looking for help in identifying compatible video card

Looking for help in identifying compatible video card
location: 7forums.com - date: December 1, 2013
I am looking to upgrade my graphics card. But I'm not sure by reading the descriptions what would be the best fit for my existing system. Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz Motherboard - ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5E 4.00 GB with 3.25 GB available Graphics Card - Radeon X1950 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) High Definition Audio Device Hard drive WDC WD7501AALS-00J7B0 ATA Device Should I go Radeon like what I have? Can I go GeForce? I need to ensure that it can connect to my monitor as well as my large flatscreen. And play dvd's/blu rays on it as well. (I have a blu ray drive ready to go) Opinions? If anyone wants to point to a specific one, I'm buying from HERE, unle
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Looking for a WDDM video card driver
location: 7forums.com - date: July 9, 2010
I installed a Sapphire Radeon X1300 PCI-e card in a system running Windows 7 Home Premium. The system runs a lot better with the card but I get the following error when I try using the Aero glass effect: "The current video card may support Aero with a driver that is compliant with the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM)." Haven't had much luck trying to find this one on my own. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
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Need help with PCI video card upgrade on and old Dell 4500S
location: 7forums.com - date: November 15, 2012
I've got a problem, and I'd like to get some help suggestions. In the upgrade of an old Dell 4500S for a friend (whose monitor died, so we started from there) I upgraded the 256MB of memory with 2GB, and upgraded the 20GB hard drive with a 60GB version. The old dead monitor was replaced by a Samsung S20B300B 20" 16x9 LCD whose native resolution is 1600x900. However the old onboard Intel i845g GPU graphics chip in the 4500S (82845G) is supported by old drivers that do not have a 1600x900 resolution option. There is one pretty close rectangular resolution available, 1280x768 but it's a bit cartoonish. Anyway, I decided to install an external discrete PCI graphics card (replacing the PCI FAX-modem card which is in the "spare&quo
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The screen saver can't run because it requires a newer video card or one that's compataible with Direct3D. (Desktop-Dell 560ST). Unable to install Video Card 512 MB. Please help... :(
location: microsoft.com - date: July 8, 2010
I FIXED ( THE SCREEN SAVER CANNOT RUN BECAUSE IT REQUIRES A NEWER VIDEO CARD COMPATIBLE WITH DIRECT 3D,  ISUE . THIS IS HOW . ------  RIGHT CLICK ON DESKTOP--------CLICK SCREEN RESOLUTION------ CLICK ADVANCED SETTINGS ------CLICK TROUBLESHOOT --------CLICK CHANGE SETTINGS -------DO YOU WANT TO ALLOW THE FOLLOWING TO ACCESS YOUR COMPUTER ----CLICK YES -----THEN FINALLY , SLIDE HARDWARE ACCELERATION TO FULL , CLICK OK  , AND YOU WILL SEE THAT MESSAGE NO MORE.  THAT MESSAGE COME UP BECAUSE SCREENSAVERS WOULD NOT RUN ON MY DESKTOP AFTER MY COMPUTER TIMED OUT . I HAVE WINDOWS 7 SYSTEM 32 AND A DELL E773C MONITER .  NOW MY SCREEN SAVER WORKS AND I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THE GOOD NEWS WITH YOU ALL . I HAVE SEARCHED
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I need help with video card.
location: winsecrets.com - date: December 1, 2012
HI. when i bought my laptop. my video card model was an ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 4250. i brought my acer laptop 5552 to a shop to reinstal windows 7 and when i got it back, the version of my video card was ati mobility radeon HD 4200. i tried updating thinking that would put it back to 4250. no luck. i didnt change the video card. i would really love to get it back how it was. any hep would be really nice. i dont dontknow anything about video cards, but im sure i wouldhave to reovethe current video card to ot be 4250. right? it has been changed. i am lost. PLEASE HELP.
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New Video Card Help!
location: 7forums.com - date: October 12, 2009
First of all, I would like to know how much of a difference Going from 3GB to 8GB of RAM Will Make. Right now I have 2 1GB sticks and 2 512MB sticks, and im thinking of going to 4 2GB sticks. I would also like details on converting from a 32-bit windows to a 64-bit windows for free so i can fully use all 8GB of RAM. I have already looked over 64-bit compatibility and everything I have will convert except 1 game I just bought. Also I should put this in a different thread but I would like to upgrade my 128MB Video Card to a 512MB Video card and would like to know what would be the cheapest and best choice as far as video cards go. Also keep in mind the video card will have to be compatible with a 64-bit operating system. I already looked ove
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What video card is compatible with Age of Mythology on Windows XP?
location: microsoft.com - date: May 18, 2011
I have bought AOM as a gift and on checking it is working ok it said that the video card is not compatible,  I am not at all computer literate so cannot seem to find out the exact video card  needed to play this on XP, can anyone help?    Many Thanks
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Age of Empires II - "could not initialize graphics system. make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"
location: microsoft.com - date: October 2, 2010
Hi, I am having trouble running Age of Empires 2 on my new computer. The following error message keeps displaying: "could not initialize graphics system. make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw." Does anyone have any solutions to this? I have already visited many forums and tried various solutions; none of them has helped! Solutions tried: Changing compatibility settings and running as administrator, switching to 16-bit color, disabling my graphics card, running the "nostartup" extension of the game, looking for old Microsoft patches (which are mostly unavailable now due to the game being so old). I KNOW others have been able to get this game to work on the Windows 7 OS, albeit with some
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Video Card issues “Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupt, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows”
location: microsoft.com - date: September 21, 2012
Original Title: Video Card issues My company is adding dual monitors to existing systems running both XP and windows 7. All is going smoothly with the exception of one system using windows XP. I have replaced the original video card(DELL ATI X1300 128MB DVI TV-OUT PCI-E VIDEO CARD) with nvidia GeForce 8400 GS and when I try to install the drivers through the provided disc i recieve the following message: "Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupt, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows. I have flashed the BIOS but still nothing. Do I need a different video card?
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Error "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw" when trying to open Age of Empire II
location: microsoft.com - date: July 1, 2010
Hi, um I was hoping some smart guy here could help another friend in need? My problem is that aoe 2 wont work. I bought the collectors edition from eb for $10, installed all the ones on the disc (aoe (1), aoe (1) expansion and aoe 2 aok and aoe 2 aoc expansion) and the install worked everything was good until I tried playing the game it said exactly this: Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw. Now Im pretty sure they are compatible, as I am running vista (so it should be compatible? right?). Could someone plz help?? Thnx :)
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