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This is definetely the best thread out of all the microsoft newsgroups. We
talk business and can have fun too. : "LAH" wrote in message ... My son has an X-box which he loves. The computer becomes my daughter's second choice because it's so hard to get her brother off the X-box. We muddle along here fairly well as long as no one gets any unrealistic expectations about what this old computer can do. Anyway, it gives them just one more thing to fight about. Oh, the joys of parenthood! "Dan" wrote in message ... Another consideration could be a video game console because the price is a lot easier on the wallet if only games are the concern. : "LAH" wrote in message ... I hear what you are saying. However, most of the problems I've run into with playing games is that my entire system is just not big enough and fast enough. A case in point: For Xmas my daughter received SimCity4 which is compatible with Windows 98. However, closer inspection reveals it requires 500 MHz and Pentium III or AMD Athion. I have 400 MHz and Pentium II. The game doesn't work on my computer. If I were to upgrade it would probably be to replace the entire system - computer, scanner, printer,etc. However, my bank account tells me this will have to wait. In the mean time if my video card should go belly up I will definitely keep your post in mind. Thanks, Lois "jazz" wrote in message ... You card graphics adapter doesn't really support directX9. the driver has a responce in it that makes the directX9 features render in software mode instead of directly with hardware. I'm only mentioning this because with this type of compatability you won't experience the direct benefit of having a directX9 aplication running. Most should work but might be a little slower then if rendered directly from the video card. My uunderstaning is that the major differences between directX9 and 8 is basicaly the ability to do shading and a couple other festure directly thru the video card instead of software rendering then piping the resulting display out to the video adapter. Of couse if your using a Rage Pro Turbo, you arent probably playing many games that would use the directX9 feature anyways. You might want to think about upgrading to a used gforce 2 or radion (or better) if you can. They should be verry cheap and should give you the feeling of having a new computer when playing some of the modern games. One of the bigest advancments in windows gaming was letting the grapgics card do alot of the work that the proccessor usually does when playing a game. also the Gfoce 2 (and radion i think)cards will have a built in dvd decoder chip making wathing dvds a littler more enjoyable. It is just a thought. "LAH" wrote in message ... Just a few days ago I was able to update the graphic adapter drivers on my old HP Pavilion 8380 ( Windows 98). The display adapter is a Rage Pro Turbo AGP ( ATI). The update was made available in 2002 but I only now found a need and more importantly, the nerve to try the update. This update was not available through HP. I had to go directly to the maker of the video card. I had Direct X 9 and then 9 installed but they never really functioned. After the update things are working great and dxdiag tells me that DirectX 9 is now working. If I could find an update for this old machine perhaps your can find one for yours - at least there is hope. "Butterfly" wrote in message ... I was downloading The Sims 2 and everything was going smoothly until an error message popped up saying "Failed to find DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a Direct X 9.0c compatible graphics adapter and the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer. The application will now terminate." Well, I figured it must be that I have an outdated Direct X, so I downloaded the Direct X 9.0c from microsoft, but when I did I still have the same problem. Please, if someone has any suggestions, email me at . Thank you! |
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