Radeon 64meg DDR VIVO and DX9.0a

[Loketar]

SInce I have upgraded to XP, I've been having severe
problems with my graphics card. The only way to run any
games is to completely shut off hardware acceleration.
Needless to say, this ain't to optimal. I added DX9.0a at
the same time as XP. Now, any time I try to run a game, it
locks unless I have the hardware acceleration off. Could
this be a problem with DX9.0a or is my graphics card more
likely going bad? How do I go back to a previous version
of DX? All I can find is 9.0 on the web page.

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Well maybe instaed of doing an upgrade do a full install and
another issue could be that when you upgraded you have both win98
and Xp drivers being loaded

Alvin


Loketar wrote:

> SInce I have upgraded to XP, I've been having severe
> problems with my graphics card. The only way to run any
> games is to completely shut off hardware acceleration.
> Needless to say, this ain't to optimal. I added DX9.0a at
> the same time as XP. Now, any time I try to run a game, it
> locks unless I have the hardware acceleration off. Could
> this be a problem with DX9.0a or is my graphics card more
> likely going bad? How do I go back to a previous version
> of DX? All I can find is 9.0 on the web page.

[Les Herrman]

On Wed, 7 May 2003 09:38:05 -0700, "Loketar" >
wrote:

>SInce I have upgraded to XP, I've been having severe
>problems with my graphics card. The only way to run any
>games is to completely shut off hardware acceleration.
>Needless to say, this ain't to optimal. I added DX9.0a at
>the same time as XP. Now, any time I try to run a game, it
>locks unless I have the hardware acceleration off. Could
>this be a problem with DX9.0a or is my graphics card more
>likely going bad? How do I go back to a previous version
>of DX? All I can find is 9.0 on the web page.


Have you gone to the ATI web site and downloaded and installed the
latest XP drivers for your card?

[Alex Nichol]

Loketar wrote:

>SInce I have upgraded to XP, I've been having severe
>problems with my graphics card. The only way to run any
>games is to completely shut off hardware acceleration.
>Needless to say, this ain't to optimal. I added DX9.0a at
>the same time as XP. Now, any time I try to run a game, it
>locks unless I have the hardware acceleration off. Could
>this be a problem with DX9.0a or is my graphics card more
>likely going bad? How do I go back to a previous version
>of DX?

XP actually comes with DX 8, and it may be that DX 9 is not a good idea
for that card, which will not be contributing itself in its hardware and
drivers, so leaving everything to the software of the DX 9 package. You
can''t uninstall DX though - what you could do is a repair reinstall.
Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard disk, then boot the XP CD, start
Setup (do not take 'Repair' at this stage), then after the license
agreement take 'Repair Installation'. This will retain your existing
software installations and most settings. But Updates will have to be
run again (including DX 9, but That's what you want), especially SP1;
and if you have drivers that only arrived with that, like USB 2 ones,
you will need to update drivers for the devices concerned.



--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.

[peter]

It sounds to me (an EX Radeon32 user) that you are using the generic XP =
Radeon drivers.
My Rad32 did that before I upgraded the drivers from the ATI =
website...not the XP update site.
and DX9.0 worked fine with my 32mem card.
peter
"Loketar" > wrote in message =
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| SInce I have upgraded to XP, I've been having severe=20
| problems with my graphics card. The only way to run any=20
| games is to completely shut off hardware acceleration.=20
| Needless to say, this ain't to optimal. I added DX9.0a at=20
| the same time as XP. Now, any time I try to run a game, it=20
| locks unless I have the hardware acceleration off. Could=20
| this be a problem with DX9.0a or is my graphics card more=20
| likely going bad? How do I go back to a previous version=20
| of DX? All I can find is 9.0 on the web page.


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