Hi,anyone have any ideas here as to why this is happening,I will include my sys specs at the bottom of this post.FS9 seems to run OK and I don't seem to have any real issues apart from the known driver bug of the lines etc with the CAT36/37's from ATI, I have the Hercules 9800 Pro 128mb card, I was trying to install my medal of honor allied assault game on my new machine and I kept having problems with it,the tech support guy at EA Games went through a few things with me which seemed to be OK, he took me through the DX Diag part and said ''theres you're problem'' which you will see in the screen shot, I disabled everything at the start up of XP Pro,and tried un-installing my cat3.6's and re-booting, then removing any traces reg entrys etc, then re-installing the cat3.6, then the 3.7's, but I still get this AGP issue, I'm wondering if its a card thats faulty here, I have all the latest drivers,up-dates etc,and my BIOS is set correctly,although I did try disabling enabling AGP fastwrites etc,and altering the AGP aperature size from 128 to 256,512 etc,all made no difference at all.any help here would be most welcome guy's,thanksSteve.37973.jpg

Hi Steve,I can definitely relate! I used to have the same problem on my system although updating the motherboard drivers solved the problem. At the time I had a motherboard with an SIS 650 chipset.Hope this helps!James

Hi,Had the same problem using WinMe. When I upgraded to WinXp, agp acceleration was enabled. Can't figure out why upgrading the os should make this difference.Ed

are you running a dell xps dimension? do you have any yellow "splats" in your device manager?

Hi Guy's,yes I do have 2 yellow items in the My Computor section that are open every time I start the machine, but I have no idea as to why, I don't get any error messages or anything,I am truly lost here,and,sorry! I forgot to include my sys specs as promised (duh,what a moron)thanks again to all that have and are hopefully trying to help,Steve.Win XP Professional SP1.ASUS Enforce2 Deluxe MB A7N8X Rev2 USB2.AMD Barton XP3200+Seagate Baracuda 160 GiG Serial ATA HDD.1024MB Corsair Extreme Low Latency CAS 2 RAM.Vantec Stealth 520W PSU.NEW Herculese 9800Pro Graphics card 128MB.4X Vantec Stealth Fans 120mm.Vantec Stealth CPU Cooler.Vantec Nexus Rehobus controller.Vantec Nexus Multipanel. http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/38054.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/38055.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/38056.jpg

Here is a "trick" that might help.Run DXDIAG and shut off the three accelerations (I think they are direct draw, direct 3d and agp aperature) that are found under the display tab. Do it for each display you have.Reboot, and then go to DXDIAG again and turn them "on". If you've recently changed video drivers this sometimes helps.Good luck

I guess James is tight. I had exactly the same problem like you and James and I fixed it by updating the motherboard drivers.Wolfgang