Can't enable VMR9

[Steve2112]

I'm just curious as to why I can enable this option. When I toggle it on, it says make sure you have 32MB video available, and have DirectX up to date.

I have an nVidia MX4000 video card with 128MB, and I have DirectX 9.0c

Any reason that would prevent me from trying this mode?

Thanks

[gplasky]

Your card is too old and doesn't support DirectX 9 in hardware. I'm not even sure that card supports DirectX 8 in hardware.

Gerry

[zoundz]

dunno bout that

I'm happily running VMR9 on a GEForce4 MX440 with 64MB Vram and DX 9.0c. What OS are we talking about. Which NVidia driver version.

[Steve2112]

It's Win XP SP2, and according to the device manager the nVidia driver is 7.1.8.9

[gplasky]

A GeForce4 440MX has this:
• Integrated Dual 350MHz DACs – driving
dual independent displays with crisp and
clear image quality at 2048x1536
resolution at 75MHz.
• Integrated Dual-Channel TMDS
Transmitters – enabling two independent
Digital Flat Panels (DFP) displays at
resolutions up to 1280x1024.
• Integrated TV Encoder – providing bestof-
class TV-out functionality up to
1024x768 resolutions.
• Integrated Video Processing Engine (VPE)
– allowing for the highest quality, fullframe
rate, and full-screen HDTV and DVD
playback.
• API support
° Complete DirectX® support, including
DirectX 8.1
° Full OpenGL® 1.3 support

As opposed to the GeForce MX4000 series
• Powered by nVidia GeForce4 MX-4000 Single Chip GPU
• 64/128MB 32/64/128-bit DDR Frame Buffer Memory supported nView Display Technology, provides unprecedented flexibility and control for using multiple displays
• Dual 350MHz RAMDAC dual VGA monitors support in MX4000
• TV-Output support 1024x768 resolution
• Accuview Antialiasing delivers unprecedented AA performance and quality to the mainstream market and enables high resolution, high frame rate, full-scene antialiasing for the first time ever in this market segment. Lightspeed Memory Architecture(LMA) II Technology
• Video Processing Engine (VPE) enables the highest quality, full-frame rate, full-screen HDTV and DVD
• XP graphics solution Guarantees forward and backward compatibility with nVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) Microsoft DirectX Optimizations and support
• Complete OpenGL 1.3, OpenGL and Direct X7 support
• Max effective memory clock at 500MHz
• AGP 2X / 4X / 8X

The 4000 series was more designed for an office PC than any type of gaming or HTPC. Keep in mind when you run VMR on Windows XP you're running VMR9 which will really operate best on DirectX 9, works somewhat on DirectX 8, but Direct X7 never heard of it. That is why there is also just VMR which is also known as VMR7. XP will default to this if it can't do VMR9.

Gerry