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Unknown Problem Initialising Graphics

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S7eve

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I was playing 'Need for Speed - Hot Persuit 2' recently and it worked without any problems. I then installed and tried to play 'Jedi Knight 2' but kept getting an arror. I can't remember exactly what it said but it was something about a problem with OpenGL.

So...I updated my graphics driver and graphics card Bios and JK2 worked.

Now, NFS won't run at all. When I launch it I get the error 'Unknown Problem Initialising Graphics' I have also tried running a demo of 'Total Immersion Racing' but get the error message 'Unable to create the device: D3DERR_INVALIDCALL'

I ran 'dxdiag' and it reports the following problem...

DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
Display Tab 1: No problems found.
DirectDraw test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D test results: Failure at step 5 (GetDeviceCaps): HRESULT = 0x8876086a (3D not available

I thought DirectX 8 may have become corrupted so I installed DirectX 9 and now get this...

Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D 8 test results: Failure at step 5 (GetDeviceCaps): HRESULT = 0x8876086a (3D not available)
Direct3D 9 test results: All tests were successful.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Asus TUSL2-C motherboard
PIII Tualatin 1.2GHz CPU
512Mb PC133
Gainward GeForce4 Ti4200 Graphics Card
 
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Each game takes its own version of DirectX (as the CD starts, it wants to install the correct version). I'd be surprised if any of your games uses DX9...so that's only gonna' complicate an aready dicey setup.
Motherboard chipset drivers are an important step to NOT leave out in the video install process. Did you load them?
Looked in Event Viewer logs for error messages?
Each game has its own config file...and sometimes they get corrupt. Either editing them outright or uninstalling/reinstalling them brings the game around.
 
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There was various error messages in the Event Viewer but none seemed to have anything to do with the games I was trying to run however, I deleted all of the logs and now the games run again!

I'm not sure if or how that fixed it but it did. I'd be interested to know what happened???

Thanks anyway.
 
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... and re-running 'dxdiag' gives:-

Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D 8 test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D 9 test results: All tests were successful.

:)
 
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