"Could not write value" when starting some games

[AlbertoCastillo2001 0]

Hi, first thank you for paying attention to my problem..

I have an AMD Athlon XP 2200 with 768 RAM and a GeForce 4 MX and lately.. since July or so, since I installed DirectX9C, I get an error in some games like:

Lord of the Rings, Zsnes emulator, Worms3D, UT2004, Lineage II which says "Could not write value."

When I start one of these games, a window pops and says "Could not write value", and in games like Worms 3D it pops over and over.. until having 63 or more window messages like that.

I reformatted many times and I have no idea, I have Windows XP Home Edition activated, with SP2 and its updates, and still appears, I find this something weird and annoying...

I formatted like 3 or 4 times and it still appears.

I'm using the latest drivers of my computer.

 

Thank you.

[Wilhelmus 1]

Is your account administrator?

You probably need sufficient privileges to run the games.

Make sure that the account of your has administrative rights on the machine.

 

Click Start->Run and execute, without quotes: "control userpasswords2"

OK.

Doubleclick your account. Then goto second tab "group" or something like that. Select "Other" and select "Administrators" from the list.

 

[AlbertoCastillo2001 0]

I am administrator already, I always was one, still, it doesn't work, it's weird that it happens only with DirectX9C..

[Wilhelmus 1]

Have you tried the DirectX Diagnostic Tool?

Start->Run: dxdiag.exe

 

See if it reports any errors.

 

Then goto to display tab and click all "Enable" buttons, if there is any. Then try to test DirectDraw & Direct3D. If those fail, try reinstalling DirectX & display drivers.

[Wilhelmus 1]

And one thing you can try: start registry editor, start->run: regedit.exe

 

Then right-click on every HKEY_* key, e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and select "Permissions" or whatever it is called in your XP, its below Export item.

Make sure that Administrators and SYSTEM have write&read rights on every root key.

[AlbertoCastillo2001 0]

I tested everything, in DxDiag all are enabled and there are no errors (the computer is fresh installed)

And the registry is right too, except in HKey_Current_Config rights I have some weird account called: Unknown account (S-1-5-32-547) and is set on "read"

 

Thanks.

[AlbertoCastillo2001 0]

I have tried to look on Internet and I only find stuff related about this error when installing stuff, like InstallShield, but not my kind of error, I really wonder if this is normal, those games are fully compatible with SP2 and DX9C, I can't understand this, it even happens after formatting computer and installing SP2 :S

 

 

[Sampson 0]

What set of Nvidia drivers are you using? Your card is older and I have found that going back to an earlier version of Nvidia drivers sometimes corrects the difficulty.

[AlbertoCastillo2001 0]

71.84, yes, I know that, but my problem doesn't come about that, in fact, I was able to fix it today, I did a reformat, then installed drivers one by one and as I was installing one, I was checking one of the games which gave problems, and bingo, seems the problem came from a Super Nintendo game pad I have connected to my computer, and I'm using a driver which is not certified by Microsoft, the driver is called PSX Pad and it allows to use Super Nintendo, PSX and other pads into your computer.

So I installed it and it gave the error on the startup of a game, when I uninstalled it, the error didn't pop-up anymore.

This was hard hehe.

Thank you all.

[AlbertoCastillo2001 0]

In fact, I suppose it was a problem from the installer it came with it, maybe the driver itself doesn't have a problem, but still I know it was that.

[Wilhelmus 1]

Well, at least you got it sorted out.

Happy gaming.

[AlbertoCastillo2001 0]

Heh yea, but it was hard, who would suspect of the Super Nintendo pad driver anyway?