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Installing Nancy Drew Games

Started by dmeetrisho , Dec 29 2003 01:03 AM

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dmeetrisho

Posted 29 December 2003 - 01:03 AM

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I was trying to install the game, and it did,except thtat everytime I click on it to come up so I can play, these words come up: InitDIrectDraw().pSPrimaryCreateSurface()-Unable to create a DirectDraw Surface. Game is shutting down-DDERR_NODIRECTDRAWHW-a hardware only DirectDraw object creation was attempted but the driver did not support any hardware. I don't know what to do, can you help me be able to play the game?

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Posted 29 December 2003 - 02:04 AM

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Look around in the game settings and see if you can find a checkbox for "enable hardware acceleration". If so, be sure it's checked.

Also, make sure you have the latest version of DirectX, and the latest driver installed for your video card.