Under Win98, it's displayed in Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System. The "General" tab shows processor speed and installed RAM. I imagine other Win OS's have similar steps.
In the same dialogue box, the device manager should display what type of card you are using when expanding the "display adapters" field...or clicking on the display icon in the control panel folder itself. Alternately, you can right-click any empty spot on the screen to call up the display settings to find out.
Failing that...
You most likely have a display options icon sitting in the lower-right of the display bar (the utility tray). You could right-click that as well to find out adapter info.
Incidentally, the DirectX configuration menu should show you all of the above info in addition to the version of DX your system is using. To call it, click Start and then Run... and type in dxdiag.
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grapplernz
17 years ago
Thanks for explaining all of this. Here is what the DirectX Diagnostics Tool said about my computer.
Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller and Chip type
CPU: 2.70GHz
248MB RAM
DirectX 9.0b
64.0 MB Total Memory
The system seems fine so I'm not sure why the screen freezes.
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NukeyShay
17 years ago
Just typing that controller product number brings up a lotta pages regarding gaming and DX issues...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2282845G+Graphics+Controller %22
It sure seems like the only way to deal with the card is to replace it with something more suited to gaming...which could be a problem if your system doesn't even have a PCI or AGP slot to use (or has a very low-end power supply). Given how old the game is, you should be able to find something pretty cheap that has no compatability issues.
At least it looks that way.
At the very least, updating DX to 9.0c might be a good idea (the latest version of DX9). It's free...and there might have been something that was missed in 9.0b.
Edit:
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010470.htm
That page shows GTA3 as being fully-compatable with your card. So it's starting to lean toward a driver issue. If the DX update doesn't work, check your display adapter software version vs. the current version downloadable from Intel (right-clicking the system tray icon should have an "about..." dialogue box to look at).
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grapplernz
17 years ago
Thanks.
I downloaded 9.0c but the game still freezed. I'll have to think about other options after christmas. Or ask Santa Claus for a more pwerful computer.
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