How do i find out if i have a 3d card i have this

[terryeg]

game that says "no 3d hardware found"? i have a new computer does it not come with 3d hardware

 

[pmonett]

Well did it specify 3D-enabled somewhere on the invoice when you bought it ? Did the list of components state that a 3D-card was included ?
If not, you're only solution is to go buy a 3D card.

 

[paparazi]

Unusual, because even integrated graphics these days are 3D compatible so although performance would be low with such a solution the hardware support should still be there. (integrated means a motherboard chipset that has built in graphics capability and uses shared system ram to run)
Obviously a seperate dedicated AGP graphics card will be superior to onboard VGA for gaming and 3D apps.
Note* sometimes games require VGA shared memory settings in the bios to be set to 16mb or over to work.
A simple adjustment can be made by entering the bios and upping the setting to 32mb or even 64, remember by allocating more memory resources to the graphics you take it away from other things (not a problem if you have more than 256mb in the first place, XP users)
So if you are running XP OS and only have 128mb memory you don't want to be giving the graphics half of it. Martin


Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[mjinks61]

Another possibility would be the version of DirectX you are running. For instance, if the game required DX8 and you only had DX7 installed, you would get this type of error.
I would recommend making sure you have the latest driver for the video installed, and the highest level of DirectX it will support.
You can find out which board you are using through device manager, then go to the manufacturers site for updated drivers.

Good luck, and Happy Computing

 

[ANFPS26]

Make sure your Hardware acceleration is turned all the way up to Full.
Right click My Computer, Properties, Performance, Graphics.
(That's for Win98. I have no idea where it is in WinXP)

Jim

 

[Comtech]

Go to Start > Run > and type in: dxdiag
On the "Display" tab, make sure that all 3 buttons are ENABLED.

Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[squidman]

He probably has the Intel integrated Graphics, and the game he runs has OpenGl HW acceleration, with which Intel's cards have problems (even with the newest drivers)

 

[fenn007]

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