Direct3d help in Off Topic

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Feb 17 2006, 12:11 am
My friend's computer can not run Halo PC. When it starts up, the monitor clicks three times and then an error pops up "A problem occured when try to initialize Direct3d. Hardware acceleration may be turned off. Rune dxdiag."

I have run dxdiag, and everythign checks out ok, but the box for direct3d spins at like 3,000mph.

Video Card: Radeon 9600XT
Drivers: CATALYST 5.5 Windows XP
OS: Windows XP Home SP2
Memory: 512mb pc3200
HDD: 80gb SATA
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+

Any help is appreciated for solving this. Thanks!
#1 Feb 17 2006, 12:29 am
<font size=-2>Halo on PC sucks anyway, you're not missing anything... *cough* I mean... *whistles*</font>

Tried updating his video drivers yet?
#2 Feb 17 2006, 12:52 am
In response to Crispy (#1)
Do you have direct x? Have you got the most updated version?
#3 Feb 17 2006, 8:14 am
In response to ADT_CLONE (#2)
He's got 9.0c which is a new enough version. And I already updated to the newest catalyst driver.
#4 Feb 17 2006, 2:25 pm
Go into your "Control Panel" Find the Display icon, open it. Go into settings, then go into Advanced. From there find the Troubleshoot Panel. If down more then 4 notches D3D is disabled, put it at full or somewhere close, and try again.
#5 Feb 17 2006, 5:46 pm
In response to Strawgate (#4)
It's all the way up. Should I try some older drivers? I know when I had an Nvidia 5200, I download new drivers off of the nvidia site, and they had an error with 5200s and Half-life 2.
#6 Feb 17 2006, 6:01 pm
In response to Soccerguy13 (#5)
My recommendation would be, to download a new D3D driver set
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx
I would also recommend install the default drivers that came with the Graphics card, and see if that works.