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    How to turn off 3D acceleration for 5920g?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Magic Night, Jul 30, 2008.

  1. Magic Night

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    Can anyone here teach me how to turn off the 3D hardware accelerator for our Acer 5920g? I've checked out the FAQs in my Nvidia program inside my control panel but failed to get it to work. : / Many thanks in advance.
     
    Magic Night, Jul 30, 2008
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    How about this: Start - Run - dxdiag - click on display tab and disable direct 3d acceleration.

    Cheers,
    Theo
     
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  3. Magic Night

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    I was able to open the dxdiag and select the display tab but strange there wasn't an option to select enabled or disabled(it say's it's enabled), in the display tab page all the stuff there was like static non interactive infomation. Unless there's something I did wrong, but thank you anyways.
     
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    Why do you want to turn it off..??
     
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    Afraid of the overburning problem, maybe.
     
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  7. Magic Night

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    Everytime I play Baldur's Gate 2(2D game) graphics gliches appear when ever the 3D accelerator's turn on. Those graphics problems constantly flash at a high fps always making me dizzy. :p
     
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    You can try reducing the hardware acceleration a bit....or you can run it in compatibility mode....!!
     
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    Does compaatibility mode means it's turned off?
     
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    NO, windows vista tries to run that program with some sort of scripts which are compatible with OLD OSs....You can disable visual themes and some more features and select whichever OS you want from the drop-down box....
     
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    I never knew they had these features in Vista, thanks for the tip. :)
     
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    With x3100 IGP it is possible to run applications in software mode, which means the application use the processor not the graphic chip. If this is possible with nVidia GPUs maybe it will solve your problem.
     
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    His notebook has an 8800M GTX.. :eek:
     
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    I know that. What I meant is that in software mode the game will probably run "slower" and hopefully without glitches (caused by extremely high framerate right?) . But I don't know if this can be done with nVidia GPUs, although I don't see why not because, at least with x3100, software/hardware mode can be selected by registry changes.
    If I had such problem I'd give it a shot...

    Edit: By the way the game doesn't have Vertycal Sinc ON/OFF(or something like that) option does it? This limits the framere too as far as I know.
     
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  15. Magic Night

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    hehe I wish, mine's only a 8600M GT

    Ack, I meant to say the graphics glitch flashes at a high frame rate. http://users.auth.gr/~atzimoul/temp/bg1problem2.JPG
    The link above shows the graphics glitch that flashes every faction of a second, I feel like getting a siezure soon if I play any more of that Baldur's Gate, lol. :D

    I pretty much clicked and unclicked on all the buttons on hte options menu in my game, enough though I duno what do most of them does, heh. Those gamers told me turning off the 3D accelerator should fix the bug. But then my darn dxdiag window under the display tab prevents me from disabling it. :(
     
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    Try this

    1. Click Start, type msconfig, and then click OK.
    2. On the General tab, click Selective Startup.
    3. Under Selective Startup, click to clear the following check boxes:
    • Process SYSTEM.INI File
    • Process WIN.INI File
    • Load Startup Items
    4. On the Services tab, click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box, and then click Disable All.
    5. Click OK, and then click Restart.

    Now check DxDiag....
     
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  17. Magic Night

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    In step #3 Process SYSTEM.INI File & Process WIN.INI File are missing cept for Load Startup Items. :(
     
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    ok, leave out system.ini and win.ini....
     
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    It still won't let me disable 3D acceleration. :( This'z kinda dumb question but to convert back to the exact same previous settings for my system configuration do I

    click on the Enable all button and uncheck hide all microsoft service under the service tab

    then check Load startup items and select normal startup under the general tab?
     
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    In the startup selection - select Normal Startup (it will load all device and drivers)

    Try reducing the hardware acceleration for the adapter....!!
     
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  21. Magic Night

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    I'm lost again, heh. I guess I should just let it go and install baldur's gate on my old notebook instead. Thanks for helping me all this time, gotta call it a night. Take care friend.
     
    Magic Night, Jul 31, 2008
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    Ok, I know it is quite a pain to play around in windows :D
     
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