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Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

David Hunt — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:23:44 GMT

It also doesn't sound like you are a developer, so buying a new video card just so you can put games on your Zune would be a bit silly. You might be better off waiting until MS provides a way to deploy games to the Zune without the end-user having to compile them themselves...

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

leny12739 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:23:04 GMT

thanks.

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

The ZMan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:13:21 GMT

Here's a partial list of cards that will work http://www.xnawiki.com/index.php?title=Graphics_card_compatibility

Of course you need to determine which will fit your computer. It sounds like its pretty old so you need to find out what kind of graphics card connector you have.

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

Jim Perry — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:59:15 GMT

It's not what card we have, it's what card you have. You'll have to find out what cards are compatible with your system. There's no way we can tell you that.

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

leny12739 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:35:07 GMT

ok then which card do you have then?

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

The ZMan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:24:30 GMT

You probably dont have a graphics card. Intel chips like that come mounted on the motherboard. If you have a AGP or PCIe slot on your computer you can probbly guy a cheap card which will run XNA and in the BIOS disable the on board one.

The reason you need a DX9 card is becuase the content processors use DirectX 9 to do their graphics conversion even for the zune. Sure they could have coded out tht dependency but remember XNA is a developer tool and the number of developers with this old a graphics card are too small to worry about.

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

Jim Perry — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:24:10 GMT

The ZMan:

Its an "INTEL", generally means its not by Microsoft ;-)

You can find the latest drivers here http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-003951.htm and also it says that while its compatibile with DirectX not all features are availalbe. Bottom line you have a very old graphics card and need to upgrade.

Here's your answer!

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

leny12739 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:04:08 GMT

it not the driver i just updated it & i have no idea were my video card is...

sorry

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

David Berkompas — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:58:05 GMT

Here's some things to help you out...

Is the video card part of the motherboard (on-board video), or did you purchase a video card for the computer?

From what you've told us, the video card that you're using just isn't up to what is needed for what you want to do.

Now, you may be wondering, what on earth does that have to do with anything if I'm developing for the Zune.

That is a very good question, and I'm sure better answered by what I consider greatly more knowledgable people like Z-Man or Mykre.

So, let's recap. You need a better video card, or updated drivers or both?

BoomerET

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

leny12739 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:19:26 GMT

it says that it a older program(on the web site )

my computers is newer.

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

leny12739 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:05:33 GMT

ok wait...

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

The ZMan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:55:00 GMT

Its an "INTEL", generally means its not by Microsoft ;-)

You can find the latest drivers here http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-003951.htm and also it says that while its compatibile with DirectX not all features are availalbe. Bottom line you have a very old graphics card and need to upgrade.

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

leny12739 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:39:00 GMT

it says its a "intel 82810E graphics controller" & its by microsft.

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

The ZMan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:27:47 GMT

GO into Device Manager (Right click My Computer, choose Manage) and find your graphics card then come back and tell us what it is.

Whoever makes that graphics card then go to their website and find the latest drivers for your card.

XNA Game Studio will have already installed all the parts of DirectX that it needs. The likley problem is that your graphics card is not Direct( compatible. But if you really want to be up to date then run the web installer from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en

Re: help im new & every time i deploy....

leny12739 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:23:17 GMT

i dont know im new to all of this, let my try to update the directX program then.