Garris Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 I have not kept up to date with the changes in the program for awhile and am now revisiting. Great to read that the long awaited pan & zoom feature is in the works. My question is will I be able to utilize this feature? I have a 600 MHZ Athlon, 380MB Ram, 3dfx voodo3 video card with 8MB memory. I recently installed Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 which has the pan & zoom feature but I can not access the slide show at all. I get a message that my video card does not support direct x 9 and the module will not open. Since I am not interested in upgrading this 6 year old clunker I will have to waite awhile to get into video. It sure would be nice to add the pan & zoom effect to my slide shows though. Do you think it will run on my system? I downloaded one of the recent shows from this forum and my monitor only displayed the top half of one image. Obviously my card could not handle that show. I dont recall who provided it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 Garris i think you need a minimum of the latest direct x9.0e i believe.better do a search of forum for video cardalso search for demos -- there have been quite few demos posted on forum to try ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 I think the latest is 9.0c. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 Al is correctDirectX 9.0chttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=enken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 "video card with 8MB memory"Sorry, but for Pan/Zoom/Rotate and animations with Direct X, it's insufficient. More powerful video card is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garris Posted June 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 There is a built in utility (like msconfig) that you can run using the run command. I can't remember what it is called but I ran it several weeks ago and it tests your system's ability to handle direct x. WinXP-2 has direct x 9. My system passed all of the tests even though my video card does not support dx9. Hmmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted June 17, 2006 Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 rundxdiagbut on my main systemi have 64 mb ram on my board and some demos are very jerkyon my backup system it has not over 16 mb and even Igor's demo's are a bit much for it and it passes the dxdiag testsbefore the beta's were issued Igor ran a poll re video card requirementshttp://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....wtopic=3729&hl=ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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