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Laflin:
I've been running EAW on XP Pro and DX9 with no problems...  

zaniwhoop2:
Try sytem restore to pre DX9 (if possible)
Uninstall drivers
Reboot
Install DX9
Reboot
Install Drivers

That might work. I have had device failures on my video card before (never the Radeon 9700 though, only the Kyro 2), but only with UT2K3. Whenever I got a device failure, it was after I had to restart the computer after it locked up. I don't have SFC3, but SFC2 works just fine.  

BuckStrider:

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I don't understand...Does the game just crash and you end up back at your desktop?...Do you play for a bit,then it crashes?

My game crashes as well in single player (says that I have an EAX problem...I REALLY dont think I have a  problem)

Sometimes I crash fast..Other times it takes an hour or so.

In any event..Who knows?...Well...I do know 1 group of people that know  


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Buck,
Are you using any soundblaster equipment on your system? If so, then check out the Soundblaster EAX page.. they may have a solution to your problem...

http://www.soundblaster.com/eax/

 


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Ummm...SB Audigy is NOT the prob bud...

Dash Jones:

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yeah, mine does goto a 600x480 screen with 4 colours, and the only way i can sort it out is to restart my pc

and my drivers should be upto date  


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It sounds almost as if you are being forced inot running some sort of safe mode...

Are you using an LCD monitor by any chance.  I've heard of a similar problem on some of those but no solutions yet.  I don't know what's causing it.

Also, if you aren't getting any correlation between the catalyst 3.0 drivers, and the computer games and devices, that could definately be a serious problem, but in that case I'd expect games like JK2 (which require OpenGL) to cease completely.  Perhaps a glitch in someway that they are being handled?  Check the various forums for ATI to see if there are any others wh mya have similar problems as you.

USSDelta:
i have got an LCD moniter, but i can run SFC 2 Orion Pirates, i have got another pc that it works on but i'd rather play it on this one

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