Agreed! That's the first item in the Troubleshooting section.
Cheers,
Jimmy.
| Do not forget to also update your motherboard chipset drivers. These
| usually conatin the AGP slot driver, which should give you the AGP control
| settings you are looking fo.
|
|
| "Jimmy S." <Private> wrote in message
| | > Hi Patrick,
| >
| > The first thing to troubleshoot are the drivers as they are
| > the key to successfully using hardware acceleration.
| >
| > Updating video card drivers can solve most gaming issues. Here's some
| > simple abc's to always keep in mind. a. Shut off download accelerators,
| > firewalls and antivirus programs when downloading or installing updates;
| > b. Check for game patches:
www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
| > c. Make sure you meet the game's minimum video and system requirements;
| > d. Check for known issues with your video card at the game's web site.
| >
| >
| > 1. Before you update your drivers, I recommend that you install DirectX
| > 9.0c:
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...11-62fe-4f61-aba1-914185249413&displaylang=en
| >
| > Please look over the ATI articles about their latest driver on the
| > download page.
| > They list Installation Tips, Fixes, and Release Notes with important
| > information.
| >
| > 2. Download the latest Catalyst driver for ATI Radeon or All in Wonder
| > Card:
| >
| > Win XP/2000:
http://ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp.html
| > Win 98/Me:
http://ati.com/support/drivers/winme/radeonwdm-me.html
| >
| > 3. Save the .exe driver in My Documents\My Drivers\ATI
| >
| > 4. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
| > about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
| >
| > 5. Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
| > Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
| > the adapter, pick "Uninstall", and click No if asked to reboot.
| >
| > 6. Use Control Panel / Add-Remove programs to uninstall the
| > previous driver (exe)software which may have been installed.
| >
| > 7. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
| > about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
| >
| > 8. If Windows prompts you to install the adapter, click "Cancel".
| >
| > 9. Double click the ATI driver we saved to My Documents\ My
| > Drivers\ATI folder in step 3 to install.it. If it complains about
| > Windows Logo Certification just click "Continue". This is normal.
| >
| > 10. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
| > choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 800x600 or higher Resolution.
| >
| > TROUBLESHOOTING:
| >
| > Test your drivers using DXDiag: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
| > Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
| > If any of the Display options are Disabled and you cannot Enable them,
| > your most likely solution would be to update your Chipset Drivers as per
| > my website:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/Video.html#v11
| >
| > Your program might not support dual monitors, or "dual head" video cards
| > You can disable the extra video output in your display properties control
| > panel. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced.
| >
| > Along with your Video card, Sound Cards, Motherboard Chipsets,
| > and Video Monitors may also require updated drivers. Even your
| > motherboard's BIOS may need to be updated for compatibility with
| > your Video card. These steps are listed at:
http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk
| >
| > Perhaps the old ATI drivers did not completely uninstall. If that's the
| > case, use these utility to completely uninstall the drivers and go to step
| > 7:
| >
http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/ (works for all cards including
| > nvidia)
| >
| > The latest video drivers sometime don't work with a particular game.
| > (Check the Video suggestions in the readme.txt file in your game
| > folder/CD)
| > If there's no suggestions, try an older (WHQL) driver, and/or if you still
| > experience problems try a Beta driver, or even an Omega driver instead:
| >
| > BETA Drivers:
http://download.guru3d.com/
| > OMEGA Drivers:
http://www.omegacorner.com/
| >
| > There you have it, if you have any questions feel free to post them!
| >
| > --
| > Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
| > Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
| >
| > Game FAQs:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
| > Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite:
http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call /
| > Contact
| > MS Support at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top
| > My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
| > rights.
| > _________________________________________________________
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > | >> If I go in settings, display, hardware, the combobox for harware
| >> acceleration is grayed out and cannot select it. I did verify that all
| >> acceleration option are ON in the DXDIAG application"
| >>
| >> Any hint????
| >>
| >> Thanks
| >
| >
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