THREAD NAVIGATION:  
    Where am I?   Original message   Top of thread   Current page 
Displays all thread messages Displays thread map That to which this responds This thread's lead message Your most recent Tavern page

This doesn't look good
06/29/2006, 14:14:50

    Garath writes:

    According to my diagnostic utilities, I have an Intel Celeron processor MMX (~460MHz) with 256 MB of RAM and an S3 ViRGE/DX/GX PCI video controller. I also have DirectX 9.0c. I found a Driver for my card dated 1997 with a note indicating that S3 was no longer going to support the card, and that this would therefore be the last driver written for this video card. After updating the driver, I got a message of "Hardware accelerated Direct3D 8+ is not available because the display driver does not support it. You may be able to get a newer driver from the hardware manufacturer." The 8 and 9 3D draw tests won't execute (because they aren't supported). The rest of the tests pass, but I suspect this means that I will have great difficulty finding a driver that is 100% compatable with both my card and DirectX 9.0c.

    Does anyone see any other software things I can try, or do I need to go looking for a new video card?





Reply to this message   Back to the Tavern  

Replies to this message