Open Rails STILL does not run!

[johnds]

In a previous thread, I said that OR does not run with my Nividia 9500 GT video card.
"Nvidia 9500 GT not suitable?"

I waited for another version hoping that the problem might go away; it didn't.

Here is what I have and what I get:

Intel Dual core 2.5 GHz
2 GB RAM
160 GB HDD
EVGA Nvidia 9500 GT with the latest drivers (last week!)
Sound Blaster Audigy SE

dxdiag shows that there are no problems with Direct X and all tests contained in it work perfectly.
XNA 3.1 and .netframework have been installed ( and uninstalled and reinstalled many times)

The on-board video card and on-board sound card are disabled.

When I try to run it, Open Rails always goes through its opening routine (looking very much like a DOS program with white letters on a black background). When it looks like it's going start, up comes a dialog box which says (more or less):

"No suitable graphics card found"
"Direct 3D hardware acceleration is not available. Make sure a suitable card is installed and that 3D acceleration is enabled"
"This program requires Pixel shader 1.1 and vertex shader 11

Open Rails does produce its log file every time it crashes, but I don't know how to interpret it! If some one would like to try, I would be pleased to email it off list.

Recently someone pointed me in the direction of a program called GPU-Z. It is available for free download from:

techpowerup.com

Among its voluminous information about my graphics card it says that "Direct X Compute" is not available on this adapter!

Here is the question for the experts out there: Is this the root of my problem? If so, how do I fix it?

Any new suggestions would be most welcome!

johnds
in DAR country where the stupid politicians caused the tracks to be pulled up.

[twpol]

A picture of all the data in GPU-Z could be very helpful.

[johnds]

GPU-Z Output

Here is a screen copy of what GPU-Z gives me.

Thanks.

johnds

[johnds]

Here is a better copy of the GPU-Z output.

Sorry for the small version.

On further investigation: IrfanView gives a good rendition of the original post!

johnds

[johnds]

Just for my curiousity and perhaps to keep me from buying another video card:

Is there anyone out there successfully running Open Rails using anEVGA NVIDIA 9500 GT video card? With 512k or 1MB?

If not, what are people using for video cards to run Open Rails?

TIA

johnds

[sniper297]

I think you mean 512mb or 1gb, last time VRAM was measured in kilobytes was with 80286 systems. Anyway, I got an 8500GT with 512mb, Windows XP media edition SP3, NVIDIA Driver Version: 6.14.0012.5721.

It sounds to me more like a hardware configuration problem, Start, Control Panel, System, click the Hardware tab then Device Manager;

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See what you have listed under Display adapters.

[lindsayts]

Just for my curiousity and perhaps to keep me from buying another video card:

Is there anyone out there successfully running Open Rails using anEVGA NVIDIA 9500 GT video card? With 512k or 1MB?

If not, what are people using for video cards to run Open Rails?

TIA

johnds

I have used OR on 3 systems,

1: MB Intel D975XBX2, Proc Quad core Q6600, graphics Gigabtye Radeon 3870
2: MB Gigabyte GA P35 DSO4P, Proc Quad core Q8400, graphics Gigabyte Radeon 4870
3: MB ASUS P7P55D-E Deluxe. Proc Quad core I5 750, graphics Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 260 superoverclocked

Or performs well on all three systems, the first does suffer from a bit of hesitation on routes with a high object count when using high polycount locos.
I have tried an NVidia GTX 460 on system 2, performance appeared to be identical with the 4870. Highest frame rates are of course with system 3 but all are usable.

I recently upgraded the processor on system 2 from an Duo core E6850 this resulted in an improvment of around 20 to 25 percent in the frame rate and it completely got rid of any hesitations in high poly count areas using high poly count rolling stock.

Have you tried any other 3d games on the system to see what they say. It looks like some kind of driver problem.