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Unable to create D3D device

  • 12-06-2002 10:21am
    #1
    Ba$tard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I just feel I owe it to any poor ba$tards who find themselves in my situation....

    One night, I was merrily playing GTA3 and CS, the next day I couldnt... simple, eh? not really...

    GTA3 complained that my video card did not have 12mb of memory even though it has 64mb.....soo, off I went to dxdiag and ran a few tests...
    W2k SP2, Athlon, KG7, GeFartsII Ultra, 512ddr, SCSI HD, dx8.1, IE6.0 pack

    AGP Texture compression was greyed-out disabled
    D3D was disabled and tests failing after enabling
    DirectDraw was enabled and tests passed

    Funny thing was Approx Video Memory read: n/a (come again?!?!)

    Off I went and hamered google for a bit...found a few exact searches...excellent....everyone was stumped on it...a few good explanations but too many format/reinstall dudes :(
    I reinstalled newer drivers, older drivers, MANUALLY deinstalled DX 8.1 from the inf filelist..(what a pain..) NO LUCK

    I found one post in the corner of my eye which mentioned something about NetMeeting Desktop Sharing being enabled...

    I disabled the Remote Desktop sharing in NetMeeting, options, sharing and rebooted....installed 23.42 detonators and dx81eng...

    Ran dxdiag + GTAIII perfectly....

    I think the issue is an overlay which Remote desktop sharing implements over your desktop layer (which can make some +256 colour icons bleed (esp. norton AV one) ) that screws DX..

    Just FYi incase you are banging you head off the wall also...

    James.


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