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| | Freecell When I first got my computer ( a month ago) I could play the game Freecell and it worked well. Now when I start to play I get the message , "Hardware acceleration is either disabled or not supported by your video card driver, which could slow game performance. Make sure you have the latest video card driver installed and that hardware acceleration is turned on." It is true that the game has slowed down and the clarity of the picture is not as good. What can I do the get the game like it was and to enable the hardware acceleration? I must have erased some files. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks. -- RJT |
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| | Re: Freecell Do this... "Make sure you have the latest video card driver installed..." More than likely you tried to update your video card via Windows Update and it borked something. Find out which video card you have, go to nvidia.com or ati.com and download/install the latest driver for your card. Good luck, A. "rjt" <rjt@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:8AB6200A-D0F0-443D-832A-1C0CCAC66C5D@xxxxxx Quote: > When I first got my computer ( a month ago) I could play the game Freecell > and it worked well. Now when I start to play I get the message , > > "Hardware acceleration is either disabled or not supported by your video > card driver, which could slow game performance. Make sure you have the > latest video card driver installed and that hardware acceleration is > turned > on." > > It is true that the game has slowed down and the clarity of the picture is > not as good. What can I do the get the game like it was and to enable the > hardware acceleration? I must have erased some files. > > Any information would be appreciated. Thanks. > > -- > RJT |
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| | Re: Freecell Thanks Andy. I took my computer back to the dealer and they installed a Video Card from Toshiba and now my computer is back to normal. I get the same quality of picture I used to get and the hardware accelerator message does not show up any more. I play all the games of solitaire I used to and the speed is just as it was when I first bought my computer. Thanks Andy for the information. -- RJT "Andy [YaYa]" wrote: Quote: > Do this... "Make sure you have the latest video card driver installed..." > > More than likely you tried to update your video card via Windows Update and > it borked something. Find out which video card you have, go to nvidia.com or > ati.com and download/install the latest driver for your card. > > Good luck, > A. > > "rjt" <rjt@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:8AB6200A-D0F0-443D-832A-1C0CCAC66C5D@xxxxxx Quote: > > When I first got my computer ( a month ago) I could play the game Freecell > > and it worked well. Now when I start to play I get the message , > > > > "Hardware acceleration is either disabled or not supported by your video > > card driver, which could slow game performance. Make sure you have the > > latest video card driver installed and that hardware acceleration is > > turned > > on." > > > > It is true that the game has slowed down and the clarity of the picture is > > not as good. What can I do the get the game like it was and to enable the > > hardware acceleration? I must have erased some files. > > > > Any information would be appreciated. Thanks. > > > > -- > > RJT |
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| | Re: Freecell "rjt" <rjt@xxxxxx> wrote in message news 1585C86-91B7-4327-9204-672C63A14707@xxxxxxQuote: > Thanks Andy. I took my computer back to the dealer and they installed a > Video Card from Toshiba and now my computer is back to normal. I get the > same quality of picture I used to get and the hardware accelerator message > does not show up any more. I play all the games of solitaire I used to > and > the speed is just as it was when I first bought my computer. > > Thanks Andy for the information. > -- > RJT insight to take it back and have someone look at it. Good use of a warranty which only covers hardware so yeah... -A. |
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