direct x problem

[8chaos]

hey everyone im having this issue with my computer, i reinstalled windows xp on here, and when ever i try to run a game either it crashes, or minizes to the taskbar and stays minized, i run the direct x dianostics tool and it says i dont have enough video memory

Direct3D 9 test results: Failure at step 29 (DrawIndexPrimitive): HRESULT = 0x8876017c (Out of video memory)





my windows is a unattended just for this computer, it worked fine all winter i did about 10 reinstalls before now i have all these problems, i did put a sound blaster live in, but i changed the cd so it supports that to, i tryed takeing the card out, still have the same problems, im guessing this computer has reached the end of its life... idk what to do

[8chaos]

well this morning the computer wasent booting, took the x1300 out, it booted fine on the intergrated vid card, only problem is its a 16mb chip, so no mapping for me lmao, cant even play quake III

[daze]

Hey, i had the same problem and sec ago i found out that new ati drivers are f**ked up.
Try instaling omega drivers instead of ati original drivers. This fixed the problem for me.

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

[8chaos]

yeah, i gave it another shot the other day first the mobo i gots has no clip for the agp port so the card slides out i reseated it got video then i rolled back the drivers to the previous version and everything worked like a charm, im so glad my card wasent broke, im ganna try that omega driver hopefully those can squeeze a little more fps out of my card, i was shocked to find out my p3 can run battle field 2 very well.