D3D malfunction My ATI Radeon 9250 card has the latest drivers installed and i'm also using the latest directx version for XP but for some reason the D3D function is not working right. sometimes it is enable while sometimes it is not. also my computer seems to hang whenever there is a heavy load on graphics. is this a hardware problem or can this be resolved by software?

Call of Duty 2 Minimum System Requirements
3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB hardware accelerator video card and the latest drivers*
English version of Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
Pentium IV 1.4GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1700+ processor or higher
256MB RAM (512MB RAM recommended)
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
4.0GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 600MB for Windows 2000/XP swap file)
8x speed CD-ROM or 2x DVD-ROM drive

Multi-player Requirements
Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported
Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers
LAN play requires network interface card and latest drivers

Supported Chipsets
ATI Radeon 8500
ATI Radeon 9000
ATI Radeon 9200
ATI Radeon 9500
ATI Radeon 9600
ATI Radeon 9700
ATI Radeon 9800
ATI Radeon X300
ATI Radeon X550
ATI Radeon X600
ATI Radeon X700
ATI Radeon X800
ATI Radeon X850
nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra
All nVidia GeForce 3/Ti Series
All nVidia GeForce 4/Ti Series
All nVidia GeForce FX Series
All nVidia GeForce 6 Series
**Recommend nVidia GeForce 7 Series or higher

Do your PC support the above hardware requirements?
The most common input no support would be your graphic card is not up to the mark to play the PC games.

Is your graphics card drivers up to date to the latest?
Have you updated your DirectX to the latest version?

Hope it helps.

Hello jadanleib, You can download latest driver for ATI RADEON 9250 video card from amd website fully compatible with Windows XP Professional, Home Edition. Click save driver to your computer, install the driver, don't forget to restart the computer.

Copy and paste link into your browser and press enter.

Here is the link:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/radeon-prer300-xp.aspx

Good Luck!

It sounds like the wrong drivers or old drivers are installed, try the following drivers:
http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati_winxp.php

Those should help.

Devil May Cry 4

Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP/Vista

• Processor: Pentium 4 @ 3 GHz

Memory: 512 MB (1 GB for Vista)
Hard Drive: 8 GB Free

• Video Memory: 256 MB (nVidia GeForce 6600 SM3 Required)

Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO
Memory: 1 GB (2 GB for Vista)
Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
Video Memory: 512 MB (nVidia GeForce 8600)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c or 10
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

Seems like your graphic card is not supported. Its a older version. My first solution would be update your driver for your graphics card: http://driver.wareseeker.com/download/visiontek-radeon-9250-agp-8.072.rar/1e97d07a01 or http://www.soft32.com/Download/Free/VISIONTEK_RADEON_9250_AGP/4-172246-1.html

If that doesn't fix it (which I don't think it will), you might just have to buy yourself a better graphics card and/or computer.

That card is getting a bit out of date but should be able to handle lighter games like World of Warcraft. I will post a link to the latest drivers for you but if they don't work it's likely you will need to replace the card with a newer more powerful one.


http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Click the link, then fill in the boxes with your windows version, Radeon, 9250/9000 series. It will take you to the download page for the newest drivers.

Hope this helps FixYa,

Chris

Remove all traces of ATI drivers from add/remove programs and reboot before trying to install the newest Catalyst Control Center. The latest - 9.4 - does NOT have your card listed (they list the PCIe version, not AGP).

Recently ATI removed support for many of their "legacy" cards. 9.3 may be of more use to you.

Follow this link and get the latest catalyst drivers for your card.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/radeon-prer300-xp.aspx

this very good fixya!

go here
and find your driver
Sergio

all u hav eto do buddie and u wann do is download latest version from www.ati.com ok under support 8.1 ect always update