The values used in the attempt to create the GraphicsDevice were invalid.

The values used in the attempt to create the GraphicsDevice were invalid.

• Paul Baudouin

  According to my Device Manager, I have a Rage 128 Pro Ultra GL AGP. What should I have in order to create and run games in XNA

  AG

  
  

• beermix

  IIRC the Rage 128 is DX7 era hardware. You'll need a card that supports the programmable pipeline (we recommend something that supports at least Shader Model 2.0 or above). You can find reasonably priced SM2.0 cards these days (or check Ebay).

  
  
  

• Chris D Jones

  Struan wrote:

  I got it to work. Add this line after the Graphics component is created: graphics.AllowMultiSampling = false; Then in the WindowsGame_Starting function set graphics.AllowMultiSampling equal to false again.

  
  
  THAT WORKED!!
  Good on ya mate
  This is a congratulatory sheep ->
  
  
  

• .net sukbir

  Thanks for the reply Paul, I have a geforce 4 ti4200 on this pc.

  I get this error in the InitializeComponent method of the sample projects

  
  

• Umair Khan

  I tried that, but I continue to get the same error. I'm just trying to build the basic Windows Game (XNA) project (from File->New). The relevant (I think) code looks like this:

  private void InitializeComponent()
  {
  this.graphics = new Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.GraphicsComponent();
  this.graphics.AllowMultiSampling = false;
  this.GameComponents.Add(this.graphics);
  }

  There's no WindowsGame_Starting function in this example.

  Any suggestions

  AG

  
  

• CSB_FL

  I'm getting the same error here at work..... card is an nVidia Quadro 2. lol.... not sure if its the shader model or what.
  
  

• Roozbeh Sharafi

  Hi Aaron

  What type of graphics hardware do you have

  
  
  

• Tamil mannan

  What type of card do you have We should be giving a better exception message than that (i.e. we check for lots of things and throw better exceptions but that one must have slipped through.)
  
  

• Andreas Georgsson

  And apparently I'm unable to make edits to my posts.
  
  Anyway, the error is this (it happens at runtime):
  
  "NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException was unhandled" on line 26 of SpacewarGame.Design.cs
  
  

• Maclau

  I got it to work. Add this line after the Graphics component is created:

  graphics.AllowMultiSampling = false;

  Then in the WindowsGame_Starting function set graphics.AllowMultiSampling equal to false again.

  
  

• PerBylund

  try line 109 in SpacewarGame.cs
  
  

• Robert Wakeland

  Groovy. This is a bug. We're supposed to fallback to disable multisampling if it isn't available. I'll file a bug.

  
  
  

• tomdart

  Yeah, that did it. Thanks a lot!
  

• Jason Croft

  Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600 here, same error - total bummer too, might have to work on the laptop for a while until I either buy a new card or a solution arises... still, looks like nice concise code, reminds me of the Jad engine, good stuff guys at least from what I can see of it :)
  
  
  
• The values used in the attempt to create the GraphicsDevice were invalid.