DirectX 9 not registering.

Alright, a couple months ago I made a thread which asked people why Guild Wars wasn't registering DirectX 9 in-game (F11, tells you at bottom). I had DX9 installed on my computer, however, and somebody told me my video card most likely wasn't compatible with DX9.
I just recently upgraded my video card, it is now ATI Radeon 9800 (as far as I know) which, although new for me, is still not the most up-to-date video card. But I bought it off a friend for cheap, so I could care less.

Anyway.
This card is completely compatible with DX9, yet, Guild Wars still refuses to acknowledge that I have DX9 installed on my computer, and continues to use DX8.
I heard something that maybe it's my motherboard?
I'm not a computer wizz, so, forgive me if that sounds stupid?

Basically I'm just wondering if there's any way I can get GW to register DX9.
Could it be that, when I installed GW originally, I still had the card that was only compatible with DX9? And therefore it is still registered in-game that way due to the fact that I installed it as such? Or ... is it a completely different problem?


Help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.

You don't have the -dx8 command line parameter in your shortcut for Guild Wars do you?

Yeees I do.

Remove that parameter and your Guild Wars will run on DirectX 9 again. :P

Awsome. Thanks!

You wouldn't happen to know what causes the character creation glitch as well would you? To save me posting a second thread on the matter.
I posted one the other day and nobody replied.

Basically every time I go to make a character and pick a gender, the pictures are all glitched out. I KNOW I've seen an article or a post on this, but I can't for the life of me remember where.

Gamewiki - Guild Wars

Says it was fixed 28 July, 2006.

Well ... so much for that being true ...
Ah well.
I suppose there IS no way to fix it, besides uninstalling. But I really don't feel like having to download a crapload of updates again.
Meh.

Cheers.

ok, i am having the problem, not registering DX9 on my system, and i do NOT have the -dx8 flag in my loader shortcut... i know my card IS DX9 compatible, DXDiag runs the DX9 tests very efficiently...

any help for me there?

DXDiag does not test everything required for GW to run in DX9 (even my old laptop with a 4MB ATI Rage Mobility passed the DXDiag DX9 test...)

Which graphics card do you have? I think you need at least a GeForce 5xxx or Radeon 9xxx (but not 9000-9200) to use DX9.

My computer isn't registering directx 9 either. I found out it was because I had a GeForece MX card. The thing is, I do have an ATI (One of those All in Wonder deals) card installed as well, and i used to have no problems enabling post-process effects in the graphics menu. Now I can not. Basically I am just annoyed that I can't see the effects of being drunk in game anymore. I used to be able to, and I don't understand how one day it works fine, the next it doesn't.