Direct draw error

[WW2O]

Downloaded v5.01 downloaded the vid988

extraced both ... vid to /snd/stream tried to run but its a no go

[Paul Vebber]

Diresct Draw errors are caused by the making Direct Draw cals that the cuurent version of Direct draw you have, or your video card drive can;t understand. I would reinistall DirectX (v7 or higher) and your video card driver.

[WW2O]

got direct x 8 installed. still no go

[Paul Vebber]

What's you system config? It has to be something particular to your machine. I assume your drivers are up to date, but with the size of hard drives these days, file corruption is always a possibility. I'd reinstall your video drivers, then the game.

[WW2O]

celeron 466
ram 328
riva tnt 2 xentor 16 meg.


All drivers up to date.
will reinstall drivers and then again the game.

downloaded v5.2..and the v6.1

still won't work

exact error is "direct draw initilizing error -x (and here a big number)"

anyone else ever have this problem ?

[Marc von Martial]

For your TNT2 card I recommend you to get the latest Detonator driver pack from NVIDIA

www.nvidia.com

The Detonator drivers solved my direct draw errors that I had with Close Combat when I upgraded to W2k.

Hope this helps

[WW2O]

detonator installed still gives same error ...could the download be corrupt?

[Paul Vebber]

I doubt the file got corrupted, or you would get errors installing, but its possible. How long has it been since you installed windows. If you use your PC several hours a day, after 4-6 months I've found Windows 9x gets corrupted and needs to be reloaded. Are you getting other "blue screen of death" errors? I've found taking the hard drive down to reformat and reinstall everything makes a world of difference.

[Supervisor]

Some gamers have beaten the Direct Draw bug by uninstalling SPWAW completlely, right down to directory removal, rebooting and reinstalling SPWAW fresh never to see the bug again. It's worth a try.

[WW2O]

THX!


The uninstall didnt help . But manually delteing everything helpen . Thx guys see u on the battlefield someday

[Supervisor]

WW20: Does that mean your good to go and it's working or is additional help required?

[Larry Holt]

What OS are you running?

[WW2O]

the game works .

thx

os: win 98