I am having problems with windows and graphics. I recently upgraded my computer to an Athlon 64 3500+ with an Asus (ATI) X300 PCIe graphics card. Since then I have not been able to play DVDs as PowerDVD locks up straight away and WinDVD 5 comes up with the error “Create overlay failed. Please lower your screen resolution or colour depth & try againâ€Â. I often experience the graphics card resetting and sometimes failing when playing modern games (Far Cry etc). I thought that the graphics card was not up to the job so I recently bought a Gigabyte X800XL (GV-RX80L256V), uninstalled the old drivers/card and installed the new one. Still the same problem. I think the problem is DirectX so I ran DXDiag. Everything comes up fine except for the DirectDraw7 test which returns “Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8007000e (Out of memory)â€Â. If I run the DirectX test in Sisoft Sandra The Direct Draw shows red crosses against everything in general capabilities (including “Has 3d Hardware Accelerationâ€Â) and Extended Capabilities (apart from “Can render in windowâ€Â). It also tells me in the tips, Video card does not have 3d accelerated hardware, No stretch support, No hardware overlay support, No Z buffering support, No hardware colour-space conversion and recommends that I upgrade my graphics card. £220 well spent there then.
I am running XP Pro with all updates and latest drivers for video.
Anyone got any ideas, apart from a Windows re-install?
I am running XP Pro with all updates and latest drivers for video.
Anyone got any ideas, apart from a Windows re-install?