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TSE MS4 demo and the Intel GMA 900/950

by Albert Hammel · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 12/18/2006 (12:32 pm) · 2 replies

I have tried to get the milestone 4 demo to work on multiple machines with the intel gma 900 and 950 video chips installed, but it always give me an error saying that DX could not be started or something like that. has anyone else had this experience? if so is it just an issue with the demo or will it just not work on these video chips?
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Torque Owner Brian Mayberry
Dead on Que Productions
#1
12/18/2006 (12:47 pm)
I did a bit of looking up for you, and it seems that while these cards should do fine with TGA, they might not be able to handle TGEA.

However, reading the official Intel site, it seems to me that these cards should at least be technically capable of running TGEA (although not very well).

Things to try:

Install latest Intel GMA Display Drivers

Install Direct X 9.0c

Torque Owner Alex Huck
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#2
12/18/2006 (1:08 pm)
I believe the support of DirectX 9 for those integrated chips was designed specifically for Windows Vistas Aeroglass, not for gaming. Integrated graphics can't hold a photon of light to a video card, much less a candle, though 'technically' capable with DirectX 9. The performance it would give would make it barely worth it. I would recommend investing in an add on card, which can be had quite cheap (Prices on DirectX 9 cards I expect will go down a bit now that DirectX 10 has come along). However, this might not be an option if you do not already have a PCI-x16, or 8xAGP. I have a 4xAGP slot and a Geforce 6200, and I can run TSE ok-ish
The reason it says you do not have DX9 is perhaps, though I'm not sure, that your chipset has a kind of watered-down non-gaming oriented DirectX9 processor, when the engine looks for what Hardware DirecX you have it might get a 'DX9-'IntelEdition'', which does not match up to any supported DirectX, again, only a rough guess.