When i try to start the Demo for Call of Duty 2, it says i have a window that pops up saying: Error during Intializtion: No valid rendering code path detected. then it goes to this.


Pixel shader version is 0.0
Vertex shader version is 0.0
Video card or driver doesn't accelerate transform and lighting.
Video card or driver doesn't support high-quality polygon offset.
Video card or driver doesn't support direction lights in the fixed-function pipeline.
DirectX 7 rendering path will not be available.
Video card or driver doesn't support texture coordinate generation in the fixed-function pipeline.
DirectX 7 rendering path will not be available.
Video card or driver doesn't support enough texture coordinates for the DirectX 9 code path.
DirectX 9 rendering path will not be available.
Video card or driver doesn't support enough textures for the DirectX 9 code path.
DirectX 9 rendering path will not be available.
Video card or driver doesn't support enough hardware lights for the DirectX 7 code path.
DirectX 7 rendering path will not be available.
Error during initialization:
No valid rendering code path detected.


Plz help me get this working!

what video card do you have?

Um... I am not sure. How can i tell you what card i have? Thnkx

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This post has been edited by mycompsux: Oct 20 2005, 12:54 AM

Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller [Display adapter]

Looks like onboard video. You need a video card to play Call of Duty 2. An ATi Radeon 9800XT and up or a nVIDIA GeForce FX 5900XT and up should be fine.

Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller is onboard graphics.

Onboard graphics is simply not up to the job of running modern games, you need to upgrade your graphics card.

ok
thnk u!!!

If i wanted to get a good graphics card, where is the cheapest one i could buy having 128 for the display memory??? i need the 128 for the display memory, to play bf2 also... could you see where i could buy a good cheap graphics card w/ 128 for display memory? This is a major help!!!! THANK U!!!!!!!!

newegg.com

k. thnkx again

Can u go to this link and see which graphic card i need for 128 display memory or a good graphic card? thnkx

http://shop3.outpost.com/search?search_typ...aphic+card&cat=

Looking at the Specifications of your Dell Dimension 3000, it appears that it doesn't have an AGP slot so upgrading the graphics is next to impossible. You would have to get a PCI graphics card not PCI Express (PCI-E) just normally PCI.

This post has been edited by ZEUS_GB: Oct 21 2005, 01:27 AM

Would this cover the graphics i need to play bf2 and call of duty? how much $$$???