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Can't enable Direct3D acceleration.
Hello,
I can't seem to enable Direct3D acceleration. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden I can't run any of my games. When I try to run Unreal Tournament 2004 I get the message: "Please enable Direct3D acceleration. You can do this by starting dxdiag and enabling Direct3D Aceleration in the Display 1/2 tab after installing DirectX 8.1b (or later) and the latest drivers for you graphics card." None of my other games will work eithere.When I open dxdiag and go to the Display tab, under DirectX Features Direct3D Acceleration says "Not Available" along with DirectDraw and AGP Texture Acceleration. All are unavailable. I have DirectX 9.0c installed and an ATI Radeon 9600XT 256 video card. I've tried reinstalling the video drivers and DirectX too. I've also noticed that 2d accleration must be suffering too since everything takes much longer to redraw on my Windows XP desktop. Ideas? Thanks, Jeff |
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Here are my system specs:
2.8 Ghz Dell Dimension 4500 1 Gig of RAM 1 36Gig Western Digtial Raptor 10,000 RPM drive 1 250Gig Maxtor 7200RPM w/16mb cache 1 8x Sony DVD-RW 1 Lite-On 52X CD-RW Sound Blaster Audigy 2 256MB Sapphire 9600XT I've got the latest motherboard chipset installed. I've had this card for over a year and I've never had this happen. I'm not using "the latest" ATI drivers since ATI recommends having Service Pack 2 installed (which I do not). I don't understand why all of a sudden I would loose 3D acceleration capability when its worked fine without having to do anything special for well over a year. Ideas? Thanks, Jeff "Bill" wrote in message ... In article , says... Hello, I can't seem to enable Direct3D acceleration. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden I can't run any of my games. When I try to run Unreal Tournament 2004 I get the message: "Please enable Direct3D acceleration. You can do this by starting dxdiag and enabling Direct3D Aceleration in the Display 1/2 tab after installing DirectX 8.1b (or later) and the latest drivers for you graphics card." None of my other games will work eithere.When I open dxdiag and go to the Display tab, under DirectX Features Direct3D Acceleration says "Not Available" along with DirectDraw and AGP Texture Acceleration. All are unavailable. I have DirectX 9.0c installed and an ATI Radeon 9600XT 256 video card. I've tried reinstalling the video drivers and DirectX too. I've also noticed that 2d accleration must be suffering too since everything takes much longer to redraw on my Windows XP desktop. Ideas? Thanks, Jeff Do you have the agp driver for whatever chipset your MB is running installed? It would help if you gave more information about your hardware setup. Bill |
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Hi. This maybe a bit far fetched, but what about your system cache
settings. (swap file) I once got this kind of problem when I increasead system cache to 2G. Ati writes about problems with large memory in some display driver readme's, maybe this is it. Now my system cache is about 1533M My machine: Xp pro sp2 Ati club 9800 pro 128 1G ram 3 hard drives LM |
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I get this problem whenever I update my Catalyst drivers, but it goes away
after two reboots. Go to Start - Run and type "services.msc". Make sure the process ATISmart is set to "automatic" -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "JMI" wrote in message ... Hello, I can't seem to enable Direct3D acceleration. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden I can't run any of my games. When I try to run Unreal Tournament 2004 I get the message: "Please enable Direct3D acceleration. You can do this by starting dxdiag and enabling Direct3D Aceleration in the Display 1/2 tab after installing DirectX 8.1b (or later) and the latest drivers for you graphics card." None of my other games will work eithere.When I open dxdiag and go to the Display tab, under DirectX Features Direct3D Acceleration says "Not Available" along with DirectDraw and AGP Texture Acceleration. All are unavailable. I have DirectX 9.0c installed and an ATI Radeon 9600XT 256 video card. I've tried reinstalling the video drivers and DirectX too. I've also noticed that 2d accleration must be suffering too since everything takes much longer to redraw on my Windows XP desktop. Ideas? Thanks, Jeff |
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"JMI" wrote in message ... I've got the latest motherboard chipset installed. Have you reinstalled them recently? Particularly the AGP chipset ones? If not do that and report back. Also reinstall DirectX |
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"galrumbak" wrote in message news:7_316845_ba59ce40f7b919bd607c18cb49f332c8@har dwareforumz.com... "" wrote: Hello, I can't seem to enable Direct3D acceleration. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden I can't run any of my games. When I try to run Unreal Tournament 2004 I get the message: "Please enable Direct3D acceleration. You can do this by starting dxdiag and enabling Direct3D Aceleration in the Display 1/2 tab after installing DirectX 8.1b (or later) and the latest drivers for you graphics card." None of my other games will work eithere.When I open dxdiag and go to the Display tab, under DirectX Features Direct3D Acceleration says "Not Available" along with DirectDraw and AGP Texture Acceleration. All are unavailable. I have DirectX 9.0c installed and an ATI Radeon 9600XT 256 video card. I've tried reinstalling the video drivers and DirectX too. I've also noticed that 2d accleration must be suffering too since everything takes much longer to redraw on my Windows XP desktop. Ideas? Thanks, Jeff JMI I have the same problem - all the accleration in dxdiag are N/A more over we have the exact same card - sapphire reddon 9600 xt 256mb, well if you did manege to fix this please contact me - I have been fighting this for a mounth with no sucess. Gal galrumbak RemoveThis @yahoo.com This normally means you have to re-install your mobo drivers... |
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Miraculously, all I did was reinstall the video drivers one more time and
that seems to have fixed it except I think there is a problem with 2D acceleration. I have no problem playing games like Unreal Tournament 2004 and getting 60+ frames per second, but I've notice that anytime I drag a window (any window) around the screen my CPU usage spikes. So I think it's only sorta fix.......(?) Jeff "galrumbak" wrote in message news:7_316845_ba59ce40f7b919bd607c18cb49f332c8@har dwareforumz.com... "" wrote: Hello, I can't seem to enable Direct3D acceleration. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden I can't run any of my games. When I try to run Unreal Tournament 2004 I get the message: "Please enable Direct3D acceleration. You can do this by starting dxdiag and enabling Direct3D Aceleration in the Display 1/2 tab after installing DirectX 8.1b (or later) and the latest drivers for you graphics card." None of my other games will work eithere.When I open dxdiag and go to the Display tab, under DirectX Features Direct3D Acceleration says "Not Available" along with DirectDraw and AGP Texture Acceleration. All are unavailable. I have DirectX 9.0c installed and an ATI Radeon 9600XT 256 video card. I've tried reinstalling the video drivers and DirectX too. I've also noticed that 2d accleration must be suffering too since everything takes much longer to redraw on my Windows XP desktop. Ideas? Thanks, Jeff JMI I have the same problem - all the accleration in dxdiag are N/A more over we have the exact same card - sapphire reddon 9600 xt 256mb, well if you did manege to fix this please contact me - I have been fighting this for a mounth with no sucess. Gal galrumbak RemoveThis @yahoo.com -- Posted using the http://www.hardwareforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/ATI-en...pict59591.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/eform.php?p=316845 |
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:17:44 -0400, "Jeff Ingram"
wrote: Miraculously, all I did was reinstall the video drivers one more time and that seems to have fixed it except I think there is a problem with 2D acceleration. I have no problem playing games like Unreal Tournament 2004 and getting 60+ frames per second, but I've notice that anytime I drag a window (any window) around the screen my CPU usage spikes. So I think it's only sorta fix.......(?) Jeff snjp Sounds like you need to go to Display Properties - Effects and deselect Show window contents while dragging, Jeff. Patrick - take five to email me... |
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