"AGP texture acceleratoin" diabled in dxdiag

[Buggeroo]

I recently bought and installed a HIS Geforce 2 MX 400 64MB card. Had a bunch of stability issues, but now my system seems to run ok after installing all kinds of video/agp drivers and such. Only now in Dxdiag "AGP texture acceleration" is disabled and marked as being "not available" (the card is, of course, an AGP card). Anybody knows what causes this and how to fix it?

My systems is set up as follows:

Acorp 5ali61 motherboard
AMD K6-2 500Mhz
192 MB RAM
ISA NIC (noname)
PCI sound card (also noname)
PCI internal lucent winmodem

Hope that someone know the solution to this as it really bothers me

 

[butchrecon]

Are you using the Detonator Drivers from NVIDIA? I know these enable the AGP texture acceleration. Your issue may come from a crappy driver. You can get the Detonator drivers from:

For Windows 98/ME:

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=windows9x

For Windows 2000:

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=windows2000

For Windows XP:
Same as the above.

hope this helps.
James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

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[Buggeroo]

I have tried both the detonator XP drivers and the drivers from the manufacturers site (which, I think, are basically the same thing). Think I should maybe try some older detonator drivers? btw I am using directx 8.0

I have tried the "Geforce tweak" util and "rivatuner" but since I am not especially much into all the technical terms of 3d acceleration I am not entirely sure which settings to try.

 

[butchrecon]

For the K62 I am not entirely sure if it is even enabled. Was it on your old AGP? James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

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[Buggeroo]

Also I thought that I would mention that in the bottom field in dxdiag under the display tap it says "Problems were found in the system registry. Details are available in the saved text file." Problem is that I cannot seem to find the aforementioned text file, I have tried using the "Save All Information" button, but nothing interesting is disclosed in that file, except advising that I reinstall DirectX, which I have done several times, both with and without uninstalling it first with DirectxBuster. Also under the network tab, there's alot of errors:"The registry information for the service provider 'Internet TCP/IP Connection For DirectPlay' is missing or damaged." and so on for all the components. Also upon starting dxdiag it states that directsound resources are already in use, although it can run the test perfectly. I have no other issues with sound, so I am pretty baffled.

I know this sounds like a complete reinstall of windows, but I was just kinda hoping to awoid it.

Hope this can point someone in the right direction.

 

[Buggeroo]

I know that the texture acc. has previously been available, with my old card (a Winfast3D S320V Riva Vanta 16MB). I read somewhere that on some cards the texture acc. is automatically disabled as there is no use for it when the card has 64MB RAM (it wasn't related to Nvidia based cards though), but I don't see why I shouldn't be able to decide myself, if I want it or not

 

[8track]

I was told that my Radeon 8500 supports that feature too. My AMD 761 mainboard wont let it work either what gives?

 

[Guest_imported]

I've just recently discovered and fixed this on my system. The AGP setting was greyed out and I have a 4x AGP card in my system which is a KT7A Mobo and 1Ghz AMD processor running Win2K. The card is an Elza Erazor X (which is a GEForce 256 chip I think).

The solution wasn't anything to do with the graphics card drivers (which I updated), nor DirectX (which I updated to V8.1) but came from updating the motherboard chipset drivers with the latest VIA 4in1 service pack.

Maybe you should look for a service pack/bios from your MOBO manufacturer??

Hope it helps.

Dave