Re: Problems With Halo

From: Steve (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:25:49 -0800

Well, my PC is an HP, and at the HP screen it gives me
the option to press F1 and enter some setup stuff. These
aren't the BIOS (I don't think so at least) but it had an
option there for either AGP/Onboard or PCI video, and I
chose PCI
I did disable the driver in the device manager, though.

>-----Original Message-----
>Did you disable the onboard graphics in your BIOS?
>--
>Chris H.
>Microsoft Windows MVP
>Associate Expert
>Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:15eed01c416b3$e1d95410$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>I tried running Halo on my computer, and it wouldn't
work
>> with my onboard video so I put in a 32mb PCI video card
>> (with all the acceleration stuff I need) I got the
video
>> card to work properly and override the old one, but
when
>> I start Halo, it tells me that it couldn't start the
>> hardware acceleration and to run DXDIAG. I ran it, and
my
>> hardware acceleration IS working. What's the problem
>> here? Can anyone help? (I just re-installed DX 9.0b
too)
>>
>> ---------
>> AMD Athalon XP 3000+
>> 32MB Video
>> 512MB DDRSDRAM
>
>
>.
>

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