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my 9600 cannot enable 3D acceleration!
hi all.
Oh dear! I tracked a problem, but I need more help in fixing it. I just bought a new sapphire 9600xt, to replace a "crappy" nividia gf5200. [yes, the graphic improvements are Treeeemendus!] I was somewhat mystified when my Gothic II would stop at the game loading screen when the exe called it up, even though this old card would not work well, i expected to be able to get maybe to the loading screen, at least. my new 9600xt has the same problem! also morrowind will also not load. but baldurs gate II and neverwinter nights will load. at first i thought this was an issue with the new cd-rw rom. The morrowind files has a "program flow" sheet and it shows that the loading stops at the video card. the directx test, while everything shows to be good, the 3d acceleration just crashes the test back to the desktop, probably this is why I have these troubles. the smartgart indicates that while the direct draw is enabled, the 3d acceleration is not, thus only non-accelerated games will load! I tried changing, in the bios, the card TO and From, "enable agp to/ from pci". ....did no good. As I left the computer to come to the library, i checked the IRQ slots and low and behold the soundcard is on the same 11 IRQ as the 9600xt! *this* is not good! SIS741gx motherboard c-media soundcard, soon to be replaced with a turtle beach santa cruz, when and if it comes in the mail. sapphire atlantis 9600xt 256 card. win98se Could this IRQ thing be the problem? my motherboard only has apparently three slots for cards, the agp, and two pci slots and the soundcard is on the bottom, probably i need to move it to the next slot up. Oooooh, there are a LOT of things demanding those IRQs! Steerings, holdings..... can someone please direct me to some good references on how to diddle with IRQs. What else could be "wrong" here? Seems that right this moment the card cannot be 3D accelerated, as it stands. bad card? I would guess that there must be some conflict somewheres, or a setting that i have yet to find. too too bad that people have to be a "tech master" just to use a computer! thanks...freestone |
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my 9600 cannot enable 3D acceleration!
"freestonew" wrote in message
oups.com... As I left the computer to come to the library, i checked the IRQ slots and low and behold the soundcard is on the same 11 IRQ as the 9600xt! *this* is not good! PCI/AGP devices usually have no problems sharing an IRQ. There is an option in most BIOSes along the lines of "assign IRQ to VGA". You can toggle it and see what happens. SIS741gx motherboard c-media soundcard, soon to be replaced with a turtle beach santa cruz, when and if it comes in the mail. sapphire atlantis 9600xt 256 card. win98se Typically, lack of 3D acceleration can be traced to an outdated or missing AGP GART driver. Download the latest SiS AGP driver he http://www.sis.com/download/agreemen...hp?id= 155871 Some games have an autoconfig utility. You need to run it after making any major changes so the game could re-detect the hardware. -- "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." |
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