Problems with Direct Draw and Direct 3D

[Guest]

when i start a game on Win XP it says before it starts: Could not Instalize
Direct Draw and it seems to have a problem with Direct 3d aswell. i am
running a AMD proccessor and Win XP Home Edition and my Graphics card is a
Nvidia Ge Force 4 with 128 MB on it. can anyone help me please?

 

[johnf]

The first thing is to increase the amount of RAM. XP needs a MINIMUM of 256
to run, preferably 512, especially with lots of graphics.
Go to Start, Run, type in dxdiag, Enter, check which version you have and
run a full diagnostic check.
The latest version is 9.0c and can be downloaded from -
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx?url=/windows/directx/downloads/default.htm

 

[johnf]

Sorry, that's the MS version no., your screen at the bottom of DirectX will
show the version as 5.03.0001.0904

 

[Robert Moir]

when i start a game on Win XP it says before it starts: Could not
Instalize Direct Draw and it seems to have a problem with Direct 3d
aswell. i am running a AMD proccessor and Win XP Home Edition and my
Graphics card is a Nvidia Ge Force 4 with 128 MB on it. can anyone
help me please?

First of all goto nvidia.com and download the latest drivers for your card,
and then with those installed, go into Direct X diagnostics (go to start,
select 'Run', type DXDIAG and hit 'enter'), and see if any problems are
reported.

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[Robert Moir]

The first thing is to increase the amount of RAM. XP needs a MINIMUM
of 256 to run, preferably 512, especially with lots of graphics.

I believe they were talking about the amount of RAM on the video card, and
also, merely having a low amount of memory wouldn't typically cause the
symptoms described.

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[johnf]

Yep, sorry, I missed that bit.

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johnf

I believe they were talking about the amount of RAM on the video card,
and also, merely having a low amount of memory wouldn't typically cause
the symptoms described.

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Website - http://www.robertmoir.co.uk
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http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/VirtualPC2004FAQ.html

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[Guest]

Sir,
go to -->" Display Properties"--> Settings--> advanced--> Trouble shoot -->
slide "Hardware acceleration" to FULL--> enable "write combining" --> apply,
OK

now install Direct X Again, this will fix your problem, also try in start
menu --> run command --> "dxdiag.exe" and perform direct x test for agp
acceleration and direct draw.

Regards

Sony Payyappilly

 

[Alceryes]

slide "Hardware acceleration" to FULL--> enable "write combining" -->

apply,
OK

The 'write combining' setting is a performance setting isn't it? If anything
it should be left off until the problem is fixed.

 

[Guest]

Its ok, I have sorted it out now!
all I had to do was download my ASUS A7V8-X Motherboard drivers from the
website and now its sorted! thank you all for your help!
Alex