HELP!!! Need to get a game to think I have a 3D Accelerator Card

[wncads]

Does anyone know how to fool Windows into thinking you have one of their supported 3D Hardware Acceleration Video Cards. I have their new Train Simulator and the system is 550 Mhz with 256 Mb Ram and plenty of hard drive space. I have an 8mb 3D SIS chipset AGP card but it is not in their list of supported cards. I don't care how crappy it runs I just need it to run.. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated... FYI, card is a SIS 530 chipset, 8Mb AGP card... Keith Buchanan
AplusNetworking.com
Commercial I.T. Networking & Wiring Specialist
keith@aplusnetworking.com

 

[JimEkleberry]

Just because a card isn't listed for hardware acceleration doesn't mean that the game won't run. The game will run using software acceleration which is slower.

 

[rjkrash]

I have also found that if you change setting in a MS game that tell it to use hardware acceleration that you should/must quit the program after you have made the config changes and then reboot the machine to get the changes to apply/stick. I went through this for days trying to get LINKs 2002 to recognize my AGP card's capability. Finally I just happend to do the change/reboot steps above and finally everything stuck.

Good luck.... The two rules for success are:
1. Never tell them everything you know.

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[dakota81]

There's a reason why that video card is not listed as being supported - it really does not provide any useful 3D graphics whatsoever. I had a video card once with the SIS chipset, but I had it backed up with a Voodoo2 card. Trust me when I say you will never get anything good displayed on the screen using the hardware acceleration on the SIS chip. If you have onboard video or just don't want to spend much money on a new card, go on eBay and find a Voodoo2 card for cheap, they're not exactly the fastest anymore, but they will work in your system along with the SIS card, and they will give you the 3D graphics you are looking for.

 

[wncads]

When attmepting to run the game it immediately shuts down with an error message from the MS TRAIN SIMULATOR saying that no 3D Accelerator Cards could be found and thus the game is shutting down. So I do have to have something changed to make the game run, as it is the game will not run at all except for displaying the error message. Keith Buchanan
AplusNetworking.com
Commercial I.T. Networking & Wiring Specialist
keith@aplusnetworking.com

 

[rjkrash]

When you install the game doen't it ask or check the video capability?

Try an uninstall/reinstall. reboot inbetween.
The two rules for success are:
1. Never tell them everything you know.

 

[CyberVenom]

Often you can find a driver for even non-3D cards that emulates 3D functionality (very poor quality though). I know I found an unsupported driver from ATI for their Mobility chip that allowed be to (sort of) run Serious Sam, which required 3D acceleration. The graphics were quite slow, and the z-buffer was buggy, but it ran (for about 15 minutes at a time between crashes).

 

[JimEkleberry]

Follow the link below to see what Microsoft has to say about it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q302604