Vista - Direct X and Hardeware Acceleration???

I could not find this post elsewhere, but I can't get my directdraw to enable or mess with my hardware acceleration.

Please refer to my system spec in my profile for computer info, thanks.

Its just not active...any suggestions would be great.

Latest Drivers Wiped and reinstalled all around.

Regedit timeout is at 7

Nothing seems to change it, ANY suggestions would be great, thanks.

I downloaded and loaded the latest, and older, drivers from both Nvidia and EVGA, my card manufacturer. Non of which has fixed the issue. Everything reads fine, as to the correct versions, but it always remains with the same problems.

Are there some sort of special privileges that I am missing, or possibly an included program with my card that controls these functions instead of windows?

I have installed everything I can find from the Card Manufacturer and chip Manufacturer, I have updated my board bios to the latest and so on, but nothing seems to make ANY difference.

Any ideas???

Shot in the dark considering i'm still running 32bit pc with winxp pro!

But I fixed exactly this problem a couple of weeks ago after installing latest ATI catalyst 9.9 drivers which also messed up textures/hardware acceleration in directx.

All i did was reinstall the latest nforce board drivers again which includes the Gart driver which I presume got fekked over!

Fixed my problem

PS have you reset/fiddled with settings in your bios which might turn off acceleration?
I don't know how it affects pci-e cards.

Thanks for the reply.

When you say you reinstalled the latest nforce board drivers, do you mean the drivers that come with my MB or the flashing the bios?

As for fiddiling around in the bios, I have looked and I can't find anything that seems to make a difference, both my MB and Video Card are overclockable so I thought if I ramped it up or adjusted some settings, or even if one of these had some sort of independent setting that over ruled the DirectX settings, but I can't find anything yet.

Thanks.

RivaTuner

Yes your board drivers - not flash bios!
See if there are updated board drivers for your motherboard on mainboard website!

With AGP(as opposed to PCI-E) graphic cards hardware acceleration will disappear
1. if it is turned off in Bios(4x+8x) Also if Apperture is set less than 128/64mb etc
2. Turned off in ATI Catalyst Control Center(Nvidia=Rivatuner)
3. Driver screwed up on installation.
4. One of the Mainboard drivers eg Northbridge/Gart gets corrupted.
5. Directx has been overwritten and mixed with different date versions!

Have you checked that the Nvidia graphic card driver is installed OK in "Device Manager"(or whatever it's called in Vista) and there are no question marks?
You maybe running on the basic driver vista installs and not the proper Nvidia one.

Try reinstalling your drivers a different way around and make sure all firewall/antivirus progs are turned off(disable connection to internet first!)

Tried everything I think, Nothing in the bios that I can find, I have rivatuner but nothing about activating or enabling Directdraw, unless I am overlooking it. Tried a fresh install on everything and updates to all of it, still no good, thanks for any additional help.

Tried everything I think, Nothing in the bios that I can find, I have rivatuner but nothing about activating or enabling Directdraw, unless I am overlooking it. Tried a fresh install on everything and updates to all of it, still no good, thanks for any additional help.

Start right with the basics then!

Use another card to test your motherboard/bios settings are working correctly & Directx/ACCel reappears.

Try and test your card in another PC.

I do know there are different PCI-E sockets. Do you need a particular speed to make your card work correctly ie PCI-E 16x motherboard slot?
(I still use AGP lol but it runs Crysis, GTR Evolution - up to 2008 games etc fine!)

Try card in different slots to see if there is a clash with other items eg SATA chipset using same port share numbers/mem area.
I don't know how this is set up within Vista!

Speak to manufacturer to see if there are any known incompatibilities with the chipsets installed on your motherboard vs your brand graphic card.

Have you connected power wires correctly?
Is card getting enough juice or working in default/emergency/VGA mode?
Make sure all the little metal connectors inside the plastic power connector are pushed right in!

Speak to Nvidia - does it say your card is supported in the driver version you are using?
Poss your card is faulty!
Did it ever work correctly?

No more ideas after this!

Thanks for all the info, here is where I stand...

My card is PCI-E 16X
I only have the one slot on my MB so I can't switch it to another
I unfortunately don't have another box to try it in I have tried software diagnostics and everything comes back fine.
Both my chipset and Graphics card are completely compatible, everything is actually setup to support a DirectX system.
My power levels seem good
To be completely honest I built this box back in February and I have never checked to see if the Direct X was working correctly, never had a problem until now.

Thanks.