When I launch Halo however, it starts to go, but then tells me that is sees the card, but can’t start up DirectX 3DDraw. or something. It says Hardware Acceleration may be off.
I ran the dxdiag program from the run menu and Hardware Acceleration IS ON.
Any ideas? I am baffled and a little ticked off my (expensive for me) video card isn’t doing what I want it to. big surprise
What else does your comp have in it?(ram, proccesor etc) and dont let the amount of memory in a video card fool you. Some 256mb cards might as well have 128, I could be wrong in your case but an agp card that puts 256mb to use for 50$ is an almost impossible buy.
Im not sure if it is the same in your case but it wouldnt suprise me. As far as your problem I dont have much accept maybe uninstall and reinstall drivers for card. Besides that your gonna have to find someone more vid card savvy then me.
The AGP bus is a 32-bit, 66MHz one. It’s basically a faster PCI bus set aside for video cards, so technically, it’s correct. The physical connector may be different. AGP and PCI slots are physically incompatible with each other, so you either have an AGP card or you don’t.
What version of DirectX do you have? You may want to make sure that’s up to date before updating your video card drivers.
When you type dxdiag in run, first thing you see in system tab is a list of specifications which you got and the version of directX is at the end of those specifications.
In regards to querry I have no idea at the moment but will search for it.
