Direct3D not initializing, what to do?

[Cleverone]

     Ok had an issue with tab key not working so had to delete the cfg and ini folders, I got them back but now 1. my x-arcade is not working in mame and when I click on a game in windows mame it says "cannot initialize Direct 3D" any ideas to fix these problems?

[abispac]

on mame.ini chnge video option d3d to ddraw....

[quadrider1]

this happened to me when i used mame.108 and d3d 9, i had to use d3d 8 or lower to get that error to go away

[Cleverone]

This never happened before, but since I had to delete my cfg file and ini file to get my defaults, this window pops up before loading a game, wonder what had happen, I just wanted my "tab" key to work again, lol. Thanks

[Cleverone]

Ya it sucks when I click on the game and here a "ding" and the window pops up. So if I change the d3d lower it wont even launch the game. Any ideas to make this window go away? What is direct3D anyway? thanks!

[abispac]

Ya it sucks when I click on the game and here a "ding" and the window pops up. So if I change the d3d lower it wont even launch the game. Any ideas to make this window go away? What is direct3D anyway? thanks!

did u tried direct draw ( ddraw) instead of d3d?

[Cleverone]

Ya it sucks when I click on the game and here a "ding" and the window pops up. So if I change the d3d lower it wont even launch the game. Any ideas to make this window go away? What is direct3D anyway? thanks!

did u tried direct draw ( ddraw) instead of d3d?

Yes I use ddraw now but picture quality and sound quality is not as good as d3d. checked my device manager and ran tests on my direct 3d direct x and it all tested good. Really like to go back to d3d though.

[ragnar]

What 3D card are you using?  Voodoo cards are problematic.