Intel Pentium 4 CPU Is Not Identified Correctly by Windows 2000 Direct3D

Direct3D performance may not be as fast as you expect when you run Windows 2000 on a computer with an Intel Pentium 4 CPU.

This problem can occur if the version of Direct3D that is included with Windows 2000 does not properly identify Intel Pentium 4 processors and does not fully implement the performance optimizations that are available only on Pentium 4 processors.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.