Hello everyone,
I have a problem with access to Direct3D after I formatted my harddrive.
My videocard is a Nvidia TNT2 4xAGP, a pretty old one. I installed directx9.0c and the lastest driver from the Nvidia website, detonator 71.84.
Well, when I wanted the run the game Mafia, my pc froze up. Then I tried to run Dxdiag but it went very sluggish and it said that Direct3D was not accessible and also directdraw. I couldn't activate it.
Maybe it has something do to with the driver. I installed another one, 61.xx with the device manager but the problem is still there.
I am a fairly experienced pc user, but I have never had this before. What should I do next. When I uninstalled the 71.84 driver, with driver cleaner, I rebooted first before installing a new one. Windows gave the message that no display driver is installed and that I needed to reboot. Everytime I did this the same message appeared.
I went into safe mode and used system restore to go back when 71.84 was installed. Then I installed 61.xx.
Could it be that after using driver cleaner I need to install other driver first and then reboot? I thought that Windows would use a standard vga driver when no Nvidia driver is installed at reboot?
My system is a pIII 866 Mhz with 192 Mb Ram and Win ME.
Please help me with getting Direct3D working again!
Thanks
I have a problem with access to Direct3D after I formatted my harddrive.
My videocard is a Nvidia TNT2 4xAGP, a pretty old one. I installed directx9.0c and the lastest driver from the Nvidia website, detonator 71.84.
Well, when I wanted the run the game Mafia, my pc froze up. Then I tried to run Dxdiag but it went very sluggish and it said that Direct3D was not accessible and also directdraw. I couldn't activate it.
Maybe it has something do to with the driver. I installed another one, 61.xx with the device manager but the problem is still there.
I am a fairly experienced pc user, but I have never had this before. What should I do next. When I uninstalled the 71.84 driver, with driver cleaner, I rebooted first before installing a new one. Windows gave the message that no display driver is installed and that I needed to reboot. Everytime I did this the same message appeared.
I went into safe mode and used system restore to go back when 71.84 was installed. Then I installed 61.xx.
Could it be that after using driver cleaner I need to install other driver first and then reboot? I thought that Windows would use a standard vga driver when no Nvidia driver is installed at reboot?
My system is a pIII 866 Mhz with 192 Mb Ram and Win ME.
Please help me with getting Direct3D working again!
Thanks