How do you know if you hold a 3D accelerator surrounded by your video card?

I enjoy a ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series and i wanted to know if i have a 3D accelerator in it or something can anyone bring up to date me? what i can do to find out? or where i can attain a 3D accelerator card?

How do you know if you hold a 3D accelerator surrounded by your video card?

Unless your graphics card is a museum piece, all modern AGP, PCI & PCI-E cards enjoy 3d acceleration. Check using dxdiag (RUN: DXDIAG). This will tell you if acceleration is enabled and but for, load the drivers for the relevant card.
run dxdiag



From Start pick RUN

enter dxdiag



Directx Utility should answer your question
That paticular chipset *does* have 3d acceleration, as most middle-of-the-road graphics cards do today (there are business-class cards that do not do this, however).



While this is probably a different card from yours, it is the same chipset. You will distinguish 3D Acceleration listed a few times.



http://www.amazon.com/diamond-multimedia...
budge to start -> run -> and type 'dxdiag.exe' without the '



consequently go to the 'display' tab - see if your 3D accelerator is hardware or software base.