HALO PC and Radeon 9700 Pro problems...

[JR]

I can't get this game to start up with my Radeon 9700 Pro, giving the error:
"Error initializing Direct3D, please run DXDIAG and make sure hardware
acceleration is enabled" or something along those lines, any assistance or
input is appreciated, TIA...

JR

 

[JAD]

have you run diag?
search folders for DXDIAG cause its been moved around in the last few versions

 

[Andrew]

I can't get this game to start up with my Radeon 9700 Pro, giving the error:
"Error initializing Direct3D, please run DXDIAG and make sure hardware
acceleration is enabled" or something along those lines, any assistance or
input is appreciated, TIA...

I refer you to the answer I gave to your previous question.

 

[Mark]

Yes it sucks doesn't it? I had this one on 3 PCs I tried it on. Two with
9700 Pro's and one with 9600.

Well worth 35 quid (NOT).

I found that running a command prompt and typing:

halo -?

gave me a load of options you can use with Halo.exe.

Halo -window runs OK but hey it's in a window

Halo 1024 768 70

Runs it at 1024x768 @ 70 refresh. Worked for me. Great buy a game then
have a problem on a major 9700 release, with latest DirectX and ATI Cat
3.8's still doesn't work. Nice testing MS!

Try that and if no luck try 60 for refresh. Work

 

[KooJiiKoo]

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I can't get this game to start up with my Radeon 9700 Pro, giving the
error: "Error initializing Direct3D, please run DXDIAG and make sure
hardware acceleration is enabled" or something along those lines, any
assistance or input is appreciated, TIA...

JR

Are you using any forced refresh rates ??
I was using ReForce program to get some forced refresh rates in some games
and when i restored the original settings, the HALO game did run fine.

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

JR,

The most probable problem is that you have used ReForce, or a program like
ReForce, to strip unwanted refresh rates from your display. This will NOT
cause problems for anyone in 99% of applications and games. However, if an
application or game requests a specific refresh rate... one that has been
filtered out by ReForce or a like... then you might run into a problem. This
is what you are experiencing. Rather than re-installing the drivers to get
the default set of refresh rates back, simply do this:

1. You want to explicitly tell Halo to use a specific refresh rate.
2. Figure out what resolution you want to run at, and what refresh rate that
resolution uses. (In my case this would be 1024x768@100hz)
3. Edit your Halo shortcut and add the following to the end of the command
immediately after ...halo.exe" -vidmode x,y,z (where x is the horizontal
resolution, y is the vertical resolution and z is the refresh rate. In my
case the whole shortcut looks like this - "C:\3dfx stuff\Halo
Trial\halo.exe" -vidmode 1024,768,100

hope that helps.

 

[LeeB18509]

I can't get this game to start up with my Radeon 9700 Pro, giving the error:
"Error initializing Direct3D, please run DXDIAG and make sure hardware
acceleration is enabled" or something along those lines, any assistance or
input is appreciated, TIA...

JR

Start, run, dxdiag. Display tab, click on "disable". See what it says.