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by **cegifer** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:05 pm

Hi, I have just installed a radeon 9200se and i am having problems running some of my games, when i try to open games such as starcraft, or star wars galatic battlegrounds i get an error screen saying direct draw could not initilize, any ideas

p.s. i have tryed reducing my hardware acceleration, but it was no use.

by **brad** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:18 pm

Do you have the latest version of ?
brad

by **cegifer** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:22 pm

by **teststrips** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:15 am

direct draw will probably be a separate download unfortunately. While you are at it, you might want to make sure you have the latest Direct X too.

by **cegifer** » Mon May 03, 2004 9:06 pm

ok not happy now, i have got directx 9b and the catalist 4.4 and still got probs, it will play farcry and unreal2004 no probs it just wont work on the older stuff, i am running oyt of ideas could another program be running direct draw, if so how do i find it?
thanks for any help this is really anoying

by **icecube** » Tue May 04, 2004 12:50 am

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