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| | The game is running in software rendering mode Is there a way to disable the software rendering mode message? Anyone playing Solitaire using the standard VGA driver in Windows Vista has seen this message. The game is running in software rendering mode. "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." Is there a way to disable this annoying message? Believe me, my grandparents do not care. All they use a computer for is playing Solitaire! One of the reasons I upgraded them to Windows Vista Home Basic is because of the new large-print deck in Solitaire. I have also enabled the large dpi font under display settings. It is an old computer and not supported, but it lets my grandparents play Solitaire. The motherboard is a Shuttle AE22 v11 with integrated Intel 815 graphics. Uh umm! Speaking of which, I have no nice things to say about Intel for not releasing Vista drivers for the Intel 810/815 chipsets. I ended up disabling the onboard Intel 815 graphics and installing an ATI Rage 128 card with 16MB of VRAM. And no, Windows Vista does not support this card. But the card worked beautifully after manually installing the Rage 128 Windows 2000 drivers in Windows Vista, hehe. Just make sure to disable the ATI startup tray application. Brandon Moses |
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| | RE: The game is running in software rendering mode What you need is a decent DX 9 compatible graphics card such as the ATI Radeon series or Nvideo Geforce series. The ATI 128 is ancient and the Intel 815 is way too slow. -- P Hutchison "Brandon Moses" wrote: > Is there a way to disable the software rendering mode message? Anyone > playing Solitaire using the standard VGA driver in Windows Vista has seen > this message. > > The game is running in software rendering mode. > "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." > > Is there a way to disable this annoying message? Believe me, my grandparents > do not care. All they use a computer for is playing Solitaire! > > One of the reasons I upgraded them to Windows Vista Home Basic is because of > the new large-print deck in Solitaire. I have also enabled the large dpi > font under display settings. It is an old computer and not supported, but it > lets my grandparents play Solitaire. The motherboard is a Shuttle AE22 v11 > with integrated Intel 815 graphics. Uh umm! Speaking of which, I have no > nice things to say about Intel for not releasing Vista drivers for the Intel > 810/815 chipsets. > > I ended up disabling the onboard Intel 815 graphics and installing an ATI > Rage 128 card with 16MB of VRAM. And no, Windows Vista does not support this > card. But the card worked beautifully after manually installing the Rage 128 > Windows 2000 drivers in Windows Vista, hehe. Just make sure to disable the > ATI startup tray application. > > Brandon Moses > > > |
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