Problem with Radeon Mobility 9200

[lecvh]

Hello there,

I've got another question to the Radeon Mobility 9200 card (sorry). I bought a Vaio PCG k215z last week and had a look at sony's update page. There I found new driver for the graphics card which fixes suppositly a problem with direcDraw . I installed it and try to run dxdiag. Unfortunately the 3d acceleration seems to be not supported now. Wether this has to do with new dirver or not I can't see but it says in the Note section that direct3d 9+ is not available because the display driver does not support it. Does anybody have any idea how to fix this problem? I can't find any additional drivers on the sony webpage. My sceen resolution is 1280 X 800.

Thanks a lot

[kee-lo_]

DirectX 9 is usually supported by the hardware rather than the software.

[TygerTyger]

It should work with directx 9, go to microsofts website and download the latest directx version. Then try again. I'm not 100% on this but isn't your maximum screen resolution supposed to be 1024x768?

[lecvh]

The maximum resolution is 1280x 800. Actually I found a way to the test direct X. Apparently it has to do with the screen resolution. I borrowed a monitor from someone which recuded the resolution automatically to 1024x768 and then I was able to test the 3d acceleration. However when I reduce the resolution on my notebook to 1024x786 it still comes up the message directx3 is not supported by display driver. I just wonder whether this is only a problem with the testing tool in directx which can't cope with the unsual resolution or whether I am not able to play 3d games on the LCD screen now?

[kee-lo_]

You should be able to play 3D games with the LCD.
I would just try and see what happens.

[lecvh]

Well I'll better get a 3d game and check it out that way rather than worrying about the directx.

Cheers.

[kee-lo_]

Try downloading a demo rather than pay for something.