Hi Raymond,
That's great news!
I'm glad you're no longer experiencing the
"Direct3D initialization failed" error with your AOE III game!
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Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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Raymond Wrote:
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| Jimmy
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| I delete the subfolder My game in My Doc.
| I reinstall the AOEIII
| That is no problem
|
| Raymond
|
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
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|| Hi Raymond,
||
|| You wrote that you couldn't find a solution at the site that I posted,
|| however I did not simply post a site to help you resolve the issue,
|| I posted comprehensive instructions on how to install, update and
|| troubleshoot your DirectX, video, and system drivers, which are
|| all components of your system which could cause such issues.
||
|| Raymond, please try each step and post back with the results.
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
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|| Raymond Wrote:
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||| Jimmy S.
|||
||| At that site I cannot find the solution.
||| I can play the AOEIII ago
||| All hard ware and software are same
||| But I use ghost to restore the Windows and reinstall the AOEIII, It say :-
||| Initialization Failed
||| Direct3D initialization failed
||| Possible causes Old or corrupted graphics driver
||| Direct3D improperly installed
||| Hardware acceleration disabled
||| Starting the application with the workstation locked
|||
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||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Raymond,
||||
|||| Please try the posted solutions and report back with the results.
||||
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|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
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|||| Raymond Wrote:
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||||| Hi Jimmy S
|||||
|||||
||||| I could play AOEIII ago
||||| But I reinstall the windows XP then I reinstall the AOEIII
||||| I cannot play AOEIII
|||||
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||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi Raymond,
||||||
|||||| Updating video card drivers can solve most gaming issues. Here's some
|||||| simple abc's to always keep in mind. a. Shut off download accelerators,
|||||| firewalls and antivirus programs when downloading or installing updates;
|||||| b. Check for game patches:
www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
|||||| c. Make sure you meet the game's minimum video and system requirements;
|||||| d. Check for known issues with your video card at the game's web site.
||||||
|||||| 1. Before you update your drivers, I recommend that you update DirectX
|||||| from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx
||||||
|||||| Here are the steps I recommend you use to update your driver. If you've
|||||| never done this before I recommend you also look over the Installation hints
|||||| and Release Notes both of which are linked to from their download page.
||||||
|||||| 2. Download the latest drivers from:
www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
||||||
|||||| 3. Save the .exe driver in My Documents\My Drivers\nVidia
||||||
|||||| 4. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
|||||| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
||||||
|||||| 5. Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
|||||| Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
|||||| the adapter, pick "Uninstall", and click No if asked to reboot.
||||||
|||||| 6. Use Control Panel / Add-Remove programs to uninstall the
|||||| previous driver (exe)software which may have been installed.
||||||
|||||| 7. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
|||||| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
||||||
|||||| 8. If Windows prompts you to install the adapter, click "Cancel".
||||||
|||||| 9. Double click the nVidia driver we saved to My Documents\My
|||||| Drivers\nVidia folder in step 3 to install.it. If it complains about
|||||| Windows Logo Certification just click "Continue". This is normal.
||||||
|||||| 10. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
|||||| choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 800x600 or higher Resolution.
||||||
|||||| TROUBLESHOOTING:
||||||
|||||| Test your drivers using DXDiag: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
|||||| Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
|||||| If any of the Display options are Disabled and you cannot Enable them,
|||||| your most likely solution would be to update your Chipset Drivers as per
|||||| my website:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/Video.html#v11
||||||
|||||| Your program might not support dual monitors, or "dual head" video cards
|||||| You can disable the extra video output in your display properties control
|||||| panel. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced.
||||||
|||||| Along with your Video card, Sound Cards, Motherboard Chipsets,
|||||| and Video Monitors may also require updated drivers. Even your
|||||| motherboard's BIOS may need to be updated for compatibility with
|||||| your Video card. These steps are listed at:
http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk
||||||
|||||| Perhaps the old Nvidia drivers did not completely uninstall. If that's the
|||||| case, use this utility to completely uninstall the drivers and go to step 7:
||||||
http://content.guru3d.com/index.php?page=detonatorrip&menu=0
||||||
|||||| The latest video drivers sometime don't work with a particular game.
|||||| (Check the Video suggestions in the readme.txt file in your game folder/CD)
|||||| If there's no suggestions, try an older (WHQL) driver, and/or if you still
|||||| experience problems try a Beta driver, or even an Omega driver instead:
||||||
|||||| BETA Drivers:
http://download.guru3d.com/
|||||| OMEGA Drivers:
http://www.omegadrivers.net
||||||
|||||| There you have it, if you have any questions feel free to post them!
||||||
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|||||| Cheers, Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User
|||||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
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|||||| Raymond Wrote:
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||||||| When install AOEIII and run it
||||||| It cannot run and the log show"PreGame 8722: nvCPL reports 0 GPU(s).
||||||| PreGame 8722: Unable to get SLI mode!"
