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date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:46:16 -0500,    group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.games        back       


Games aren't working   
Whenever I try to open Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds it just says
"Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card
and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"

Okay, I got that fixed. But now there's a different problem. All the
graphics look like it's night time. Very messed up.

I'm running Windows Vista, 64 bit, in a laptop with an Intel X3100
graphics card.


-- 
Sarthos
date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:46:16 -0500   author:   Sarthos

Re: Games aren't working   
Sarthos wrote:
> Whenever I try to open Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds it just says
> "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card
> and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"
> 
> Okay, I got that fixed. But now there's a different problem. All the
> graphics look like it's night time. Very messed up.
> 
> I'm running Windows Vista, 64 bit, in a laptop with an Intel X3100
> graphics card.
> 
> 
That sounds like on-board shared graphics, not a dedicated Video card?

You are basically screwed as far as high end games on such a rig.  Post 
your full specs and RAM.  Can you dedicate more RAM to the Graphics 
chipset?  Some MoBo's allow that.
If you only have 1 Gb RAM get another Gb installed.
You can also look at installing latest DX9, it goes in quite OK with the 
Vista DX10.
Try running the games in WinXP Compatibility mode (right click the Games 
Icon and select Properties and then play around with settings under the 
COMPATIBILITY Tab

Frenchy
date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:17:47 +1200   author:   Frenchy

Re: Games aren't working   
Sarthos  wrote in 
news:03bc829c7ed95097e2136750b0ce4a54@nntp-gateway.com:

> 
> Whenever I try to open Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds it just says
> "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card
> and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"
> 
> Okay, I got that fixed. But now there's a different problem. All the
> graphics look like it's night time. Very messed up.
> 
> I'm running Windows Vista, 64 bit, in a laptop with an Intel X3100
> graphics card.
> 
> 

http://www.microsoft.com/directx

follow the links for gamers, and get the latest version of DirectX. You 
should end up with a dxwebsetup.exe file, run that, then try SW again.

-- 
-A.
date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:41:33 -0700   author:   Andy [YaYa]

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