Hello I have a Thinkpad R61 laptop with Intel GM965 chipset and an GMAX3100 graphics media accelerator running windows 7 (3GB ram). Does this graphics card support 3D acceleration ? on windows 7 ? When i use Adobe Photoshop, in the "performance" section, it indicates that OpenGL capability doesnot exist. But as per my search on the graphics media accelerator, I find that OpenGL 1.5 support is available. Also, when i run the dxdiag command, i cannot see any tab with 3D rendering options. (It gives me just 5 tabs, System, Display, Sound1, Sound 2, Input) My graphics card has limited capability for sure. But isn't there some anomaly in this situation ? Is it because i m using windows 7 ?
It does. I can say so with confidence, because my Extensa 5220 has this very chip and runs windows 7 like a charm!
Windows 7 does work like a charm on my laptop, even the Aero interface. I only have certain graphics related issues, more specifically OpenGl and Windows 7 related. My graphics card and chipset drivers are up-to-date. I did that first thing after noticing the problem. Can someone give me an idea about Direct3D. The DirectX diagnostic tool mentions Directdraw acceleration and Direct3D acceleration as enabled. But in Adobe Photoshop, in the "Preferences - Performance" options .. for "GPU settings", I get the message as "Graphics hardware acceleration is unavailable. You will need to upgrade your video card and possibly your video driver." and the "Enable OpenGL drawing" is grayed out. Any reason why ?
