What have forum members found to be the fastest, highest quality half-height PCI-Express, DirectX 10 graphics card? I've currently got an ATI x1300 Pro (256Mb) but would like something that has DirectX10 support and has more and faster memory.
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I own an Alienware Area-51 7500-R5 gaming desktop. I am upgrading to Windows Vista Ultimate x64. I am thinking to upgrade the RAM to 8GB. The only issue is that my system does not support Dual Channel RAM cards. Do they sell single channel RAM cards? I can't seem to find any. Another problem as well, I did a Crucial Memory Scan and it read: Maximum Memory Supported: 4096MB. Does this refer to that I cannot go over 4096MB because of my system or because of the Operating System I am running. I am running Windows XP Pro 32bit. I know 32bit can only process 4GB of RAM or 4096MB of RAM. But does the memory scan refer to the Operating System limit or how much my system can handle overall. When I bought it Alienware said I could do plenty of upgrades on it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm running:
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.73 GHz
3.5 GB RAM
ATI Raedeon Xpress 200M Chipset
Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit
I have recently installed a ATI Radeon HD 4670 into my computer, I downloaded the latest ATI Catalyst driver from the ATI website and it installed the latest driver for both of the video cards, after it restarted I get this error message in the device manager for the ATI Radeon HD 4670:
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38)
I checked in the device manager and it says it has the same wddm driver version for both devices, I have tried installing many times but it continues to presist, is this a Windows Vista or ATI issue? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
System Information:
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Device Manager:
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Running Windows Vista Ult and i installed a second graphics card to run 3 monitors.
The problem is device manager doesn't show the second installed graphics card.
My System:
E6850
GA-x38-DQ6 MoBo
4Gb ram
8800 Ultra
7600GT (This is the card i added)
Basically it recognizes the 8800 Ultra only. I have read that to use dual cards with Vista they need to use the same drivers (169.25), which they do. Even if that wasn't the case shouldn't the graphics card show in device manager regardless?
Is there something about Vista and dual graphics that i am missing?
The 7600GT functions fine, (tested in another computer) so i am at a loss here.
I have 2 Radeon x1950 graphics cards on my A8N32-SLI DELUXE motherboard and cant get them to work as crossfire. Tried many things but was wondering if it was because I'm running windows x64 version of Vista Ultimate
View 3 Replies View RelatedAnybody know if the ATI Radeon HD3650 PCI-E will fit into the Inspiron 531s ? I would probably have to find a better power supply of course. If not, does anyone know any good graphics cards that would fit?
View 9 Replies View RelatedCurrently Windows Vista does not have WDDM support for the Intel GMA950 integrated graphics card. Even though this card is integrated, it supports all of the requirements for Vista Glass. It is just a matter of getting a driver that is compatible with it and vista.
After doing a ton of research, I found that there is another driver that you can actually use for now. There are some problems with it, such if you have a laptop, the external monitor port does not always work but other than that it works great for me on my Lenovo X60.
This is how I got Vista Glass to run on a GMA950:
First, I had to open up device manager. Click on the start menu and type in devmgmt.msc and Enter to load it up.
Once there, expand the Display Adapters section and right click on each device and select Uninstall.
Reboot the computer.
When it restarts, it should install a generic video driver so your screen will still work.
Go back into Device Manager, expand the Display Adapters section again and then right click on the device and select Update Driver.
This time select Browse My Computer for Driver and then Let me pick it from a list.
Go the the Intel section and select the Intel(R) Lakeport Graphics Controller.
Hit OK and install the new driver. Restart your computer.
Once you have rebooted, right click on your desktop and select Personalize again.
Click on Windows Colors and Appearance.
Click on Open classic appearance properties for more color options.
In the Color Scheme box, select Windows Vista Aero.
Hit OK and glass will now load.
If glass does not work for you, go back to Device Manager and ...
It started out small, the one graphics card, PSU, Plenty of slots to upgrade the motherboard, a decent sound card, an O.Clockable CPU, decent DDR3 Ram, and plenty of space to upgrade. See System Specs. So my Dilemma is this.... I have a Single GTX 280 (cost me $860 AUD {Australian Dollar} when this first came out [btw our exchange rate was pretty close to the US one at the time -right before wall street crashed, so equivalent of $750 US roughly - I know a wrought, aye, and the HD4870X2 comes out a week later, I was furious])
Anyway I have a 790i Ultra SLI motherboard (as we all know can house 3 Nvidia VGA's)
I was tempted to get 2 GTX280's and then a GTX275(to do physx calculations - if you know anything about Tri-SLI this actually is FASTER than 3 GTX280's in a TRI-SLI configuration), GTX 280's arent sold in Australia anymore and GTX 285's are... so do you guys reckon I should upgrade? or wait for DX11 cards to come out, build another system and let my girlfriend use this one (she loves gaming too, arent I a lucky *******)
Im looking into the future..., wait!... I see something... its a... a core i7 975 overclocked to 5.5Ghz stable... the next Gen graphics cards from ATI hooked up in Xfire (which WILL kill Nvidia this round -GPU die shrink, Nvidia are focussing their technology on copying Intel's Larrabee, which doesnt seem to be going too well for them, because its all about chips and Nvidia cant Die-shrink even if we gave them millions to do so)..... Im seeing a 1200 Watt PSU, 2x (2560x1200) monitors, a monitor on the Case, Liquid cooling, 24GB DDR3 2000Mhz, and 2 SSD's in Raid, with others complimenting it... Lastly no Price Tag....
Im assuming that Vista has come with DirectX10 already installed on it? Correct? I was wondering if I have to install DirectX 9 on my computer as well to get Medieval II to work since it says that DirectX 9 is required?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen i upgraded my windows xp to vista about 5 days ago it somehow screwed up my computer. My graphics are so bad that i can't play simple games and i know that my graphics card used to work perfectly. I just need to know if it is vista that has changed my graphics card and if it did how can i fix it. Also for Hardware Acceleration, i can not turn it on because i do not have the troubleshoot option in my display settings. My nero will not burn any dvd disc's due to that.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThis may have been answered but I'm slow. I just bought a new system that has Vista 64 on it. I am trying to install [game] and keep getting a message that I need DirectX 9.0c or later. I have DirectX 10 and keep downloading 9.0c. However when I try to load my game I still get the message that I need 9.0c version or later.
View 9 Replies View Relatedk so after listening to all the hype about the directx 10 and evrything i finally got a new graphics card with full directx 10 support and all. where is it? i searched everywhere even on the microsoft website...can anyone guide me how to download it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhere can I download DirectX 10 for Vista? I heard that it should be installed on Vista already but I don't think I have it.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm running Vista 32bit Home Premium on a new PC. I can't install DirectX, depite the file coming from the microsoft website and going through the whole GenuineCheck validation process successfully.
Trying to run DirectX I get this messageInstalling Components part:
'A cabinet file necessary for installation cannot be trusted. Please verify
the Cryptographic Services are enabled and the cabinet file certificate is
valid.'
I have 4GB of RAM and recognized by Vista but DirectX shows only 3070MB.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am currently operating XP Pro 32 bit and Directx 9. In a few days I will be installing from scratch Vista Home premium 64 bit. What I am not sure of is whether my CPU is compliant with Directx 10. It is an Intel Pentium D 915. I have searched Intels site for hours to no avail.
View 9 Replies View Relatedevery time i download and try to install the newest version of directx, i get an error saying that the install can't initialize and that i need to try again later or check my connection. . .
View 6 Replies View RelatedI can't get directx 10 to run on any games I play. For example, Team Fortress 2. The option to change which direcx version to use is grayed out, and it's on direct x 9 on both hardware and software.My specs: I'm running Windows Vista home premium (32 bit), and dxdiag confirms DirectX 10 is installed. I have an Intel Core 2 6600, and 4 gigs of ram. The video card I'm running is the MIS Geforce 8800 GTS, updated to the latest drivers (drivers released may 13th 2008). I have dual monitors, the main one running at a 1680 x 1050 resolution, and my secondary running at a 1280 x 1024 resolution. When I set some game options to run at direct x 10, they will fail to load at all. With more and more directx 10 games on the way.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi have just realized that since installing SP2 i no longer have DirectX 10.1 its reverted to DirectX 10.which was before SP1. Anyone know how i can get 10.1 back?
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with 4gb ram,512mb vga card,celeron d.my problem is why my directX only
recognise 3326mb while the windows and bios startup showing 4096mb(4gb)
I got FSX Deluxe today and after running both disks and installing the game I get a notice saying: "Flight Simulator cannot run because the version of Microsoft DirectX(R) installed on your computer is incompatible. Please reinstall DirectX 9.0 by running Flight Simulator Setup, or download the current version from www.microsoft.com/directx."
I have downloaded the November 2008 Update from several websites and I am able to run them and get to the point that it brings up the "Installing Components" screen and then a notice comes up saying: "Setup has detected one or more DirectX component files are in-use by an application. Please exit all applications before running DirectX setup agian." After that it brings up a screen saying that the installation has failed with a "finish" button. I have closed all files and tried agian, restarted my computer and tried, turned my computer all the way off let it sit and read it a story and tried agian, I have combed through the processes in Task Manager and removed any that I believe could have been using DirectX and tried all the combinations above agian.
I am running a Dell Inspiron 1525 with 32 bit Vista Ultimate, and haven't had problems with any other games up to this point (World of Warcraft, Age of Empires, Halo, ect.). I am sorry if this is a repeat thread, I've been all over the place looking for possible answers and haven't found anything.
My laptop (Hp Pavilion dv6500 Notebook Pc) had a crash yesterday but after shutting it down and restarting it, all seemd to be normal. But today when I wanted to play some Generals I got a nasty suprise. I started up the game and I got a message saying I didn't have the right directx version. This is weird since I've been playing the game for almost a year now on this laptop. Anyway, I thought maybe something got corrupted after the crash. I startend another game just to make sure and it too gave me an error that I didn't had a proper directx version.
So I checked dxdiag and it said I had directx 10 as my latest version, which is what I had before the crash. I've updated all my drivers, reinstalled directx and reinstalled my games but nothing seems to work. I hope someone could point me out a direction that might help me fix this problem. I'm a student I seriously need my games for some relaxation .
I have a brand new latest Intel chipped nVidia SLI PC with Vista Home Premium 64 bit OS. I am trying to update DirectX to 9.0c and get an installation failure which states "A cabinet file necessary for installation cannot be trusted. Please verify the Cryptographic Services are enabled and the cabinet file certificate is valid".
1) Checked that the Cryptographic Services are set to automatic
2) Run DXWebSetup as Administrator
3) Used RegSvr32 across all the crypto DLLs.
4) Unchecked the Certificate check boxes in IE / Tools / Options / Advanced....
I cannot check the validity of the cabinet file certificate as it is probably on-line and I have no idea where it is!! What is frustrating is that all Vista Drivers are signed by my companies Time Stamp Server....maybe the certificate on this cabinet file has expired....anyway - This must be a common problem (judging by the forums) but there is no Microsoft documented solution.
There is what looks to be a November 08 update to DirectX, but on three different machines I have not been able to get the dxwebsetup.exe to work. Every time I run the executable I get “Installing components: Initializing…”, then “Setup could not download the file. Please retry later or check network connection”. The redistributable is still showing Aug. 08.
View 5 Replies View Relatedshould i download it if i'm not a pc gamer? I use Photoshop CS2 and a few video editing programs mainly and my OS is Vista Ultimate 64. My video card is a Radeon 512 mb 128 bit 2600 XT.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi have just got a game that has the option 2 install in directx9 or 10 during installation ? vista has directx 10 i know but although my graphics card is vista compatible it's not a directx10 card. Do i install in directx9 im guessing i probably should but ive read of people having problems with this ! also if i download directx 9 will it write over directx10? i read vista only has parts of directx9 as default included?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAttempted to download Trial version of spore, a error pop up said: "this application has failed to start because d3dx9_27.dll was not found re-installing the application may fix this problem." couldn't figure out what was wrong (even after choosing the yes option to get the directx 9.0 that it offered) didn't notice a change, yet i didn't do much on my computer at that point (possible problem in spider solitaire) Installed Spore on Computer, said didn't have correct DirectX, clicked yes and went through installation of DirectX9 Didn't have d3dx9_27.dll error pop up again, but believed that somehow downloaded something when tried to fix computer when had problem with trial version (husband's computer had pop up,
he found the dll and added it to spore bin, he hasn't noticed similar problem on his laptop, he has a replica of my computer) Noticed that spider solitaire had major problem. Loaded game and noticed major graphics problem. Also noticed that problem let up a small bit as game continued running. Noticed that rendering of creature "skins" was quite slow. Did system restore to day before trial download. Found that spider solitaire looked like it should. Attempted to start spore, got dll error. Did as husband had done, found dll, put in sporeapp folder. Game started, still have graphics problem. Spider solitaire is screwed up again. I have also attempted to update my drivers (no luck)........
I've lost the sound on my laptop and I don't know how to get it back. I have an HP Compaq nx9430 with 2 Gigs of RAM. Everything was going great after a clean install of Vista when all of the sudden (I don't know what happened or updated) the sound stopped working. Now, the strange thing about the sound is that I can uninstall everything, get rid of the dlls and .sys files for the drivers. Do a clean install of the sound drivers from HP's website and I can press my mute button to get the icon in the systray to go to mute and back. There are even little "sound waves" coming from the speaker in the systray. However, when I open Mixer, I can see "Speakers" but in the "Applications" groupbox, Windows Sounds and none of my applications come up. Applications is empty - yes, totally missing Has anyone ever run across this before? If so, what did you do to fix it? I'm at my wits end as I can't listen to music on my laptop while I'm at a coffee shop coding anymore!!
View 6 Replies View RelatedI simply dont know what directx I have now. I cant see it anywhere, but when I try to run and download directx form microsoft site it says that I got one on my computer. But where is it? Its not in the C disk, its not in The D disk. I cant see it in install uninstall programms directory. So how can I see what kind of directx ive got? I would like to completely delete all of it and install a new direct x 10. Some body tell me please how to delete all the existing direct x and where is it?
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I know this probably isn't the correct newsgroup for this question, but here goes.How do you use an SD Card?
I have just bought a new one and used it in a camera. The camera confirms that there are saved photos on the card but when I connect it to the SD slot on the computer nothing seems to happen. I do notice a green light appears next to the slot on the computer as if it is reading something, but, having left it for 10 mins, nothing else has happened.
Recently I had to replace my motherboard AND hard drive, so my computer was basically wiped of everything. I saved the files that I could, and moved them, and they work fine. Before this, the sims 2 (and the EP's that I had for it) all worked perfectly. The problem now is that I do not think DX10 is compatible with TS2, despite the fact that "directx 10 is backwards compatible" (which it does not appear to be.) From what I understand, I cannot uninstall DX10. THis is a little ridiculous; no directx software came with my computer, and I had to install it. DX10 is supposed to have all of the DX 9.0c updates, but what if it doesn't? Is there a way or a place that I can put DX 9.0c files into DX10? Is there some way that I can check the DX10 files to make sure what I need is there? IF those are failed options, is there a program that I can install which will uninstall DX10 so that I can install DX 9.0c?
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