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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Games / March 2007lost directX device
I've just purchased a new computer with Vista- my standard games(free cell, mah jongg, hearts...) were all working fine, but now I get a critical error message 'failed to create directX device' when I try to open any of them. What's wrong, and how do I fix it? Go to Microsoft web site and download DirectX 10 you can find it under the download section. Where the heck, do you see the option to download DX 10 ? > Go to Microsoft web site and download DirectX 10 you can find it under the > download section. Under the Future section of Web 5.0. :-) I don't think they offer DX10 as a direct download, as Vista has it pre-installed, and it won't work with Vista. As for the solution to the problem, it may be video driver related. You might try reinstalling the video drivers for your video card. It may have had a Windows Update that installed and messed them up.  SignatureDustin Harper dharper@vistarip.com http://www.vistarip.com -- > > Where the heck, do you see the option to download DX 10 ? > >> Go to Microsoft web site and download DirectX 10 you can find it under >> the >> download section. Actually, she posted that a reboot fixed the problem. I kinda thought people already knew to dothat first, for every problem :\ And didn't you mean.."Vista already has it pre-installed, and it won't work with XP ?" Or are you telling us dirty little secrets about Vista and DX10...hmmmm ? > Under the Future section of Web 5.0. :-) > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >>> the >>> download section. Yes, that's what I meant! :) Saw that this morning after reading over it. Oops! I thought rebooting was one of the first steps for troubleshooting things like that as well. :) SignatureDustin Harper dharper@vistarip.com http://www.vistarip.com -- > > Actually, she posted that a reboot fixed the problem. I kinda thought [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >>>> the >>>> download section. My understanding is that Dirextx 10 will not be available for WindowsXP there fore making WindowsXP a defunct O.S. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/footnotes.mspx http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1224334&SiteID=1 > Yes, that's what I meant! :) Saw that this morning after reading over it. > Oops! [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >>>>> the >>>>> download section. It won't work with XP. DX10 is only available for Vista due to major kernel changes. Making it for XP would be too big of a project, and would pretty much upgrade XP to Vista in the process. So, if you want to play DX10 games you will need Vista. And after seeing some of the videos and screenshots of some, why wouldn't you!? :-) If you haven't heard of Crysis, look it up. And another favorite of mine: Flight Simulator X is coming with a patch the end of this year (hopefully!) to add DX10 features. SignatureDustin Harper dharper@vistarip.com http://www.vistarip.com -- > My understanding is that Dirextx 10 will not be available for WindowsXP > there fore making WindowsXP a defunct O.S. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >>>>>> under the >>>>>> download section. Defunct is a relative term. First, you must play games, then you must want to play DX10 games, then you must have DX10 hardware to play said games I still get a kick at looking at valve's hardware stats. http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html If you have the X1900 series, you're in the 1% group. Got the 8800 family, you're in the .88% group (that's point 88, as in less than 1%) 75% have 1GB or less of RAM over 90% are using windows XP, only .99% is using Vista Now that's only a sample of 1.16 million gamers or at least gamer's systems. But the Steam games is faily popular and gives a pretty good snapshot of where gamers are at. it would be really great if Blizzard did hardware snapshots for it's World of Warcraft users Do we really expect that everyone is going to run out to Buy Vista ?, then Buy DX10 hardware to run on it. When there is only maybe 5-10 games coming out this year to offer DX10 support and even then, they will have DX9 support. XP isn't dead, though obviously dying, but my prediction is, it will be 2 years, that's right 2 years, before it takes over the 75% OS used for gaming. unless some serious games come out that get people to jump. But I think this last december proved something important. The Xbox 360 had some great sales numbers (1.1 mil), but oddly enough it was beaten by PS2 (not PS3) with 1.4 million sales. Granted there is a bit of a price difference between the two, it does show that great graphics alone won't carry an platform. DX10 is a great tech, but it's not free and that will keep gamers on XP for a while longer > My understanding is that Dirextx 10 will not be available for WindowsXP > there fore making WindowsXP a defunct O.S. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >>>>>> under the >>>>>> download section. I downloaded a card game from True Poker website. I cannot get it to run. I get an error msg "True Poker is already running on this computor. If you cannot run this program reboot your computor". It is not working. Help > I've just purchased a new computer with Vista- my standard games(free cell, > mah jongg, hearts...) were all working fine, but now I get a critical error > message 'failed to create directX device' when I try to open any of them. > What's wrong, and how do I fix it? |
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