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Hardware Acceleration
Name: bobhov Date: February 22, 2003 at 12:26:21 Pacific OS: Win98SE v. 4.10.2222 CPU/Ram: 266PentII / 192Mb
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Recently installed MS Train Simulator. When I try to run it I get a message that it requires Hardware Acceleration. I am running DirectX 8.0 and have a IBM Thinkpad Cyber 9397 (Trident) video card. What is problem and how do I fix?
Name: randyl Date: February 22, 2003 at 12:34:34 Pacific
Reply:
Not familliar with Cyber 9397 Vid adapter. Is it a 3D accelerator like Nvidia GeForce or ATI Radeon?
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Response Number 2
Name: randyl Date: February 22, 2003 at 12:52:03 Pacific
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try this. On open area of desktop, right click, select properties. Click on settings tab.At the lowwer right click advanced button. Now click performance tab. Make sure Hardware acceleration is set to Full.
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Response Number 3
Name: johnoh Date: February 22, 2003 at 13:28:25 Pacific
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Many games will only run on graphics cards that have native 3D hardware acceleration.
I suggest you download the Sandra utility here:
http://download.com.com/3001-2086-10121527.html
... then install it and run the DirectX Info module. That will tell you whether your graphics card has 3d hardware acceleration.
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Response Number 4
Name: randyl Date: February 22, 2003 at 14:00:41 Pacific
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Try Clicking Start > Run and typing dxdiag in the Run dialogue box. This is microsoft's direct x diagnostic tool.
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Response Number 5
Name: ding Date: February 22, 2003 at 14:35:52 Pacific
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so if you don't have a 3d card, then you cannot run the game, simple as that. No way to get the game playing until you buy one.
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Response Number 6
Name: bobhov Date: February 28, 2003 at 19:26:13 Pacific
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To answer a few: I have run the diagnostics and it gives me a clean everything is ok for 3D et al. I get nice spinning cube. The acceleration is set to full as suggested.
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