NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT not suitable?

[johnds]

Is the NVIDIA 9500GT card really not suitable for open rails?

As far as I can tell, everything is set for max 3D video acceleration, etc. 'dxdiag' reports 3D acceleration is on and all tests are successful.

Yet every time I try to run Open Rails I get the message:

"No suitable graphics card found"

9500GT has 1 MB memory, the computer is a dual core Intel Pentium at 2.5GHZ per core with 2 MB DDR2 memory. Plug & Play Acer 19" wide screen monitor.

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

TIA

John
In DAR country where the trains don't run no more!

[longiron]

You have plenty of GPU to run Open Rails.

Can you run dxdiag.exe to see what Directx level you are at.

It's recommended you're at Directx 9.0c

[johnds]

NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT

Yes, I am at DirectX 9.0C

[muskokaandtahoe]

As far as I can tell, everything is set for max 3D video acceleration, etc. 'dxdiag' reports 3D acceleration is on and all tests are successful.

Yet every time I try to run Open Rails I get the message:

"No suitable graphics card found"

Open Rails does not check the video system for anything... it's assumes the system has a card there somewhere. So any error you see then is some sort of conflict between the .XNA framework and what you've done w/ the video config. Perhaps the best way to to check on this would be to temporarily revert the video config to default mode and see what happens when you run OR. If it works, then go back into the video config and adjust one setting back to what you have now and run OR again. Repeat with other settings until you get all of them back to the current setting -- or it fails. If it does fail again, could you let us know what setting you changed to cause that failure?

[johnds]

Still no joy

I have reverted the video card to default settings. (I think it was already in that mode; I don't think I changed anything.)

I discovered that I had some ATI stuff left over from a previous video card; it is now gone.

I uninstalled XNA 3.1 Redistributable and reinstalled it.

No joy.

Running XP Home SP3. Example MSTS being tried is default Marias Pass with one of the original activities, but it doesn't seem to matter what I try.

John
In DAR country where the trains don't run no more.

[johnds]

Anyone get Open Rails to run with 9500 GT?

Has anyone been able to run Open Rails with an NVIDIA 9500 GT video card and 1GB of onboard memory?

I have an Intel Dual core 2.5 GHz processor with 2 GB of memory. The motherboard is an ASROCK G31M-GS. Windows XP SP3 with all the DirectX and XNA stuff that's supposed to be present.

What changes did you make from the default settings?

I keep getting the same message every time:

"No suitable video card found. Please make sure that 3D acceleration is turned on.......
This program requires Pixel Shader 1.1 and Vertex Shader 1.1"

Where do these shaders come from?

Any help appreciated, thanks

John
In DAR country where the trains don't run no more.

[longiron]

I keep getting the same message every time:

"No suitable video card found. Please make sure that 3D acceleration is turned on.......
This program requires Pixel Shader 1.1 and Vertex Shader 1.1"

Where do these shaders come from?

Any help appreciated, thanks

John

John,
You have more than enough horsepower to run OR - CPU and GPU. These messages are from the XNA framework, not Open Rails itself. It's frustrating when you cannot troubleshoot an issue.

It appears that somehow, somewhere, the XNA framework thinks your video card is not properly configured with HW acceleration. Can you double check to ensure that HW 3D acceleration is enabled? dxdiag.exe can confirm this.

[johnds]

Yes, both are enabled

John,


It appears that somehow, somewhere, the XNA framework thinks your video card is not properly configured with HW acceleration. Can you double check to ensure that HW 3D acceleration is enabled? dxdiag.exe can confirm this.

Yes dxdiag.exe confirms that both DirectDraw and Direct3d acceleration are on!

Latest info from DXDIAG is attached. (file reduced in size to make the limit)

[dedwa15237]

Onboard video card?

Do you happen to have an onboard video card placed on your motherboard? That can possibly cause an conflict. If you do, make sure you disable the onboard video settings and you should be set. (build-in video card onto a motherboard)

Just wondering..

Dave

Yes dxdiag.exe confirms that both DirectDraw and Direct3d acceleration are on!

Latest info from DXDIAG is attached. (file reduced in size to make the limit)

[johnds]

Do you happen to have an onboard video card placed on your motherboard? That can possibly cause an conflict. If you do, make sure you disable the onboard video settings and you should be set. (build-in video card onto a motherboard)

Just wondering..

Dave

Yes I ;have an onboard video card. The same thought occurred to me. There is not a setting in the bios to disable the card. It can only be set to "AUTO". I will have to look and see if there's a jumper on the board to disable it completely.

Thanks for the reply.

John

[cwhense]

Just looked at the manual for that motherboard in the option in bios before the one where you set the internal graphics to auto, there is a one that asks the the primary graphics is, options are onboard, pci or pci express, I would check to make sure it is set to the pci or pci express which ever type of slot your card is plugged into, and leave the other option at auto.

[johnds]

Just looked at the manual for that motherboard in the option in bios before the one where you set the internal graphics to auto, there is a one that asks the the primary graphics is, options are onboard, pci or pci express, I would check to make sure it is set to the pci or pci express which ever type of slot your card is plugged into, and leave the other option at auto.

Both of those options are set in the BIOS as suggested.

Could this be a sound card problem? Might a sound card in a slot as opposed to the on-board audio make a difference?

If I have to buy a sound card, what brands are best for the purpose?

Thanks

John
In DAR country where the trains don't run no more.