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Timmay · 07-02-2003, 03:53 PM

Visiontek would not help me with this issue, I dont really think they knew how, so I did a little looking around, and I hit GOLD!!! I found this online help and got my opengl working with windows 2003 server. It opened the nvidia graphics options in the display properties, it did not even show this option before.

it is how to make a windows 2003 server into a workstation. Now here is the opengl info. By default Windows Server 2003 is hardware acceleration disabled for graphics cards, meaning only 2D and limited 3D capability is there. We can enable all this painlessly and without much effort. You will still be required to install 3D enabled drivers (like ATi Catalyst or nVIDIA Detonator drivers) for Windows 2000/XP. These can be installed on Windows Server 2003 but only after hardware acceleration is enabled will they work (and display the 3D related tabs in display properties) .

Right Click on desktop > Select "Properties" > Select "Settings" tab > Click "Advanced" > Select "Troubleshoot" tab and move the Hardware Acceleration slider all the way to "Full" > Click OK > OK

That’s not all, DirectX (8.1) DirectDraw, Direct3D and AGP Texture Acceleration is also disabled by default on Windows Server 2003. (pic) to enable:

Click Start > Run > Type dxdiag & enter > Select Display tab > Click Enable on all Acceleration options > Click Exit

The result is Hardware Acceleration and DirectX enabled for Windows Server 2003. as you can see in the above pic I still have the default Microsoft drivers installed for my GeForce 4 Ti4400, so unless you had been previously prompted to reboot now is a good time to install those Detonator drivers (version of your choice) for Windows 2000/XP. If you use another type of card your 3D enabled drivers can be installed now. (Please remember that the latest Detonator drivers require DirectX 9)

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Timmay Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: San Diego Posts: 12	for anyone running 2003 and cant get OpenGL Visiontek would not help me with this issue, I dont really think they knew how, so I did a little looking around, and I hit GOLD!!! I found this online help and got my opengl working with windows 2003 server. It opened the nvidia graphics options in the display properties, it did not even show this option before. it is how to make a windows 2003 server into a workstation. Now here is the opengl info. By default Windows Server 2003 is hardware acceleration disabled for graphics cards, meaning only 2D and limited 3D capability is there. We can enable all this painlessly and without much effort. You will still be required to install 3D enabled drivers (like ATi Catalyst or nVIDIA Detonator drivers) for Windows 2000/XP. These can be installed on Windows Server 2003 but only after hardware acceleration is enabled will they work (and display the 3D related tabs in display properties) . Right Click on desktop > Select "Properties" > Select "Settings" tab > Click "Advanced" > Select "Troubleshoot" tab and move the Hardware Acceleration slider all the way to "Full" > Click OK > OK That’s not all, DirectX (8.1) DirectDraw, Direct3D and AGP Texture Acceleration is also disabled by default on Windows Server 2003. (pic) to enable: Click Start > Run > Type dxdiag & enter > Select Display tab > Click Enable on all Acceleration options > Click Exit The result is Hardware Acceleration and DirectX enabled for Windows Server 2003. as you can see in the above pic I still have the default Microsoft drivers installed for my GeForce 4 Ti4400, so unless you had been previously prompted to reboot now is a good time to install those Detonator drivers (version of your choice) for Windows 2000/XP. If you use another type of card your 3D enabled drivers can be installed now. (Please remember that the latest Detonator drivers require DirectX 9)