25-JULY-08
3.50pm
Question: Hi LK...? Thanks alot for your Help on my Startup Error Problem on KAVE virus things....Owh,mani'm becoming your fan nowdays.....
Alright, i just wanna ask you how to check my graphic card...I mean i wanna test it, so that my graphic card is can support my 3D animations or games...?
By REBECCA from KUALA LUMPUR.
Alright, i just wanna ask you how to check my graphic card...I mean i wanna test it, so that my graphic card is can support my 3D animations or games...?
By REBECCA from KUALA LUMPUR.
Hi, Rebecca, i'm glad to hear that i have a fan.....
Alright about your question i think you can use DirectX Diagnostics.
Its a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.
More About DIRECT X
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth. DirectX, then, was the generic term for all of these APIs and became the name of the collection. After the introduction of the Xbox, Microsoft has also released multiplatform game development APIs such as XInput, which are designed to supplement or replace individual DirectX components.
Direct3D (the 3D graphics API within DirectX) is widely used in the development of computer games for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox, and Microsoft Xbox 360. Direct3D is also used by other software applications for visualization and graphics tasks, most notably among the engineering sector for CAD/CAM, because of its ability to quickly render high-quality 3D graphics using DirectX-compatible graphics hardware. As Direct3D is the most widely publicized component of DirectX, it is common to see the names "DirectX" and "Direct3D" used interchangeably.
The DirectX software development kit consists of runtime libraries in redistributable binary form, along with accompanying documentation and headers for use in coding. Originally, the runtimes were only installed by games or explicitly by the user. Windows 95 did not launch with DirectX, but DirectX was included with Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.[1] Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 both shipped with DirectX, as has every version of Windows released since. The SDK is available as a free download. While the runtimes are proprietary, closed-source software, source code is provided for most of the SDK samples.
The latest versions of Direct3D, namely, Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 9Ex, are exclusive to Windows Vista. The reasons, as Microsoft claims, is that there were extensive changes in the Windows graphics architecture, and in particular the introduction of the Windows Display Driver Model. Critics argue that there may be possible commercial motives as well. This redesign of the graphics infrastructure for Windows Vista supports virtualizing graphics hardware to multiple applications and services such as the Desktop Window Manager, in contrast to the exclusive access afforded to DirectX applications on Windows XP. Both Direct3D 9Ex and Direct3D 10 rely on the WDDM infrastructure and WDDM drivers.
More About DIRECT X In Wikipedia CLICK HERE
WHERE TO GET THE SOFTWARE
Its a Free Software That is included in your Windows What you have to do is just keep updating it.....CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE DIRECT X Version 9.0 c
HOW TO USE IT
START > RUN type dxdiag And OK
it will ask an question "do you want to allow DxDiag to check......" Just Click YES
at the bottom let the ProgressBar to full.
Then go on you can testyou 3D hardwares at the DISPLAY TAB.
By there you can get more information about your computer, your sound hardware and your Graphic card too...
Thanks for your mail Rebecca Keep in touch,
Good Luck.
