Sounds like you need a real video card. Matrox's are good for 2D, but their DirectX support sucks, as does their 3D performance. Even a low-buck ATI or NVidia card will likely have less issues.
I'm a big fan of the ATI Radeon HD 3850. Cheapish for it's superb performance, should run about $220CDN. 256MB card which oupterforms anything other than it's big brother the 3870 or a NVidia 8800GT/GTS. -Adam On 1/24/08, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am on my seventh PC now, never had a single problem with Windows or > hardware before. > This new machine is making me mental. > > The hardware is as follows: > Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe > AMD Athlon 6000+ Dual Core > 4 GB Ram > Matrox Parhelia aPVe video Card. > Gigabyte I-Ram 4GB Ram installed (it's actually quite useless and I expect > I'll remove it for a real hard drive). > I have 5 physical drives installed, 2 as a striped RAID, 2 as a mirrored > RAID, and a single SATA drive, plus four external hard drives, one eSata and > three USB. > > Nice rig. > I am running WinXP Pro, and have updated all drivers as well as the video > card BIOS. > > The damned thing won't run Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator in 32 bit > mode most of the time. > Sometimes it will, sometimes (mostly) it won't. > I tried running a different game called Red Ace Squadron, and get an alarm > message: > "could not open video more. Ensure that DirectX is installed and working" > DirectX is up to date, and apparently working properly according to the > DirectX control panel. > > I've also had problems where it loses the onboard audio, and gives an alarm > "hardware configuration has changed, You need to reinstall SoundMax". > A simple reboot generally makes this better. > > Sometimes it can't find it's way to the router, the connection just sits > there trying to aquire an IP address. When this happens, I have to uninstall > the ethernet connection, and reboot the computer. > > I'm thinking it is a fairly simple thing, such as a driver conflict, but it > has me quite puzzled. I am almost prepared to dump the Matrox card and try > something else, but I hate to flush that much money down the drain on > hardware. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. I have a service call in to Matrox, but so > far all they have suggested is to update the card bios and driver, which I > have done, to no good effect. In fact, the damned thing is worse with the > new drivers and firmware than the old. > > Thanks > > William Robb > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
