DX9 and an old TNT2 card

[fuzzywuzzy]

I'm running Windows 2000, with an Asus TNT2 Ultra v3800 video card. Yeah it's crusty, but it serves my purpose since I don't play that many video games.....

I installed the latest DirectX 9.0b drivers, and also installed the latest Nvidia Detonator drivers (also tried specific ATI drivers, but they're pretty old, latest release Jan 2003).

I've tried to play The Hulk, and recently Midnight Club 2 (this one says it requires DX9).

I load up the game fine, get to the menu, etc. When I make a menu selection like 'play game' or 'select car', it boots me back out into Windows....

Question:
- Is this happening because my videocard (hardware-wise) is not DX9-compliant?
- Or, is it because of driver setup??
- How would you go about trying to determine the issue? I've already ran the DXDiag tools, and they run fine...

[PreservedSwine]

It;s not the card, "DX9" games simply mean you should have DX9 installed, regardless of what the card is capable of. DX9 is backwards comaptable...Games today usually have fallbacks to at least DX6 codepaths.

If your crashing back to desktop, probably a memory allocation thing. Make sure all background programs are not running...this is a failrly common problem for many rigs, some games, like BF1942, crash to desktop much easier than other games...

Anyway, It will play on on TNT-2, just on lowest settings and quite slow....good luck getting it straightened out:)

[Damian]

Some newer games require hardware T&L... that might very well be your problem. You probably might want to get a DX7 card at the least. Geforce 2 GTS cards are going for fairly cheap nowadays; you'll probably be able to pick one up for $35 or less.

[fuzzywuzzy]

Do you have any recommendations on test utilities or anything that I can run to test T&L?

I've run DXDiag and all it's tests, and it's fine. :(

Originally posted by Damian
Some newer games require hardware T&L... that might very well be your problem. You probably might want to get a DX7 card at the least. Geforce 2 GTS cards are going for fairly cheap nowadays; you'll probably be able to pick one up for $35 or less.