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DirectDraw & Direct3D acceleration not available

Steve

Lifer
May 2, 2004
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My big, beautiful Dell 2405FPW arrived yesterday, and on one of the computers I have it connected to I can't enable DirectDraw or Direct3D acceleration. The card is a VisionTek Xtasy Radeon 9100 PCI 128 and I am using DVI-D. The board is an Asus A7S266-VM/U2 with integrated SiS 740 graphics.

- I've gone into its BIOS and set Primary VGA as PCI card.
- In Device Manager I have disabled the SiS 740.
- I've used ATi Uninstall and Driver Cleaner to clean out all ATi files and regkeys.
- I've used DXBuster to clean out all traces of DirectX.
- I've reinstalled DirectX 9.0c and Catalyst 5.6
- I've also tried lower, much lower resolutions, but still no change.

So, how do I get these things working?
 

BFG10K

Lifer
Aug 14, 2000
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Do you have the latest BIOS and chipset drivers installed for your system?
 

Steve

Lifer
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Peter, your suggestion at TechIMO fixed it. Thanks!


For reference, that is to enable the SiS and just have no monitor attached in Display Properties.