ethan Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 i cant play high-end games that use DX8. i can play anything under 8, but not 8. 8 games: Ut2k3, Maxpayne 7 games: emperor, etc. lower: original DOOM games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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number6 Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 Looked at your DxDiag and there isn't anything that looks out of the ordinary except the DX8 D3D failure:"Direct3D test results: Failure at step 5 (GetDeviceCaps): HRESULT = 0x8876086a (3D not available)"That does not look good. Since DXDIAG is having an error I would suggest reinstalling DX8.1. If that does not work you might want to go to nvidia.com and download the latest retail drivers for your video card. Since you are able to play 3D games with the DX7 drivers I am guessing that some of your DX files must have been corrupted or something. Good Luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyarlathotep Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 Looked at your DxDiag and there isn't anything that looks out of the ordinary except the DX8 D3D failure:"Direct3D test results: Failure at step 5 (GetDeviceCaps): HRESULT = 0x8876086a (3D not available)"That does not look good. Since DXDIAG is having an error I would suggest reinstalling DX8.1. If that does not work you might want to go to nvidia.com and download the latest retail drivers for your video card. Since you are able to play 3D games with the DX7 drivers I am guessing that some of your DX files must have been corrupted or something. Good Luck!Indeed. Usually when DirectX 8 is installed, it says "DDI Version: 8", instead of 7... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number6 Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 Looked at your DxDiag and there isn't anything that looks out of the ordinary except the DX8 D3D failure:"Direct3D test results: Failure at step 5 (GetDeviceCaps): HRESULT = 0x8876086a (3D not available)"That does not look good. Since DXDIAG is having an error I would suggest reinstalling DX8.1. If that does not work you might want to go to nvidia.com and download the latest retail drivers for your video card. Since you are able to play 3D games with the DX7 drivers I am guessing that some of your DX files must have been corrupted or something. Good Luck!Indeed. Usually when DirectX 8 is installed, it says "DDI Version: 8", instead of 7...Good point about the DDI version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethan Posted November 30, 2002 Author Share Posted November 30, 2002 could you tell me how to reinstall DX8? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyarlathotep Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 Just download directx 8.1 from microsoft and install it. You can't uninstall directx, so the only thing you can do is to install a (new) version over the old one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethan Posted November 30, 2002 Author Share Posted November 30, 2002 i reinstalled it and nothing changed! wtf is the problem!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number6 Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 i reinstalled it and nothing changed! wtf is the problem!?Did you try installing the latest retail driver for your video card? I would try that next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethan Posted December 3, 2002 Author Share Posted December 3, 2002 i did the driver thing and nothing changedi have a MSI Starforce Geforce 4 MX 420. i downloaded nVIDIA drivers. is that were i went wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyarlathotep Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 No, Nvidia drivers should be fine, unless you installed the wrong OS drivers (meaning Win9x drivers, while you have XP)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethan Posted December 4, 2002 Author Share Posted December 4, 2002 no, im on a different computer. have any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyarlathotep Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 Try to remove the video card drivers and revert to normal VGA display adapter. Then shutdown the pc (no restart). Then turn on the pc again and let it find the video card again. First have it find the drivers itself. When done, update the video card drivers. Try to run the dxdiag test again. If it still fails, try reinstalling dxdiag again. The above needs to be done in that order.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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