DavidAndrew2008

Many thanks to both people who replied, I will try the Eradicator suggestion first and post the results next time I'm online

Also, it looks like my Windows XP has a corrupt registry, if that has anything to do with it. Prior to installing Windows XP on my new PC, I backed up the entire contents of my old HD and after installing XP I merged the whole lot into it. A foolish mistake I guess, because after that it started looking for my old PC's hardware. I've just read that a corrupt registry can cause Direct draw slowdown and DLL errors. I will see if a good registry cleaner resolves this.

Yeah, the sound was a bit of a problem at first until I finally traced the correct driver for it. In dxdiag I have run every test possible, everything passed

I'm not posting from home at the moment so I don't know the exact error message, but I do know (from memory) that some (not all) programs complain about a "DX8.dll" not being found, this is followed by "cannot initialize direct x". I have looked at all the dlls via dxdiag. DX8.dll does not seem to be there but at the same time the dxdiag itself finds no problems.

I have tried reinstalling Direct X, but there are no old versions of DX on it as I recently reinstalled Windows XP - the MS update automatically put DX9c on it first time round.

Hello, I'm having a lot of trouble with my graphics card since reinstalling Windows XP. It's an NVidia Gforce4 with 64mb. There are 2 problems: 1) Some games complain about not being able to initialize Direct X due to an "DX8" error. 2) OpenGL games run a lot slower on my PC despite working fine with my previous PC (which had half the power). I have toothcombed the help files and have done the obvious by installing the lastest versions of Direct X and the latest driver for Geforce4. I have also (as suggested) tried uninstalling them and reinstalling them.....nothing. Other things I've tried is disabling write combing and hardware acceleration....still nothing. I don't see me PC's specs being an issue because as stated above, all of my games worked at full speed on a lesser PC with a Geforce2. I really, reallly don't see why there is a problem because all of my games are way above the minimum reqirements, (I don't bother with recent games), and some of the games are old 2D games which even worked fine on an even older PC I had back in 2000. I also don't see why I'm getting an "DX8" error when my version of direct X is the final 9c version - the documents said that the latest versions are backwards compatible. The dxdiag has run all tests and reported no problems. :confused: