Hardware accellerator issue

smitts2252 · 05-11-2006, 04:52 PM

For the past few months, my hardware accellerator has gone bad...i believe it may be a problem with Direct3D but am not sure.

Symptoms...
-on games that use hardware accelleration either objects are just not there, certain areas (not all) do a sort of blur thing, or the whole screen is doing the 'blur' thing
-one game is saying "cannot initialize DX8, check your Direct settings"

(the blur thing i'm talking about is something like this: say you are playing a FPS, you are looking straight ahead, nothing is wrong. when you turn, it blends all the frames in between together)

What i have done...
-i ran DirectX Diagnostics and all D3D tests were successful
-i have DirectX 9 Installed but can not find a folder for it, all i find is a folder for DirectX 2

What i have...
-i have windows NT with a GeForce 2 MX/MX 400

i would like to know how to fix this but just knowing whats going on would be fine.

Spriggan43 · 05-14-2006, 04:16 AM

Get the latest drivers for your mother board and video card and sound may help..

smitts2252 · 05-14-2006, 10:19 AM

display and sound drivers did nothing...the motherboard is an old AMD and updates aren't compatible with it

ebackhus · 05-15-2006, 08:10 AM

That card is a DX7 device so anything that REQUIRES DX8+ won't run on it. The latest Detonator drivers at www.nvidia.com will work on that card.

smitts2252 · 05-18-2006, 04:26 PM

Thank you...

Rock on

05-11-2006, 04:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
smitts2252 Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3 OS: NT	Hardware accellerator issue For the past few months, my hardware accellerator has gone bad...i believe it may be a problem with Direct3D but am not sure. Symptoms... -on games that use hardware accelleration either objects are just not there, certain areas (not all) do a sort of blur thing, or the whole screen is doing the 'blur' thing -one game is saying "cannot initialize DX8, check your Direct settings" (the blur thing i'm talking about is something like this: say you are playing a FPS, you are looking straight ahead, nothing is wrong. when you turn, it blends all the frames in between together) What i have done... -i ran DirectX Diagnostics and all D3D tests were successful -i have DirectX 9 Installed but can not find a folder for it, all i find is a folder for DirectX 2 What i have... -i have windows NT with a GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 i would like to know how to fix this but just knowing whats going on would be fine.

05-14-2006, 10:19 AM	#3 (permalink)
smitts2252 Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3 OS: NT	display and sound drivers did nothing...the motherboard is an old AMD and updates aren't compatible with it Last edited by smitts2252; 05-14-2006 at 10:34 AM.

05-15-2006, 08:10 AM	#4 (permalink)
ebackhus Manager, Design Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: SATX Posts: 14,284 OS: WinXP Pro SP3/Windows 7 RTM My System Blog Entries: 28	That card is a DX7 device so anything that REQUIRES DX8+ won't run on it. The latest Detonator drivers at www.nvidia.com will work on that card. __________________ ----------------------------- There are no dumb questions, unless a customer is asking them. Help in the fight against cancer and other serious illnesses.

05-14-2006, 04:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
Spriggan43 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 289 OS: win xp 64bit	Get the latest drivers for your mother board and video card and sound may help..

05-18-2006, 04:26 PM	#5 (permalink)
smitts2252 Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3 OS: NT	Thank you... Rock on