Cannot Create D3D Device issue

[jbrom5402]

ok guys, im sure your all experts or some of you are anyway.

Im running on a Sony Vaio, 900mhz AMD Duron MMX, 3DNow.

This PC came with WinME and when ME is installed this pc will play "KnightOnline"

Sure it is a lil choppy and laggy simply because of the 8mb vid card and 312MB Ram

Now I use the XP home 5.1 build 2600 install CD that comes with my eMachine.

Everything installs quickly and smoothly, I install Norton 2008 that came with my Router.

I install my game and I get the error, "Initialization- Cannot Create D3D Device- please check DirectX or display card driver."

I go to DirectX Diagnostic Tool and see that im running xp with sp2 2002

and DirectX 9.0c 4.09.0000.0904.

my display driver was at first a 300/350/630/730 sis or something like that, then i went to update and updated to 630/730 just to see if it made a difference.. it didnt.

so anyone know how to help me?? much appreciated!

 

[raybay]

You do not have enough computer, nor enough RAM, and not nearly enough operating system... WME and a 900MHz VAIO, and an eMachine?
Norton 2008 is too much for the 312 mb, or for WME.
You need a serious upgrade

 

[jbrom5402]

ok

im poor i have no money. i have two pc's. one is a 2004 eMachine which is not too bad, nothing like what your using im sure. but the fact remains, everything worked fine when i was running wme. now it is not. is there a way to fix it without going on a crime spree?

 

[raybay]

Most techs on this forum know that Windows ME is the worst and most troublesome operating system ever used.
You can do a complete WME install, and get back to normal for a while... WME has a pattern of corruption that becomes increasing worse until it will no longer work. But it takes a reformat and reinstall to make it get back to normal.

 

[jbrom5402]

ok and yes i understand that wme is obsolete and troublesome. which is why I want to keep my XP however ME runs programs that the XP will not. it seems as though xp is too much for my pc.

 

[raybay]

Then use the steady and reliable, and very good, Windows 98 Second Edition... you are just kidding yourself using WME. There is nothing WME will run that W98SE will not.