Hearts game not running right, need help

My husband plays Hearts all the time...now all of a sudden we are getting a
window popping up with the following message: The game is running in software
rendering mode. Hardare acceleration is either disabled or not supported by
your video card driver, which could slow game performance. Make sure you have
the latest video card driver installed and that hardware acceleration is
turned on.

We have no idea what this means....it worked fine until just yesterday and
this started. Could anyone help us????

"cmonroe" <> wrote in message
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> My husband plays Hearts all the time...now all of a sudden we are getting
> a
> window popping up with the following message: The game is running in
> software
> rendering mode. Hardare acceleration is either disabled or not supported
> by
> your video card driver, which could slow game performance. Make sure you
> have
> the latest video card driver installed and that hardware acceleration is
> turned on.
>
> We have no idea what this means....it worked fine until just yesterday and
> this started. Could anyone help us????


Is hardware acceleration enabled?
Is DirectX enabled?

Enabling the video hardware is dicey because it would vary from system to
system. Here, I can't even do it as the drivers do not permit the adjusting
of it via the Display Setting's Advanced setting's Troubleshoot tab. I would
have to use ATI's Catalyst. If you use Nvidia, you probably can find their
applet in the Control Panel.

Anyway try this:

Right-click on a blank area of the Desktop then select 'Personalize > click
on Display Settings > hit the "Advanced settings.." button > go to the
'Troubleshoot' tab and adjust the slider [if present, if possible].

Otherwise use the video card software and enable 3D, video acceleration or
what have you from there.

+++

You also should check the DirectX settings:

Start > All Programs > Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and
select 'Run as administrator'

When the Prompt opens type in:

dxdiag
[then hit Enter]

And check the various tabs to see if DirectX is enabled.

Saucy

In your advance setting button, "adjust slider". As you stated if
possible.
it is not displayed, My video card in installed on the mother board,
biostar TForce TF7025-M2-r Do you offer any other resolve.
In my case the pop-up is"The game is running in rendering mode"
Thank you Larry


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