My DX10 doesn't run in any game!? (coh, crysis etc) [Archive]

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SoCaL

11-07-2007, 09:34 PM

well at first I thought this was just a crysis issue, but now apparently I figured out that the same thing is happening with my company of heroes...... DX10 simply is not turned on for any of my games despite the fact that I have a dx10 system and dx10 is installed and it says so in DXDiag(start>run>dxdiag)

I installed using the EA download manager(crysis demo), and I did not recieve any shortcuts in the start menu, so I cannot right click the crysis shortcut to choose between dx9 and dx10...
In the game "ultra high" is totally disabled so obviously I am not able to run dx10, and adding "-dx10" to the end of my shortcut doesn't work, the game only goes to a black screen for a second then comes back to the desktop

Same thing goes for company of heroes! All the DX10 options are disabled(greyed out, I can't select them). I can't find anywhere that tells me how to turn on DX10 in general, because it seems that the games are not detecting that I have DX10 and are therefore disabling it...

So does anyone know what my problem could possibly be??

My guess is that its not the games but something to do with my system, because it appears that no games want to run in dx10

But DXDIAG tells me that I am running DirectX 10!!! I have a full dx10/vista machine....

Specs:
Intel core 2 duo 6600
Nvidia 7950 GX2 1gb video card
2gb corsair ram
asus mobo

Help!!! I'm so lost as to why dx10 is not working for anything at all for me............. :(

Namakan

11-07-2007, 09:55 PM

You need an 8 series card for DX10

a 7950 is a DX9 card

SoCaL

11-07-2007, 10:05 PM

um...... when I bought the card it said DX10!!!!!

Wtf?

And I have dx10 installed! Wouldn't it not install dx10 if my video card wasn't compatible?

Tomeis

11-07-2007, 10:11 PM

You spent like $300+ on a video card and you don't even know if it's DX10 or not? Lol...

"And I have dx10 installed! Wouldn't it not install dx10 if my video card wasn't compatible?"

Well... I'm pretty sure you can install ATI drivers onto your computer even though you've got an nvidia card in. It won't work, but it will still be there. Understand...?

SoCaL

11-07-2007, 10:17 PM

Corkum

11-07-2007, 10:29 PM

Yeah sorry buddy, but any 7 series card is dx9, its the 8 series that are dx10.

Namakan

11-08-2007, 03:20 AM

I made sure it said "DX10" on the card, I had spent 2 months looking at video cards and NEWEGG.com Had this card labeled as DX10!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not an idiot..... that was the only thing I was concerned about when I had bought the card originaly...

obviously read wrong all 7 series cards are labeled DX9 :hmm:

you are hella confused

7950s labeled DX9....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127212R&Tpk=7950GX2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150197

Vash2051

11-08-2007, 11:36 AM

Yea 7 series were never dx10 only 8 series and 2k series. sorrry dude you got jipped. My entire system is from newegg VVVVVV

Stemnin

11-08-2007, 11:55 AM

When you do get a dx10 card, the Crysis shortcut is in the Games folder (start menu > games), there you can right click and play dx9 or 10 (dx10 is default.)

Also r_displayinfo = 1 (I think that's the command) will show which one you're running as well as show FPS etc.

Alex98uk

11-08-2007, 11:58 AM

What you have fallen for is classic marketing spin. It states the card will work in a DX10 OS (IE. Vista!!!) but.... and this is a big but.... it won't actually run DX10 as it doesn't have the correct hardware. The only DX10 cards are Nvidia 8 series and ATI 2xxx series.

Still, the 7950gx2 is still an awesome card, but read some online reviews before buying first

Oh, and btw, it's not the Egg's fault, they just post the info given to them by the manufacturer

This is a duplicate post, so i will lock this one. If you want to reply, use the thread in the "Total CoH" forum.