Video card or Direct X?

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I would also make sure that I am running the latest AGP port/slot drivers.
This is usually part of the chipset drivers.


"pinkelephants" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, here's the scenario.
>
> Our subject:
> One year old EMachine.
> 1.7 ghz AMD processor
> 512 megs RAM
>
> The problem:
> Doing a simple hardware upgrade for somebody. This person
> is by no means heavily into games, but, the games he does
> play (Links 2003, Deer Hunter types) seem to be bogging
> down his onboard Video. Resolutions have to be set very
> low to play well.
>
> I dropped an old GeForce FX5200 in the AGP slot of the
> PC. It's helping a lot. However....
>
> In Links for example, as you tee off, the golfer
> animation just starts disappearing, as in losing pixels.
> Most of the other animations are ok though.
>
> This same game worked well in a Dell 1.5 Ghz, 256 MB RAM
> of mine with the same video card and DX9.0b.
>
> To let you in on my process, I put the card in, put the
> newest drivers on, then reinstalled DirectX 9.0b.
>
> The scenes are rendering fine and look good, there's just
> an error in the drawing of the animations. I've tweaked
> EVERY setting available trying to find the problem. Doing
> a DXDIAG shows all the directdraw tests finished
> successfully.
>
> I'm stumped...
>
> Only thing that bothers me is, after the DX9 installation
> finished up, I wasn't prompted for a reboot. (I rebooted
> anyways.) I don't know if something didnt' install or
> what.
>
> Any thoughts would be much appreciated.