Hardware Rendering Problems

Everytime i hopen maya the output widow pups up and say "Shadow mapping extensions insufficient to support hardware rendering."

Does anybody know what does it mean? And how to solve this problem?
This would help me a lot.

Thx for reading this email.

i got the same problem man..., but haven't fixed it yet.

Someone told me about the grafic card driver but still doesn't work on a newer driver.

so i don't know., ., keep trying (i'm really looking forward for this soft )

thewebagent, what video card do you have?
From what i know you need a pro video card like quadro to support hardware rendering.

Indeed you need a professional video card for Hardware rendering in Maya.

here is a table from Alias website:

3DLabs Wildcat VP 870/970/880pro/990pro/760/560 3.1.6210 Full
nVidia Quadro2 43.51 Partial [w1]
nVidia Quadro DCC 43.51 Full
nVidia Quadro4 700, 750, 900, 780, 980. 43.51 Full
nVidia FX500 45.28 Full [w2]
nVidia FX1000 43.51 or 45.28 Full [w2]
nVidia FX2000 43.51 45.28 Full [w2]
nVidia FX3000 45.28 Full [w2]
ATI X1 6.13.10.1034 Full Driver properties must be set to "Maya NT"
ATI Z1 6.13.10.1034 Full
ATI X2 7.93.4.1-030917a-011258E Full