The screen just looks gray where the circuit board should be. What seems to be happening is that it is drawing things correctly and then is immediately overwriting the entire workspace with a background color. Unfortunately, the Altium package is not working properly in DirectX mode. GLView and Altium both see that Shader Model 3 is available. If you would like to reproduce this problem, I think the freely available Altium Designer Viewer will also produce this DirectX error message if the hardware 3D support is selected from inside the tool.īuild 4.2.1-80930 is an improvement. Is it normal that the Direct3D version 7,8 tests fail? To test DirectDraw functionality, click the "Test DirectDraw" button above.ĭirect3D 7 test results: Failure at step 40 (Creating flipping primary surface with one back buffer): HRESULT = 0x88760064 (error code)ĭirect3D 8 test results: Failure at step 4 (EnumAdapterModes): HRESULT = 0x8876086c (error code)ĭirect3D 9 test results: All tests were successful.
#Video card does not support shader model 3.0 driver#
You may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware manufacturer. The file VBoxDisp.dll is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). This is becoming a major concern as Altium has indicated that the they will phase out the GDI interface and require the DirectX 9.0c to be available to use future versions of their software.įYI, the dxdiag command gives me the following output: I have attached a screencapture of the error message I get when I try to enable 3D support within the Altium tool. I am trying to run Altium Designer 10 in a Windows XP virtual machine and have installed the "experimental" 3D support in the guest and selected the 3D option on the host.Īltium Designer requires DirectX 9.0c which must include shader model 3 support.