"Brian A." gonefish'n@afarawaylake wrote in message
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"Joe727" nospam.nospam@nospam wrote in message
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You're able to play Pacific Assault?

That I can not say, I'm not much on gaming. I was going to try downloading
the demo, but they want a registration which I opt not to do. I only
metioned that I use the same ATi card and have DX 9.0b installed without any
video issues. I do use an architectural app that applies some pretty intense
rendering, although more than likely not as much as a game.

It's odd that you say both cards support DX 7. The info I have for my ATi
card says it has support for DX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3. which fits the
requirement you stated. My guess is it supports DX 9 as well seeing that I
have no issues with it.
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Brian A.

Brian, I sure am glad you posted that info. I don't know why I thought my
ATi 9000 Pro was only DirectX 7 compliant. Right now I have it in the PC on
which I play games.

The nVidia based card's fan died and I ordered a new heatsink/fan combo for
it. I put the nVidia card in this PC because it has a software adjustment
called Digital Vibrance, which really makes the games look great.

The PC that had the 9000 Pro in it has an onboard 32 MB video chip which is
fine for its main purpose - watching TV and streaming video such as news
reports. (It's connected to a 31 inch Gateway monitor).

So, I am downloading the Pacific Assault demos which are huge. I'll post
back to let you know if the 9000 Pro card will play them.

Joe