3Dmark could not initialize your 3D Accelerator.

[boObYtRap]

"3Dmark could nit initialize your 3D Accelerator."
"Try to downgrade your display settings."

"DirectX Error Message:"
"FATAL ERROR: Failed to validate material"

It just quit 3Dmark and this pops up??!!
I ALWAYS get this when i use 3Dmark 2001 on ALL machines I've had, even in 2001 SE Pro??!! :|
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
everything is set to default settings!

 

[Jwyatt]

You might wanna tell what your system has!

 

[boObYtRap]

It's a:

P4 1.6A (not overclocked)
Asus P4B266 motherboard
Siluro GeForce3 Ti200
128Mb Samsung PC2700 333Mhz
Soundblaster 128
Maxtor 80Gb 7200 Rpm
Creative 52x CD-Rom

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Click on your start menu and go to RUN... type in dxdiag.exe
Click on the display tab
disable direct3d acceleration
exit and reboot your system
once you reach your desktop, run dxdiag.exe again
re-enable direct3d acceleration

should work...

 

[boObYtRap]

WOAH!!! THX LuDaCriS66 . That really helped

Damn.. I'm so lucky that I can start to cry

And WHY do I ask myself, WHY didn't i go to this forum before?!?!

I've had this problem since 3dmark2001 first came but i really never solved it hehe

this is really great.

and thx again

 

[LuDaCriS66]

np.. glad I could help. I've actually had to tell 20+ people on how to fix that problem... it's actually pretty common.