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error... plz help!

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:36 pm
by gh0570fchurch
hmmmm... i ran halo, but then got an error:

"A problem occured initializing directdraw. Hardware acceleration maybe disabled, please run dxdiag"

so, i ran dxdiag, and it didnt find any problem, so what do i do? someone plz help...

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:24 am
by mustard_pudding
try reinstalling. that always helps :D

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:50 am
by gh0570fchurch
but i just did

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:06 pm
by Kurroda
well did u modify anything

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:36 pm
by gh0570fchurch
i modeled some stuff... it worked for a couple days, then it stopped

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:15 am
by Scottyopizza
I had that problem a lot too when I was trying to play halo on my computer for the first time. It only worked once I got a new graphics card.... :?

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:01 am
by tebteb
Nice bump ya did there 8)

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:22 am
by fourn443
thats not much of a bump it was only like 11 days up or so

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:00 am
by MasterNeoChief
Your Graphics card is probably too old, or you don't have the latest DirectX drivers installed.

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:02 pm
by gh0570fchurch
my graphics criver is pretty good (i have played halo on it before), also, i got it fixed srry i didnt tell you.