Where can I find what kind of video card I have?

Nanobyte · 11-03-2002, 01:12 AM

I downloaded the Arx Fatalis demo (

), and I have no idea which video card I have. The one I tried left me with a background and no characters, except their shadows..

True_Moose · 11-03-2002, 01:19 AM

http://download.com.com/3000-2166-10...age&tag=search

Dr Hardware

Nanobyte · 11-03-2002, 01:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by True_Moose:
http://download.com.com/3000-2166-10019884.html?part=altavista&subj=dlpage&tag=search

Dr Hardware

And which one is my video? It says under video adapter as SR9- 8mb SDRAM. Is this it?

andrewas · 11-03-2002, 07:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nanobyte:

quote:
Originally posted by True_Moose:
http://download.com.com/3000-2166-10...age&tag=search

Dr Hardware

And which one is my video? It says under video adapter as SR9- 8mb SDRAM. Is this it?[/QUOTE]Looks like. Ive never headr of the SR9 - probably some crappy integrated video chip. 8Mb of video RAM is painfuly out of date - its even worse than what I have. And thats bad. I doubt Arx Fatalis will run with it. I have seen video cards with insufficient memory behave like this before.

If it *is* an integrated chipset, you can probably allocate it more memory in BIOS, but youll either need to experiment or read your system board manual to find out how to do that.

Ronn_Bman · 11-03-2002, 07:18 AM

Belarc is another good system information tool.

WillowIX · 11-03-2002, 09:17 AM

Or you can simply run dxdiag [img]smile.gif[/img] You get the card name and the driver version. And the company who supplys the driver.

Ronn_Bman · 11-03-2002, 09:22 AM

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Originally posted by WillowIX:
Or you can simply run dxdiag [img]smile.gif[/img] You get the card name and the driver version. And the company who supplys the driver.

Registry using show-off [img]tongue.gif[/img]

WillowIX · 11-03-2002, 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:

quote:
Originally posted by WillowIX:
Or you can simply run dxdiag [img]smile.gif[/img] You get the card name and the driver version. And the company who supplys the driver.

Registry using show-off [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[/QUOTE]LOL Ronn. If you´d like I can post the registry keys that dxdiag reads [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Ronn_Bman · 11-03-2002, 09:56 AM

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Originally posted by WillowIX:
LOL Ronn. If you´d like I can post the registry keys that dxdiag reads [img]tongue.gif[/img]

STOP! You're scaring the kids.

Nanobyte · 11-03-2002, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by andrewas:

quote:
Originally posted by Nanobyte:

quote:
Originally posted by True_Moose:
http://download.com.com/3000-2166-10019884.html?part=altavista&subj=dlpage&tag=search

Dr Hardware

And which one is my video? It says under video adapter as SR9- 8mb SDRAM. Is this it?[/QUOTE]Looks like. Ive never headr of the SR9 - probably some crappy integrated video chip. 8Mb of video RAM is painfuly out of date - its even worse than what I have. And thats bad. I doubt Arx Fatalis will run with it. I have seen video cards with insufficient memory behave like this before.

If it *is* an integrated chipset, you can probably allocate it more memory in BIOS, but youll either need to experiment or read your system board manual to find out how to do that.[/QUOTE]Shows what two years can get ya. I've been asking my dad for a new video card, he didn't believe me even after I told him Black&White was acting up. So this means, I don't even really have one?

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Nanobyte Thoth - Egyptian God of Wisdom Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: NC Posts: 2,890	I downloaded the Arx Fatalis demo ( ), and I have no idea which video card I have. The one I tried left me with a background and no characters, except their shadows..

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