk: 5.9 yay! maximum score!

I enabled DirectX in an attempt to get better graphics performance but the WEI won't run. Sometimes it gets part-way through, mostly it quits before it gets to media playback. On at least one occasion, I saw this failure:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: winsat.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Application Timestamp: 4549ae24
Fault Module Name: wined3d.dll
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 46680b5f
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000049fa
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 6abb
Additional Information 2: 4a6fedfa53861218c23add1f0d149e81
Additional Information 3: 1612
Additional Information 4: c90f77e91bb65cd7d42940f6a632dd78

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Bug in Parallels? Fact of life?

Sean

 

[darkone]

kinda both... its caused by the fact that the DirectX implementation is older than the version Vista expects to find, I believe.

 

[seancorfield]

I saw in another thread that Aero support is not in 4124 but is coming in a later release which is good enough for me.