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direct draw problems

Posted:
Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:05 pm
by cegifer
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.

Posted:
Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:18 pm
by brad
Do you have the latest version of ?
brad
unsure

Posted:
Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:22 pm
by cegifer

Posted:
Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:15 am
by teststrips
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.
direct draw

Posted:
Mon May 03, 2004 9:06 pm
by cegifer
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

Posted:
Tue May 04, 2004 12:50 am
by icecube