Direct3D Issue

[Digital X]

As my card is off being off looked at I bought a cheap replacement, GT 210. Barely a scratch on performance but was worth a shot.

I tried dirt rally but was meant with a failed to create d3ddevice or you dont have direct x 11. I have direct x 11.1 installed with the drivers that allow the GT 210 to work on Win10. On integrated all games work fine.

Why would this happen?

I've recently bought a Gainward Phantom 560ti to see if that would help (not here yet, mind) , as the card I'm using may be too old.

 

[Confused Stu]

The GT210 is DX10 only, Nvidia introduced DX11 support with the 4xx family. Your CPU's onboard GPU is DX11 capable, and I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be noticeably faster than the 210 too! The 210 is good enough for putting a display on a monitor or playing videos & YouTube, but not really designed for anything more taxing than that.

The 560ti is DX11 (and a HUGE amount faster than the 210) so should be fine to run Dirt Rally when you get it.

 

[Digital X]

Ah cheers! Well there's another backup if we need one haha.

As it said DX11.1 in dxdiag I assumed it was there but thanks for the clearup.

 

[Confused Stu]

Ah cheers! Well there's another backup if we need one haha.

As it said DX11.1 in dxdiag I assumed it was there but thanks for the clearup.

Yeah, that is confusing. It means DX11.1 software is installed, but it would cause less questions if it could list in the same place which DX the current hardware supports too. Had to have the same conversation with my boss a few weeks ago when he couldn't get his AMD 4870 to run Alien Isolation.