3d Capable video card???

Sat Mar 08, 2003 4:15 pm by Awstriker

I try to play the game and an error keeps coming up saying "freelancer did not detect a 3d capable video card on your system....". I have an abit geforce 3 and it had no problem with the demo. I have direct x 9 installed and all the latest drivers. i have followed microsofts prompts on how to fix it but none of these seem to resolve the problem. Can any one help?

Sat Mar 08, 2003 9:26 pm by initnull

install the most recent detonator from nvidia
and if it dont works, tell me, maybe i have an idea.

Sat Mar 08, 2003 10:30 pm by Awstriker

I had already got latest driver. So i went into dxdiag and my direct3d test was failing on test no.8 (the second one). so i turned off direct 3d. Freelancer still didnt work (no suprise there). So i enabled the direct 3d again. NOW IT WORKS!!!!. I have no idea why turning direct 3d off then on again helped. So i'm happy now.

Sun Mar 09, 2003 3:57 am by roland19d

Please post suggestion anyway. I'm having the same problem and have tried numerous workarounds to get freelancer running but no luck so far. Here's the specs:
Dell Dimension 4550
Pentium 4 2.00 GHZ
Windows 2000 Server (i know...i know... that may be the problem right there)
NVidia GeForce4 MX 420 (i've tried with nvidia xp/2000 40.72 and 41.79 drivers) with 384 MB of RAM and 64 MB on the chipset
Direct X 9.0

When I run dxdiag "Display" I'm able to pass all direct Draw tests but when trying Direct3d acceleration tests I get the following errors:

Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x887602eb (error code)
Direct3D 8 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8007000e (Out of memory)
Direct3D 9 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8007000e (Out of memory)

I've tried everthing I can think of including upgrading the bios on the system and am going to have to just ship it back to MS for a refund if I don't get it up and running soon.

thanks in advance.

Sun Mar 09, 2003 5:15 am by Darkside

How much RAM do you have Roland?? And also what do you have set for your virtual memory?

Sun Mar 09, 2003 5:24 am by roland19d

nevermind. My bad. I had negelected to update my chipset. DirectX appears to be working correctly now.

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