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Does ANYBODY have a solution for me? Thanks if you do[/b]
Check if you have an AGP slot on your motherboard.
> mermoid wrote:
> sharpeirob wrote:
> It said this.
>
> SiS 651_661FX_741_760_M661FX_M661MX_M741_M760
>
> oh my
>
> Yeah, depending on how much you paid for your comp this is either the
> part where you shrug your shoulders or crawl into a corner crying
> about how the OEM builders have stuffed you up the ass.
>
> *Offers a tissue*
Care to please enlighten me with a more straitforward explanatinon. I guess it is bad...but how bad?
> sharpeirob wrote:
> It said this.
>
> SiS 651_661FX_741_760_M661FX_M661MX_M741_M760
>
> oh my
Yeah, depending on how much you paid for your comp this is either the part where you shrug your shoulders or crawl into a corner crying about how the OEM builders have stuffed you up the ass.
*Offers a tissue*
> It said this.
>
> SiS 651_661FX_741_760_M661FX_M661MX_M741_M760
oh my
> Well my new PC has an onboard graphics card and I had to check
> yesterday if I had an AGP slot and I did! I guess I'm one of the
> lucky ones eh?
Indeed.
> To check if you have an AGP slot, open up your computer and look for
> a brown slot above the white PCI ones.
>
> [URL]http://img78.exs.cx/img78/16/agp1sq.jpg[/URL]
Well my new PC has an onboard graphics card and I had to check yesterday if I had an AGP slot and I did! I guess I'm one of the lucky ones eh?
> Right click on my computer, then click properties, then click the
> hardware tab then click device manager then click the + sign beside
> display adapters, post what it says.
It said this.
SiS 651_661FX_741_760_M661FX_M661MX_M741_M760
> Which computers have AGP slots? Also, my thing IS DirectX9 - my
> computer is only 3 months old, i cant see why it wouldnt have some
> graphics seen as it is so new.
Generally computers that don't have onboard graphics.
You say you have 480mb of RAM.
This means you have onboard graphics.
Do you know why I know?
Because you can't get 480mb of RAM.
You have 512mb, 32mb of which is being used by the onboard graphics chip.
512 - 32 = 480.
And yes, I'm very sure you have DirectX9 installed on your computer, as it's included in Windows XP SP2 (and 1?), but this is not the same as having a DX9 compliant graphics card, and you've already posted that your chip "doesn't support pixel shader 1.1", which means it isn't even DX8 compliant.
To check if you have an AGP slot, open up your computer and look for a brown slot above the white PCI ones.
[URL]http://img78.exs.cx/img78/16/agp1sq.jpg[/URL]
A DX9 graphics card is one that supports Vertex and Pixel shaders v2.0+, as well as whatever other extras DX9 includes.