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DirectX or Graphics drivers - games are crashing!

  • 25-02-2006 10:53am
    #1
    thehomeofDob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭


    As of the last month or two half my games have been crashing within about 20-30 minutes play, though sometimes it's much quicker. The main culprits are Battle for Middle Earth and Sniper Elite, the latter never gives an error message when it crashes, but BfME gives me this.

    dxerror0nb.png

    If I try to restart either game after it crashes I get this error.

    directxerror21vx.png

    After running dxdiag everything shows up fine apart from testing Direct3D
    Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x887602eb (error code)
    Direct3D 8 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8876086a (3D not available)
    Direct3D 9 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8876086a (3D not available)

    Now after I reboot - all games will start up properly, and dxdiag shows no faults with anything.

    I've resintalled DX9c twice - doesn't change a thing, then I tried uninstalling my graphics drivers, running driver cleaner, then reinstalling the drivers. That sorted the problem for about a day - then back again to crashing every 20 minutes.

    I'm totally stumped - I have a feeling this is gonna require a reformat... which I don't wanna do as I've just got everything reinstalled from my last format - and my DVD drive is on the blink so can't use my back up disk.

    Oh yeah - here's my system spec.

    WindowsXP Home SP2
    P4 Northwood 3.06GHz 133FSB
    Asus P4S533-X Mobo
    1GB DDR 2700
    BFG - Nvidia Geforce 6600GT

    Everything has the latest drivers.


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