Goober

well I had the problem of no d3d acceleration after netmeeting crashed. Turns out if netmeeting doesn't shut down properly then d3d stays disabled. I didn't notice it for about two weeks when I tried to run some benchmarks. then I started to notice that the icons were not looking correctly and none of my other games would run either. Found out about it on MS knowledge database. Solution just restart netmeeting and close it down normally. This might not have been your problem necessarily but it sure does sound familiar.

did you use netmeeting at all before these problems of no d3d working?

thank-you for your reply but the above article from Microsoft knowledge base fixed it. Who knew that netmeeting disables d3d acceleration ;(

I want to thank all those that have posted to my reply and confusion on how something like this could happen. The netmeeting circumstance that you describe did not apply to me but it did click something in my head. A couple of weeks back my brother and I tried to netmeet and it froze and crashed. well didn't think much of it(love w2k programs may die but they don't take out the os like in 98) but started to investigate it after you brought up the remote sharing and guess what I found. I actually started to laugh pretty good about it. http://support.mi crosoft.com/support/kb...RCH&SPR=NMT [This message has been edited by Goober (edited 21 November 2000).] [This message has been edited by Goober (edited 21 November 2000).]

thank-you for reading and responding but as I posted before "The dx8 I used were the official from Microsoft and the creative drivers to my best knowledge were not beta as well." I have double checked and the drivers from creative do not say beta anywhere on them.

?? what beta drivers. The dx8 I used were the official from Microsoft and the creative drivers to my best knowledge were not beta as well.

Abit Kt7-raid with athlon 900mhz. I hadn't had any problem with dx7 and the previous creative drivers but when I did the uninstall of the old drivers with the install of dx8 and the new drivers I had no acceleration anymore. Its been quite interesting back tracking all the steps and trying to find that wrong turn but to no avail so far

I have installed windows 2000 with creative's geforce2 vid card. I have recently installed dx8, creative's w2k dirvers_634(build) with their updated blastor control. The diagnostic panel says that Directdraw and direct3d are not accelerated. Games detect no 3d accelerated card in my system now. 2d is working fine and I wouldn't really have noticed until I tried to launch any 3d related software. OpenGL seems to be unaffected(as far as wintune tests are concern). Any help would be much appreciated and thanks in advance for any new direction on this. [This message has been edited by Goober (edited 19 November 2000).]

http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon-duron/amd_win2k_patch.html give this a shot :-) good luck