Your guys are still missing the point of my problem. For example, Delta Force 3 Land Warrior (a first person shooter) runs on DirectX and requires a graphics card. This game draws about the equivalent of 20 Utah Teapots a second. I am getting on average 2 a second. Big difference. 2 FPS is not enough to make smoothe graphics, and we''re talking just a teapot here. So my computer is well capable of faster, but MY programs are not going neerly as fast (1/20 in reality) per polygon as retail games. I know retail is quite a bit faster, BUT NOT THAT FAST. There is something wrong with my DirectX. I have searched the web and found nothing. Dito on Microsoft site. Because Microsoft is a monopoly, they do not feel they need to give you any help with there shity products. ANY IDEAS ARE APPRECIATED.

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IIRC :

Bump mapping : modifying the normals with a texture.
DISPLACEMENT mapping : actually modifying the 3D object with a texture (or something ).
Environment mapping : Using textures to simulate the effects of the environment (lighting, reflexions) on an object.

and a GeForce2 can''t do environment in any way?!?!!??!

WTF?!!!!!!!!?!?

Your not the only one with the crap like that going on. I''ve used
both a Ati Radeon and Geforce2MX 400 based cards in my system.
On my 500Mz system Half-Life a P133Mz required game is at most
times unplayable. I have about 11 233mz or under games and not
one of them runs as well as they should. Two days ago I got curious and dropped my old 4MB Dimond Viper v330 PCI card in
and in some games was getting better FPS? APG didn''t even exist
when I bought that thing. I think I got a crapy MOBO or something.
I can''t wait to replace the damn thing.

Whoah... DanG, I have no idea what you''re talking about, but are u the daniel who I know? I am John...

Just wondering...