No joy. It says "This program must run with DEP enabled" etc etc. Actually,
the reason I'm after this is because recently I've been trying to play
Half-Life 2 Episode 1. At the same point in the initial parts of the game, it
crashes out with an internal engine error: IDirect3DDevice9::Present() error.
This is a DX API, if I'm not mistaken. So I ran DX tests with the
aforementioned results. Strangely enough, from my understanding, this
function is a very important part of all DX-compatible apps. But I'm able to
play most games (e.g. C&C3: Kane's Wrath, UT2004, Halo 2, Gears of War) with
no problems and very acceptable performance. Is it due to Vista? Will
switching to XP help?
"John Barnes" wrote:
> Exclude it from DEP processing in the bottom section
>
> "Aditya Krishnan" <Aditya (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:4EF6AF04-9B61-47F6-9011-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi, I've been having a problem with DirectX 10. I ran DXDiag to check my
> > D3D
> > settings and while it was doing the driver gathering thing, DXDiag crashed
> > and Vista said that DxDiag was shut down due to DEP. I have disabled DEP
> > for
> > all programs except Vista essential services. Next time I tried it said
> > there
> > may have been a problem accessing DirectShow and would I like to skip it.
> > Selecting No gives the same crash again and hitting Yes makes it ok except
> > there is no option to test D3D under the Video tab. How can I fix this? I
> > have a Packard Bell Easynote laptop running Vista Basic with 1 GB of RAM
> > and
> > an ATi Radeon Xpress 200M video chip.
> >
> > Thanks for your time!
>
>