Video driver update

[Joshua]

Well I dled world of warcraft but when I try opening it says : World of Warcraft was unable to start up 3D acceleration. Please make sure DirectX 9.0c is installed and your video drivers are up to date.


Well I downloaded DirectX but it still says the same thing. Now I need to know how to update my video driver, Thanks.

 

[torrentg]

We need to know your card to help. Run GPU-Z. It will say which it is.

GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility

 

[Joshua]

So I need to download it?

 

[torrentg]

Yeah. Then open it after. It will say what card you have. Then you could tell us so we can direct you to the correct driver page.

 

[Joshua]

 

[Joshua]

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/184/36820386.png

 

[Joshua]

Well?

 

[torrentg]

Wow, that's a really old card from 2001. I'm not sure which driver would be applicable to that because the ATI/AMD Catalyst driver probably will not support that any longer. Most likely, an old version of a Vista driver for that card will work. I'm checkin around for ya. I'll post back if I come up with something.

 

[Joshua]

Ok, thanks.

 

[torrentg]

Unfortunately, it seems that the RV 100 was not even supported in Vista judging by this old driver version:

ATi Radeon Beta Catalyst 4.6 download from Guru3D.com

So unless I'm wrong, there is no driver for your card. Others will see this and comment if they know anything else, I'm sure.

 

[MUff1N]

I'd say that your system doesn't meet the minimum requirements as you only have DX6 & you need DX9.0c & your graphics processing chip doesn't meet them either... Sorry

Minimum System Requirements

Windows® System XP/XP64/Vista/Vista64 OS:

- Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+
- 512 MB or more of RAM (Vista requires 1024 MB or more of RAM)
- 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM, such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or better
- DirectX® 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers
- 15.0 GB available HD space
- 4 x CD-ROM drive
- Broadband Internet connection
- For voice chat, an SSE enabled CPU is required.

 

[Joshua]

Im not using Vista though. It's weird though because yesterday I switched to Win7 but on xp I could play WoW no problem.

 

[Joshua]

How come I downloaded DirectX though. When I download it it tells me where to extract them and then thats all...

 

[Joshua]

Any help?

 

[Joshua]

Anyone?

 

[MUff1N]

If I were you I'd run the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer & not the stand alone redistrib installer.

This will install everything that's required for your particular chip & install it to where it needs to go without your interaction needed.

This is what I used & after the installation all my games played just fine.