my sapphire video card cannot enable 3D acceleration

[Guest freestonew]

hi all.

 

Oh dear! I tracked a problem, but I need more help in fixing it.

 

I just bought a new sapphire 9600xt, to replace a "crappy" nividia

gf5200.

[yes, the graphic improvements are Treeeemendus!]

I was somewhat mystified when my Gothic II would stop at the game

loading screen when the exe called it up, even though this old card

would not work well, i expected to be able to get maybe to the loading

screen, at least.

 

my new 9600xt has the same problem!

also morrowind will also not load.

but baldurs gate II and neverwinter nights will load.

 

at first i thought this was an issue with the new cd-rw rom.

 

The morrowind files has a "program flow" sheet and it shows that the

loading stops at the video card.

the directx test, while everything shows to be good, the 3d

acceleration just crashes the test back to the desktop, probably this

is why I have these troubles.

 

the smartgart indicates that while the direct draw is enabled, the 3d

acceleration is not, thus only non-accelerated games will load!

 

I tried changing, in the bios, the card TO and From, "enable agp to/

from pci".

....did no good.

 

As I left the computer to come to the library, i checked the

IRQ slots and low and behold the soundcard is on the same 11 IRQ as

the 9600xt!

*this* is not good!

 

SIS741gx motherboard

c-media soundcard, soon to be replaced with a turtle beach santa cruz,

when and if it comes in the mail.

sapphire atlantis 9600xt 256 card.

win98se

 

Could this IRQ thing be the problem?

 

my motherboard only has apparently three slots for cards, the agp, and

two pci slots and the soundcard is on the bottom, probably i need to

move it to the next slot up. Oooooh, there are a LOT of things

demanding those IRQs!

Steerings, holdings.....

can someone please direct me to some good references on how to diddle

with IRQs.

 

What else could be "wrong" here? Seems that right this moment the

card

cannot be 3D accelerated, as it stands.

 

bad card?

I would guess that there must be some conflict somewheres, or a

setting that i have yet to find.

 

too too bad that people have to be a "tech master" just to use a

computer!

 

thanks...freestone

[Guest Jeff Richards]

Re: my sapphire video card cannot enable 3D acceleration

 

There's a description about PCI interrupts here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182604

 

Holders for steering can generally be ignored - it would be unlikely that

they are creating a problem. If you remove them they will be reinstalled

anyway.

 

While interrupt problems are a possibility, I would be also recommend

looking at the device drivers you are using, and the version of DirectX. It

is possible that the two just happen to be incompatible, and changing the

version of one or both would fix the problem.

--

Jeff Richards

MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)

"freestonew" <freestonew@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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> hi all.

>

> Oh dear! I tracked a problem, but I need more help in fixing it.

>

> I just bought a new sapphire 9600xt, to replace a "crappy" nividia

> gf5200.

> [yes, the graphic improvements are Treeeemendus!]

> I was somewhat mystified when my Gothic II would stop at the game

> loading screen when the exe called it up, even though this old card

> would not work well, i expected to be able to get maybe to the loading

> screen, at least.

>

> my new 9600xt has the same problem!

> also morrowind will also not load.

> but baldurs gate II and neverwinter nights will load.

>

> at first i thought this was an issue with the new cd-rw rom.

>

> The morrowind files has a "program flow" sheet and it shows that the

> loading stops at the video card.

> the directx test, while everything shows to be good, the 3d

> acceleration just crashes the test back to the desktop, probably this

> is why I have these troubles.

>

> the smartgart indicates that while the direct draw is enabled, the 3d

> acceleration is not, thus only non-accelerated games will load!

>

> I tried changing, in the bios, the card TO and From, "enable agp to/

> from pci".

> ...did no good.

>

> As I left the computer to come to the library, i checked the

> IRQ slots and low and behold the soundcard is on the same 11 IRQ as

> the 9600xt!

> *this* is not good!

>

> SIS741gx motherboard

> c-media soundcard, soon to be replaced with a turtle beach santa cruz,

> when and if it comes in the mail.

> sapphire atlantis 9600xt 256 card.

> win98se

>

> Could this IRQ thing be the problem?

>

> my motherboard only has apparently three slots for cards, the agp, and

> two pci slots and the soundcard is on the bottom, probably i need to

> move it to the next slot up. Oooooh, there are a LOT of things

> demanding those IRQs!

> Steerings, holdings.....

> can someone please direct me to some good references on how to diddle

> with IRQs.

>

> What else could be "wrong" here? Seems that right this moment the

> card

> cannot be 3D accelerated, as it stands.

>

> bad card?

> I would guess that there must be some conflict somewheres, or a

> setting that i have yet to find.

>

> too too bad that people have to be a "tech master" just to use a

> computer!

>

> thanks...freestone

>