Error opening open Rails

[nryans34express]

I have the Open Rails software installed on my computer. Went to the link on the webpage to download. I am running windows XP Home Edition Service pack 3. When i start to run a route to load the following error appears. No suitable graphics card found. Could not find a Direct 3D device that has a Direct 3D level driver and supports pixel shader 1.1 or greater. This program requires pixel shader 1.1 and vertex shader 1.1. I went into display properties and settings and tried to change the display settings. Every change I tried to make I got that same error. My display is either 16 or 32 bit on the display settings. So I assume there's nothing else I can do to play open rails on this xp computer.

thanks
David

[Navcom]

You not tell what graphic card you have in system. If you have onboard graphic card maybe is this problem or maybe your graphic card is not supported by OR.

[Snowman]

Do you have a graphics card installed on your computer, or are you using onboard graphics? If you have a card installed your motherboard could have onboard graphics enabled instead of your graphics card. You would check that in your BIOS when you start your computer. Your graphics could be disabled in device manager. Also, go to device manager and make sure you dont see and yellow exclamation points next to your graphics card, or onboard graphics. Without your full system specs I cant help you much further than speculation.

[nryans34express]

i went to device manager. The graphics card has a plus+ sign after it. Its Intel (R) 82865G Graphics Controller. What other info do you need to have.

[Snowman]

Thats onboard graphics. Just a wild guess, but Id say its incompatible with OpenRails. Maybe someone else can give you more exact information. I would also imagine its not shader 3.0 compatible.

[Navcom]

What i see in tech spec for: Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller (full described: Intel® 82865G Graphics and Memory Controller ) here
is link to description: http://ark.intel.com/products/27707/...ory-Controller this is not a real graphic card, just controller with integrated graphics. This is just basic graphic what most games is not recognize like graphic card and not support it. So maybe you need real graphic card in PCIe slot like: Nvidia or ATI.

[longiron]

This 'graphics' does not have the minimum requirements to run OpenRails as Intel 82865G Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) does not have any Pixel Shader support. http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-014257.htm

You will need to install a real graphic card as Navcom suggested.

Sorry for the bad news.
chris