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Gooday. I have been trying to watch wwtelescope, it says it needs 3d graphics and directx. How do I download 3d graphics.
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You don't. Your graphics card either supports 3D graphics or it doesn't.

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  • Microsoft® XP SP2 (minimum), Windows® Vista® (recommended)
  • PC with Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 gigahertz (GHz) or faster, recommended
  • 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM; 2 GB RAM recommended
  • 3D accelerated card with 128 megabytes (MB) RAM; discrete graphics card with dedicated 256-MB VRAM recommended for higher performance
  • 1 GB of available hard disk space; 10 GB recommended for off-line features and higher performance browsing
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  • Microsoft® DirectX® version 9.0c and .NET Framework 2.0

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You can go to Start -> Run and enter dxdiag. On the Display tab, it will give you information about the graphics.
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Gooday. The display tab said generic driver, change. When I download driver(nvidia geforce 2mx 100/200) it says driver exists, override, when I do that it says can't locate any drivers compaiible with hardware. When I go to device manager video is in yellow other devices and says no driver. I have been using wwt before and was ok. I reinstalled wwt and is same.
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I am currently in very similar circumstances, I am upgrading my drivers (nVidia) and I've "lost" my storage controller drivers (and I have only done around 15 restarts of Windows this morning ).

What I suggest you do is to look for updated chipset/motherboard drivers and install those.

If things don't get updated, (what I am about to do is) go to Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs and uninstall the listings for the hardware. Restart and run the installers again.

You will need a good set of drivers. "Generic" are definitely not good.

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Hi All, I like the telescope, downloaded & Installed no problem on my system, have you had a look at Photosyn yet?
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