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CRITICAL ERROR - NEED HELP
Hi,
Well I don't exactly know what happened but something happened while my brother was playing a game on my computer. The game is Championship Manager but I also have the same problem playing Rune.
Basically the game appears to be up and running normally but I don't get any image on screen. The screen is black but when i press Ctrl-Alt-Del it doesn't show a 'not-responding' message so it seems that as far as the comp is concerned the game is playing but i can't see anything.
It gave me the following message. I apologise in advance for the lebght of the message but it's where the problem is. It says
Critical Error:
DirectDraw Flip Failed:DDERR_SURFACELOST
History: Unlock DirectDraw <-Windows Viewport:Unlock <- UGameEngine::Draw <- UWindows Viewport::Repaint <-UWindows Client:Tick <- ClientTick <- UGameEngine::Tick <- Updateworld <- MainLoop.
That's the message i got. I uninstalled twice and reinstalled twice but still the same message. I choose the option of Installing DirectX from the game CD but still no joy.
I must have some sort of corrupted file somewhere but don't know how to fix the problem. Mabye it's a toughy or something simple but i'm lost.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.
Des
XPS T500
N0TYA
64mb Ram
Win98 se
etc etc etc
Well I don't exactly know what happened but something happened while my brother was playing a game on my computer. The game is Championship Manager but I also have the same problem playing Rune.
Basically the game appears to be up and running normally but I don't get any image on screen. The screen is black but when i press Ctrl-Alt-Del it doesn't show a 'not-responding' message so it seems that as far as the comp is concerned the game is playing but i can't see anything.
It gave me the following message. I apologise in advance for the lebght of the message but it's where the problem is. It says
Critical Error:
DirectDraw Flip Failed:DDERR_SURFACELOST
History: Unlock DirectDraw <-Windows Viewport:Unlock <- UGameEngine::Draw <- UWindows Viewport::Repaint <-UWindows Client:Tick <- ClientTick <- UGameEngine::Tick <- Updateworld <- MainLoop.
That's the message i got. I uninstalled twice and reinstalled twice but still the same message. I choose the option of Installing DirectX from the game CD but still no joy.
I must have some sort of corrupted file somewhere but don't know how to fix the problem. Mabye it's a toughy or something simple but i'm lost.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.
Des
XPS T500
N0TYA
64mb Ram
Win98 se
etc etc etc
- Hi Ralph
I actually did doenload and install DirectX 8.0 a few weeks ago(mabye 3) and things were working fine until this. I read somewhere that Directx 8.0 doesn't actually improve gaming for machines running Win98 and there is no improvement in performance. It's a huge download and I'm not sure if i want to go through that again but if it's the only solution.........
Still I'll keep trying to find out more about it. I just posted the orignal post in the Video forum to see if anyone there knows something. Thanks anyway.
Des - Ireland.
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Posted March 11th, 2001 21:00
Ralph Caddell