Any idea whats going on here?
I was playing Sid Meiers Railroads, and one day the game exited and decided it didnt want to switch back to my default desktop resolution of 1600x1200. Ive had it happen rarely in the past with other stuff, and i just changed the rez back manually. Everything seemed fine untill i tried to load up Railroads, again... i started getting video errors. I assumed it was a bug with the game at first, but no one else was reporting it. Then i started getting it with other games, the latest being Star Wars: Empire at War. This time the errors go like this:
"Generic application error. Enable debug output for detailed information.
Switching to the reference rasterizer, a software device that implements the entire Direct3D feature set, but runs very slowly."
Then i get this:
"Warning: Nothing will be rendered. The reference rendering device was selected, but your computer only has a reduced-functionality reference device installed. Install the DirectX SDK to get the full reference device."
And finally:
"Could not reset the Direct3D device.
This application will now exit."
What's going on? Everything was working fine untill that first game dumped me out. The one game ive been able to get working was Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War, but that was only working in windowed mode. If i tried to use it in fullscreen mode, id get another slew of errors and it wouldnt start.
Im using an AMD FX51 with a Radeon 9800XT. Ive installed the latest ATI drivers (and run driver cleaner before installing) and tried reinstalling the games, nothing works.
Help, please?!
I was playing Sid Meiers Railroads, and one day the game exited and decided it didnt want to switch back to my default desktop resolution of 1600x1200. Ive had it happen rarely in the past with other stuff, and i just changed the rez back manually. Everything seemed fine untill i tried to load up Railroads, again... i started getting video errors. I assumed it was a bug with the game at first, but no one else was reporting it. Then i started getting it with other games, the latest being Star Wars: Empire at War. This time the errors go like this:
"Generic application error. Enable debug output for detailed information.
Switching to the reference rasterizer, a software device that implements the entire Direct3D feature set, but runs very slowly."
Then i get this:
"Warning: Nothing will be rendered. The reference rendering device was selected, but your computer only has a reduced-functionality reference device installed. Install the DirectX SDK to get the full reference device."
And finally:
"Could not reset the Direct3D device.
This application will now exit."
What's going on? Everything was working fine untill that first game dumped me out. The one game ive been able to get working was Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War, but that was only working in windowed mode. If i tried to use it in fullscreen mode, id get another slew of errors and it wouldnt start.
Im using an AMD FX51 with a Radeon 9800XT. Ive installed the latest ATI drivers (and run driver cleaner before installing) and tried reinstalling the games, nothing works.
Help, please?!
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