Can't run any of the ATI demos

[Tim Mavers]

I am trying to run some of the ATI demos such as Bear, Pipe Dream, Chimp,
etc. on my Radeon 9800 Pro AGP (128MB) board and I get an error message
telling me that it can't find a compatible card! If I look under Display
Adapters in Device Manager I see:

RADEON 9800 PRO
RADEON 9800 PRO - Secondary

I have the latest drivers from ATI (as of today that is). Games run fine,
just not these demos. The error message, which is nearly the same for each
demo is:

//=====================================================
// ATI Sushi Error Log Created 10/24/2003 11:02 am
//=====================================================
[AwFn.cpp] (line 437): D3DAw Error: AwInitWindow - Unable to find an
acceptable display adapter
[Main.cpp] (line 557): AwInitWindow returned FALSE! Unable to create
window! Quitting!

Any ideas how I can fix this (without having to reinstall my OS)? I tried
reinstalling the drivers, without success.

My hardware consists of:

ASUS P4C800 DELUXE
2GB of PC3200 DDR Dual-Channel Memory
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO (128MB DDR) (retail)
Intel Pentium 2.60c (hyper-threaded)

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks!

 

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//=====================================================
// ATI Sushi Error Log Created 10/24/2003 11:02 am
//=====================================================
[AwFn.cpp] (line 437): D3DAw Error: AwInitWindow - Unable to find an
acceptable display adapter
[Main.cpp] (line 557): AwInitWindow returned FALSE! Unable to create
window! Quitting!

Any ideas how I can fix this (without having to reinstall my OS)? I tried
reinstalling the drivers, without success.

Yes. This happenes from time to time. You just need to reinstall the
drivers and everything will be allright.

 

[Amir Facade]

you also must have DX9 installed.


: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:07:51 -0400, Tim Mavers wrote:
:
: > //=====================================================
: > // ATI Sushi Error Log Created 10/24/2003 11:02 am
: > //=====================================================
: > [AwFn.cpp] (line 437): D3DAw Error: AwInitWindow - Unable to find an
: > acceptable display adapter
: > [Main.cpp] (line 557): AwInitWindow returned FALSE! Unable to create
: > window! Quitting!
:
: > Any ideas how I can fix this (without having to reinstall my OS)? I
tried
: > reinstalling the drivers, without success.
:
: Yes. This happenes from time to time. You just need to reinstall the
: drivers and everything will be allright.

 

[Tim Mavers]

//=====================================================
// ATI Sushi Error Log Created 10/24/2003 11:02 am
//=====================================================
[AwFn.cpp] (line 437): D3DAw Error: AwInitWindow - Unable to find an
acceptable display adapter
[Main.cpp] (line 557): AwInitWindow returned FALSE! Unable to create
window! Quitting!

Any ideas how I can fix this (without having to reinstall my OS)? I tried
reinstalling the drivers, without success.

Yes. This happenes from time to time. You just need to reinstall the
drivers and everything will be allright.

Thanks for the reply. I checked with DXDIAG and it looks like I have DX 9
installed (all the filename versions end in .900), I also tried installing
the previous drivers (Catalyst 3.7 - 6.14.10.6378) and the latest (Catalyst
3.8 - 7.94) and still can't run the demos. It also seems to be getting
worse.... Now I can't play _ANY__ games... I just tried the Call of Duty
demo for the first time and it said it can't find the GL subsystem.

I think I am going to have to reinstall the OS... Ugh... I just hate going
through all that system activation bs with microsoft... ugh...

 

[Marko =?iso-8859-2?Q?Svir=E8i=E6?=]

Thanks for the reply. I checked with DXDIAG and it looks like I have DX 9
installed (all the filename versions end in .900), I also tried installing
the previous drivers (Catalyst 3.7 - 6.14.10.6378) and the latest (Catalyst
3.8 - 7.94) and still can't run the demos. It also seems to be getting
worse.... Now I can't play _ANY__ games... I just tried the Call of Duty
demo for the first time and it said it can't find the GL subsystem.

Hmm... When you run DXdiag, you don't need to chek the file versions. The
version of DX is displayed at the first window that you see, when the app
starts.

I think I am going to have to reinstall the OS... Ugh... I just hate going
through all that system activation bs with microsoft... ugh...

Maybe you just need to reinstall the DX. Alo, did you remember to uninstal
the old drivers first, then reinstall the new ones?

And, what OS do you run?

 

[Amir Facade]

well, if you are worried about OS activation, you must be running some
version of Windows XP. Sooooo... have you tried system restore?


: On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:23:53 -0400, Tim Mavers wrote:
:
: > Thanks for the reply. I checked with DXDIAG and it looks like I have
DX 9
: > installed (all the filename versions end in .900), I also tried
installing
: > the previous drivers (Catalyst 3.7 - 6.14.10.6378) and the latest
(Catalyst
: > 3.8 - 7.94) and still can't run the demos. It also seems to be getting
: > worse.... Now I can't play _ANY__ games... I just tried the Call of
Duty
: > demo for the first time and it said it can't find the GL subsystem.
:
: Hmm... When you run DXdiag, you don't need to chek the file versions. The
: version of DX is displayed at the first window that you see, when the app
: starts.
:
: > I think I am going to have to reinstall the OS... Ugh... I just hate
going
: > through all that system activation bs with microsoft... ugh...
:
: Maybe you just need to reinstall the DX. Alo, did you remember to uninstal
: the old drivers first, then reinstall the new ones?
:
: And, what OS do you run?

 

[Marko =?iso-8859-2?Q?Svir=E8i=E6?=]

well, if you are worried about OS activation, you must be running some
version of Windows XP. Sooooo... have you tried system restore?

Who's worryed about OS activation?