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entwisi · 22-03-2007, 12:44

Mel, 3D games have been out for many years, I can guarantee yours will run some games liek Unreal and Forsaken(These being two old but superb ones), driving games like Motorhead ran back in the days of Voodoo IIs so would fly on yours. These are just a couple of examples.

What I have tried to say is that Gfx chips are having more and more features built into then (bump shading/texture rendering etc) and Direct X 9 (and 10) offer programmers an API to use these directly. If they do then any card that doesn't support these features no matter how 'powerful' will have the same problem you have. Its not necessarily a lack of ooomph, more a lack of one or two tiny features being built in.

So if you avoid games that 'need' DX9 then you should be fine DX8 will support your Gfx chip just fine as will any older DX versions.

PS, XP brought DX9 in whether you wanted it or not. Previously teh game would have just reported that your version of DX was not supported, now they let your machine fall over in a big heap. and they call it progress..........

22-03-2007, 12:44	#74
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4389	Re: Blue screen error - help. Mel, 3D games have been out for many years, I can guarantee yours will run some games liek Unreal and Forsaken(These being two old but superb ones), driving games like Motorhead ran back in the days of Voodoo IIs so would fly on yours. These are just a couple of examples. What I have tried to say is that Gfx chips are having more and more features built into then (bump shading/texture rendering etc) and Direct X 9 (and 10) offer programmers an API to use these directly. If they do then any card that doesn't support these features no matter how 'powerful' will have the same problem you have. Its not necessarily a lack of ooomph, more a lack of one or two tiny features being built in. So if you avoid games that 'need' DX9 then you should be fine DX8 will support your Gfx chip just fine as will any older DX versions. PS, XP brought DX9 in whether you wanted it or not. Previously teh game would have just reported that your version of DX was not supported, now they let your machine fall over in a big heap. and they call it progress.......... __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?