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No Suitable graphics card found.

Anonymous
2018-02-08T02:47:27+00:00

When attempting to open terraria, I get the message of no suitable graphics card found. And could not find a Direct3D device that supports the XNA Framework. I've tried what some people have said to do such as see if the card needed an update, but it said that it was up to date, and as for a graphics card I currently have a NVidia Geforce GTX. Its saying that I need to verify that a suitable graphics device is installed, make sure that the desktop is not locked, among others. Also when I attempt to run a game like stick fight it says that to make sure that I have not disabled 3D acceleration in display settings, but I failed to find the option to enable or disable 3D acceleration. And it says "Failed to initialize Direct3D". I'm not on the geek side of windows, I'm actually pretty new to it. So if anyone can help me fix these problems then that would be a huge help for me. Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-02-08T04:12:56+00:00

    You were mislead. Options to enable/disable 3D acceleration are long gone, and were never available on Win10.

    Are you using an old disk based version or a current download ? I would be surprised there would be any issues with

    Win10 when using the current updated Terraria, but I guess the core of the game hasn't changed ?

    You probably need to enable Direct Play in ...

    Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features On or Off.

    Enable Legacy Features and Direct Play.

    ( An great example of MS's short-sightedness, not having these options on by default. Particularly in view of

    MS promoting Win10 as 'the best gaming Windows ever'.

    Locked away in the rarefied atmosphere of the MS Ivory Tower, they don't seem to realise how many people still play old games. )

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