Current Card : WinFast A400 LE Installed Driver: 77.50 I mainly play WoW using a XP machine running an Intel Pentium M 740 on an Asus P4C800-E. I used to try and keep drivers up to date but I have felt I wasn't seeing any difference after the 77.5 install. Does anyone have any reasons that...

Din to Componet V's DVI to Componet Adaptor whats best for picture Quality ??? Ive got a 6600 Gt and i have got my HD Tv connected via the Din to componet. The quality is pretty good but still a little bit of a let dopwn compared to what the quality of the HD wmv and divx HD thrailers and stuff i...

I recently built a computer (athlon 3700, asus A8N-VM, onboard geforce 6150). The problem I have is that program using direct 3d wont work correctly. The screen show the graphics but they are all distorted (picture cut into 4 triangles and then assembled skewed). Only seems a problem in direct...

Hi, I have an Nvidia GEForce 6600GT. When in DXDiag, I click in Direct3D Acceleration om Test Direct3D. It passes the first stage (Hardware-accelerated 3d 7 interfaces) (I see some cube with DirectX on its faces), but on stage 2 (Hardware-accelerated 3d 8 interfaces) it fails - it waits for about...

Hi, WHen I upgraded my pc recently, I also upgraded my GFX card from a geforce 3ti200 to a geforce 6600. However - I'm finding that a lot of "old" (ie 2 or 3 years) games / demos will not run on the new card - producing errors like "unable to load texture", "Can't initialise direct draw"...

Anybody purchased an NVidia or AMD(ATI) card directly from NVidia or AMD(or previously the ATI site)? Good or bad experience? Thanks, herringjelly

How much difference does a direct X 9 compatible video card make? Most cards that I have been looking at only say direct X 8, however my current card is DX8 yet I can run DX9 games on it. Will DX9 cards support DX9 to some extent? -- remove SPAM to...

I have directx 9.0b installed with an Nvidia 5900Ultra card running on XP home edition on 61.76 drivers. I notice a link for directx 9.0c. When checking the link, it says this version of directx is for software developers. Should I download this? I'm used to seeing a runtime version. Can anyone...

Is DirectX9 a hardware or driver issue? I am thinking of getting a Ti4600 but apparently it does not support version 9. If not which NVIDIA card supports V9 Thanks Bill

The graphics track has everything you need to get the most out of your high-performance graphics engine. Join us as we cover exciting new ground, including the lowdown on the upcoming Direct3D 11 API set. We also cover the recent improvements to PIX (for both Xbox 360 and Windows), giving you tips...

Anyone with a solution or with an idea on how to find the source of the problem, please respond. Thanks. -------------------- Problem: -------------------- Monitor looses sync, goes black (Power Save Mode) and system becomes unresponsive requiring reboot when running the DXDIAG tests for Direct3D...

I purchased an XFX GeForce 6600 GT card that works on my AGP port and have had it for the past year. Have had no problems with it until I recently updated my driver to 91.31. Now whenever I run ANY game that uses DriectX and the Direct3D part of it the games produce the same error and claim they...

Hey I have a computer configuration as , p4 3ghz hyperT, 1gb ram, geforce4 mx pci & quadroFX 500. one monitor connected to quadrofx and one monitor and a tv connected to the gf4. When i run dxdiag it seems that direct3d is disabled on my quadro fx500, does anyone have a suggestion as to...

Hey I have a computer configuration as , p4 3ghz hyperT, 1gb ram, geforce4 mx pci & quadroFX 500. one monitor connected to quadrofx and one monitor and a tv connected to the gf4. When i run dxdiag it seems that direct3d is disabled on my quadro fx500, does anyone have a suggestion as to...

Im having a problem running Diablo 2 in direct3d with my GFX5950. Ive got the lastest directx and nvidia drivers, but when i fire up D2 all i get is this little white line in the top left had corner, kinda like a text cursor but non-flashing. Any ideas?? Cheers guys!

Hello. I just moved all my hardware from a Pentium II 300 (192 MB ram) to a Pentium Celeron 900 (786 MB ram) including my GeForce FX 5200. In the new system Direct3D and OpenGL refuses to work in some programs (a Winamp visualization that uses OpenGL and DXDiag have problems, but the OpenGL...

I have a Ti4200 and I'ven't play too much games for the last 6 months. Today I receive a game and try to run it. But my D3D seems to be problematic now. The monitor will go to sleep/no signal when i run the game. DxDiag indepth test on D3D feature showed the same problem. I'm running DX9.0b,...

Hi normally i play games on my laptop but recently everytime i try to play a game that requires directdraw 3d it says that its not functioning correctly. This has never happened before. I have already tried reinstalling the DirectX...no luck. I also tried running DirectX Diagnostics and it simply...

There is an interesting series of interviews at ExtremeTech on DirectX 10. The interviews: Microsoft: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1982042,00.asp ATI: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1985155,00.asp Nvidia: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1986931,00.asp Game Devs:...

I keep reading on different misc. hardware review sites that DirectX 10 will require new hardware. Anyone have any idea when we will begin to see any of this new hardware? I know that Vista will supposedly make great use of DX10. Also, many of the review sites make reference to quotes from ATI...