DXdiag showing "agp texture acceleration" not available on laptop, this normal?

[pieman109]

Just aquired a laptop, toshiba with 1.6ghz "M" 730, 512m ram, and I've reinstalled xp and drivers, etc. Everything is working fine but I had look in dxdiag and the "agp texture acceleration" is showing as not available.
Is this wrong or is this just a limitation of the onboard graphics chipset, its an Intel 915GM chipset btw.
Cheers.

 

[FatRakoon]

Most if no all LapTops have a basic 3D capable graphics chip in them.

I would say no these days.

If its not available, then check that you have AGP Drivers installed ( For the AGP Port on the Mobo ) and that the Graphics drivers ( The actual chipset drivers for the graphics ) are the correct ones.

 

[Cartho]

It is intel extreme graphics - that is not a graphics card, it does not sit in an AGP slot, or any form of slot for that matter.
My laptop has this.
They are not capable of AGP texture acceleration, hence why it is disabled.....

 

[FatRakoon]

I know LapTops dont have a Graphics port. Thats obvious.

However, a lot of LapTops are capable of fairly good 3D Graphics, and as such, they EMULATE AGP.

Its the same with PCIE Systems... They dont have an AGP port, but they have AGP Acceleration!

Its this that may or may not need such a driver.

Im only offering options as I have owned laptops in the past that do in fact require such a driver.

 

[pieman109]

Cheers for the replies guys, I reckon its due to there being no agp slot on the mobo meself. I loaded up an old 3d game, homeworld, and there is full 3d movement, and it looks and feels the same as before when used with a "proper" vidcard (no AA or AF though ). I've also reinstalled the chipset and vidcard drivers a coupla times and its still the same, so its looking like this is normal.