3D Output

Hey guyss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

A/E

i need help i played GW alot and then i got a virus and then we had to delete everything of and then reinstall everything then i installed GW agian but this thing poped up with a link to GW site and said my disk drives was messed up or DirectX8 needs to b installed i installed all updates X8 X9 and even X10 help me plz agian it says unable to initilize 3D output

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

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Is this only a problem with Guild Wars so far? Try other games and see if they run.

What version of Windows are you running? If XP, make sure you install SP3, if Vista, SP1.

moriz

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

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better question is: did you reinstall your graphic card (and chipset) drivers? you can't play without them.

Hey guyss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

A/E

umm i have no idea if it cost anything then no cuz im broke
and im runing on XP so ill make sure i install SP3 and i have no idea how to reinstall my grachic card or chipset driver things how do u?

moriz

moriz

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Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

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it won't cost you anything, just go search on google.

providing you know the graphic card and motherboard models, of course.

Hey guyss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

A/E

ok so i can google download graphic card and there will b a thread to download one and its that simple? cuz i dont want to screw up my computer

moriz

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

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well... no.

open dxdiag, take a screenshot of your "System" and "Display" tabs, and then post both screenshots here. without knowing your exact system specs, it will be impossible to find the right drivers for you.

if you don't know where to find dxdiag:
-in windows xp, click start->run, and type dxdiag, and click run
-in windows vista, click start, and type dxdiag into the search bar, and press enter

Hey guyss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

A/E

how do i veiw my ScreenShots :S

Lurid

Lurid

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/

You're using a pre-built system are you not? If so, see if theres a disk that came with the computer. Chances are good you have a disk somewhere with the drivers on it. Yea they're a bit out of date, but it should suffice if it worked beforehand. If you can i'd suggest downloading new ones, but you'd first want to check and make sure you're missing them at all.

Right click "Computer" aka "My Computer", open the device manager, click the arrow next to "Display Adaptors", right click on whatever it gives you and click properties. Now click on the "Drivers" tab in that window, and type out exactly whatever driver provider / version it says.

Hey guyss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

A/E

i cant find the divce manager in the My Computer section....

moriz

moriz

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Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

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right click on your "my computer" icon, and click on properties. it should open up a window with a bunch of tabs. click through each tab until you find a button that's called "device manager", or something like that. click on the button and look under display adaptor.

Hey guyss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

A/E

its not on there.... i clicked on devise manager and didnt c the adaptor

Lurid

Lurid

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/

You're missing the drivers then. Download this, it should tell you what GPU you're running. So that we can point you in the right direction driver wise.

Hey guyss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

A/E

i DL and it said unknown archeticture

moriz

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

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do you still know the model number of your computer? i'm assuming its a brand name pre assembled PC. look at the front panel of the PC and see if you can see a brand and model number, and post it here.

Hey guyss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

A/E

ok its dimension 4700 i think it is

moriz

moriz

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Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

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assuming that you haven't upgraded your graphics card and still uses winXP, here are the drivers you need:

chipset: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/down...ems&lang =eng

graphics: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/down...ems&la ng=eng

Hey guyss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

A/E

after downloading this Guild wars should work and should i restart my Computer after Downloading this stuff?

moriz

moriz

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Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

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you need to download and install them. install the chipset drivers first, then restart, then install the graphics drivers, and restart again.

if everything goes well, it should work.

Hey guyss

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

A/E

yay!!!! thank u soooooo much for all ur help it workd now i can go back and play my chars agian i had full elite armor on my lvl 11 war and full ancient armor on my sin with hundreads of builds i built from scratch whats ur IGN (in game name)?

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

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Assuming you mean moriz, it's under his avatar there.

Everything working ok then?