3d acceleration unable to start

you are da man,guess i posted my problem in the wrong section but all is well now.http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic93405.html

Glad that worked for you. You would think ATI would put that on their support site by now

Hi,

I tried to follow the instructions here, but I am still getting the "setup did not find a driver compatible with your current hardware or operating system. Setup will now exit" message.

I have also Sapphire HD2600 PRO 512MB
Win XP Prof SP2 HU
.Net 1.1, 2.0, 3.0

I did not have DAO, but I deleted even my sound and network card nVidia drivers so at the moment I am connected to Internet from another PC. So every related drivers are deleted. But still the same mesage.

I only installed the drivers, not Catalyst.

Gabor

which version of windows do you have

Windows XP Professional (Hungarian) SP2

CPU is AMD XP Athlon 2600/2 if it matters...

Windows XP pro - 32 or 64 bit?

Bios:
AGP Spread spektrum: Disabled
AGP 8x support: Enabled
AGP Fast write support: Enabled
Video RAm cacheable: Disabled
AGP Apperture size: 512 MB

These were set up now in the shop where I bought the card. Card video RAm is 512MB

Win XP Pro 32 bit

Make sure the previous drivers you tried are uninstalled -> http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/9395/

click download now on the right hand side

OK, I try...

If it doesn't work this time -> I am almost positive you need to update your chipset drivers for your motherboard before installing the drivers for your video card

I removed all previous ATI drivers and even the Catalyst. I can not see any other video drivers.

On my MSI motherboard I updated the Award BIOS and also the NVIDIA nForce System Drivers. There is a so called "Live VGA driver" on the live update application with a numerous updates "for all MSI VGA cards". I did not installed them - however their link is broken and most probably can not be reached.

I set up the drivers from http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/radeonx-xp.html and it still can not install the drivers.

Go to start -> run ->type dxdiag

What version of directX do you have?

and the link you posted is the wrong version drivers and will not work with your card -> even if they passed the install you still wouldn't be able to render 3d

It works for me now...

I reinstalled the Catalyst 7.10 that I received in the CD with the card. It at least could installed the drivers without error. It was the same with the newest Catalyst as well. The problem with these was that Direct3D did not work (error in step 8... in the dxdiag test, see above). It seems it was a wrong BIOS setting for me. AGP Apperture size was wrong. Now I set it to 256MB and it works. Tomorrow I will make some cross checks, as I made too many changes with drivers and parameters at the same time.

Earlier I tried all drivers, also the one you recommended. That could not installed either. I might try the newest driver tomorrow for test, but now I am rather tired already.

Thanks for the help

and you passed the direct3d test now?

yes, and also FS9 and FSX starts normally. TOmorrow I have to play with it again to be sure what was the problem. I do not want to destroy the install now, but I have to know the real cause.

When you figure it out can you please post it here for when people find this page on google.

This is the 3rd time I have seen exact problem in 3 days-> HD2600 won't accept the old drivers but direct 3d doesn't work on the newer drivers

Sure, I will. And thanks for the support!