White Circles in new iTunes 8 Visualizer on GMA950

Has anyone found a solution yet? This was posted a while back, but the thread was archived.
I noticed that this is not a problem on my MacBook while in MacOS, but as soon as I switch to XP, the problem is there. I have not tried it in Vista or Windows 7 for which the OpenGL drivers might be more up to date.
This issue also occurs on my netbook in XP; said netbook also has a GMA950 integrated graphics chipset. I think it has something to do with certain OpenGL extensions not being supported; I don't have this problem on PC notebooks with either NVidia or ATI chipsets.

Well, I think I'm answering my own question.
Vista and Windows 7's graphics drivers (DX10) can support the reflection. It was probably turned off when iTunes runs on XP to avoid crashes, slowdowns, or something. Anyway, the GMA950 drivers for Vista or Windows 7 work as well with this visualizer as the Mac drivers do in MacOS.
I'm just bummed Apple left out a bunch of other visualizer modes from the Windows versions of iTunes. No fair I say!

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