@Rockfire: calm down hehe, i know how you feel
If the emu needs a DX9 compliant graphics card, then your gonna need at least a GeForce FX, 6,7 and 8 series or a Radeon 9500 and above graphics card for shader model 2.0 functions, anything less than those and you will only have pixel and vertex shader 1.1 to 1.4(Geforce 3 and 4Ti series, Radeon 8500 to 9250 series), lower than these means no pixel shaders, just Hardware TnL