deathkid874

I am expierencing a problem with Halo CE trial, everytime i play it says "A problem occured initializing DirectDraw. Hardware acceleration maybe disabled, please run DXDIAG" so i run DXDIAG and i find out that direct draw, direct3d, and AGP texture accelerations are all not available and in notes it says "The system is using the generic video driver. Please install video driver provided by the hardware manufacturer. To test direct draw functionality, click the "Test DirectDraw" button above.Direct3d functionality not available. You should verify that the driver is the final version from the hardware manufuncturer." (I am using direct x 9.0 c)
So i went to divice manager to try and install the latest driver but when i got there the display adapters option wasen't there. This did not happen when i had windows 2k. Please help

koala

Hi, welcome to TSF

What graphics card do you have?

Go to the manufacturer's website for the latest compatible XP driver. The 2 most common graphics card names are ATI and nvidia.

Download the correct driver, then disable antivirus, install the driver and reboot. Then install the latest DirectX (Aug'08) and reboot again to complete.

deathkid874

I don't know what type it is i tried everything i could to try to find out what type it is but i still cant find it i even downloaded aida32 to try and find out but i still couldn't find out

koala

Go to Start > Run > dxdiag > Display tab and post back with everything listed in the Device and Drivers sections.

Is it onboard or a graphics card?

deathkid874

Device:
Name:
Manufacturer: n/a
Chip Type: n/a
DAC: n/a
Approx. Total Memory: n/a
Current Display Mode: 800 x 600 (32bit) (1Hz)
Monitor:


Drivers:
Main Driver:vga.dll
Version:5.01.2600.0000 (English)
Date:04/10/2001 18:16:30
WHQL Logo'd:Yes
Mini VDD:vga.sys
VDD:n/a
DDI Version:unknown


I can't tell if its onboard or graphic card

koala

Can you play any other games on this computer? Has Halo ever worked before?

Download Everest and go to Computer > Summary, then post back with the motherboard details.

The date for your driver is 2001. Is this an old computer?

The quickest way to tell if it's onboard or a card is to look at the back of the computer to see where the monitor is plugged into.

deathkid874

Looks like it's an onboard.
Heres the motherboard details:
Motherboard
CPU Type Intel Celeron, 2400 MHz (24 x 100)
Motherboard Name Unknown
Motherboard Chipset VIA P4M800 Pro
System Memory 352 MB
BIOS Type AMI (02/15/06)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
and yes my computer is old.
While i was checking my motherboard information i found this under it:
Display
Video Adapter VIA/S3 UniChrome Pro
3D Accelerator VIA/S3 UniChrome Pro
Halo did work when i had win 2k on this computer.
Also another direct X game is the hunting unlimited series they worked on win2k and i frgot to mention win98 i use to have it on this computer and hunting unlimited worked on it but halo didn't but it was not the same problem

koala

Good find! That's what we're looking for.

You can download a more recent graphics driver for the VIA S3 (P4M800 chipset) from here.

Disable antivirus, install the driver and reboot. Then install the latest DirectX (Aug'08) and reboot again to complete.

Run the 2 tests in dxdiag under the Display tab. If there are no problems listed in the Notes after the tests have finished, try playing Halo again.

deathkid874

Im not 100% sure that this will work because last time a downloaded a driver it sent a virus into my computer and i had to reinstall the whole thing

koala

I've downloaded the file and scanned it with Avira. No problems found. And the website is listed as 'Safe' by McAfee Site Advisor.

deathkid874

ok ty i tried it it worked but now i got another problem with the game, whenever i move th mouse the screen changes its size for 1 second and turn back to the siz i set it

koala

Thread closed. New problem posted: Screen problem (halo)