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Sampson 
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Posted 06 January 2006 - 12:59 AM
As I recall the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX kind of emulates Transform and Lighting, but the chipset does not have it imbedded in it. If your motherboard doesn't either, you will need a new card that supports it. Further, while the game claims to be playable with only 64meg of memory this would be minimal at best. It probably needs 128. Finally, your card fails the directx 8 and 9. The short answer is to install a better card that supports T&L.
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suremanok
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Posted 06 January 2006 - 03:22 AM
what card do you prefer? also, since i installed the newest version of forceware, what if i downgrade to a earlier version that's better suited for my card. would that make a difference?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.html - maybe a version in the 40's cause i hear they work best with my card?
[Edited by suremanok on 2006-01-05 20:29:44]
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.html - maybe a version in the 40's cause i hear they work best with my card?
[Edited by suremanok on 2006-01-05 20:29:44]
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Posted 06 January 2006 - 05:33 AM
nVidia drivers are a complete mystery. For some cards the older drivers do seem to work better. But, in your case T&L seem to be the shortcoming. While you are using the most recent drivers the 81.98's, it looks like a PCI card or at least it is an onboard graphics set communicating through the PCI interface. Therefore, if you do have AGP, it is probably only AGP 2.0 or an emulation of it. If perchance you have AGP 4.0, you're in business and can select a number of cards. If you only have AGP 2.0, there are some PCI cards: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=319&
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