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Since: Jul 27, 2005
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:24 pm
Post subject: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration.
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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,
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:24 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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In article <dc8u1s$9et2$1@news3.infoave.net>, ingramje.TakeThisOut@gmail.com
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.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:30 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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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" <spamtrap RemoveThis @tinlc.lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d51a543e10b31cc98978e@news.supernews.com...
> In article <dc8u1s$9et2$1@news3.infoave.net>, ingramje RemoveThis @gmail.com
> 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 >> Stay informed about: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. |
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:40 am
Post subject: Re: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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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
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:07 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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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"
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"JMI" <ingramje.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dc8u1s$9et2$1@news3.infoave.net...
> 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
>
> >> Stay informed about: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. |
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:55 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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"JMI" <ingramje.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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 >> Stay informed about: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. |
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:34 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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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.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com >> Stay informed about: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. |
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:55 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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"galrumbak" <UseLinkToEmail.RemoveThis@HardwareForumz.com> wrote in message
news:7_316845_ba59ce40f7b919bd607c18cb49f332c8@hardwareforumz.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... >> Stay informed about: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. |
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:55 am
Post subject: Re: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:17:44 -0400, "Jeff Ingram" <ingramje.TakeThisOut@gmail.com>
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
<patrickp.TakeThisOut@5acoustibop.co.uk> - take five to email me... >> Stay informed about: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. |
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:03 pm
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Thanks, I figured that out, but should I really have to do that? Is that
normal? Does your CPU peak when you drag stuff around the desktop?
Thanks,
Jeff
"patrickp" <patrickp DeleteThis @5acoustibop.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:17:44 -0400, "Jeff Ingram" <ingramje DeleteThis @gmail.com>
> 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
>
> <patrickp DeleteThis @5acoustibop.co.uk> - take five to email me... >> Stay informed about: Can't enable Direct3D acceleration. |
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:55 pm
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:03:24 -0400, "Jeff Ingram" <ingramje.TakeThisOut@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Thanks, I figured that out, but should I really have to do that? Is that
>normal? Does your CPU peak when you drag stuff around the desktop?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>
Just say Windows, Jeff. Not only is there so much rubbish in it, but
too much of it is enabled by default. Deselecting Show window
contents while dragging is one of the first things I disable after a
new install.
Patrick
>
>"patrickp" <patrickp.TakeThisOut@5acoustibop.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:m0pkk1dj3qvf92369evjpt80henioc603t@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:17:44 -0400, "Jeff Ingram" <ingramje.TakeThisOut@gmail.com>
>> 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
>>
>> <patrickp.TakeThisOut@5acoustibop.co.uk> - take five to email me...
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:19 am
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:55 pm
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On 11 Oct 2005 15:38:20 -0400, galrumbak
<UseLinkToEmail.DeleteThis@HardwareForumz.com> wrote:
>"" wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:17:44 -0400, "Jeff Ingram"
> > <ingramje.DeleteThis@gmail.com>
> > 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
> >
> > <patrickp.DeleteThis@5acoustibop.co.uk> - take five to email me...
>
>Jeff - you fixed the problem by reinstalling the drivers?
>wich Magic CATALYST ver did you use?
>
>I tried several from 5.9 to 5.6 with no sucess.
>i ran out of option so now i’m preprening for a format & windows
>reinstall.
>
>Gal
Perhaps it's not just a matter of the Catalyst version, Gal. Do you
uninstall the old drivers, reboot and run the ATI - Uninstall Software
Utility (or cat-uninstaller.exe) before reinstalling? It's always
been advisable, and I believe several people have found it to make a
particular difference with recent Catalyst versions.
Patrick
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:52 am
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:55 pm
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"galrumbak" <UseLinkToEmail.TakeThisOut@HardwareForumz.com> wrote in message
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> Thanx,
> but it didn't do the trick.
>
> I'll go on with the format.
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