Direct X Error (8007000E)

[BRIK]

Please Help. When I try to run games through Mala Frontend (Version 1.05) a MS DOS box comes up and says;

'Warning: Device may not preform well for Direct 3D renderering
Unable to create the Direct 3D device (8007000E)
Unable to initialise Direct 3D
Unable to complete window creation.'


And then it just goes back to the main Mala Menu. I tried just running the games with MAME (version 0132) and the same message appears. I figured this was a Direct X problem so I went into the DirectX Diagnostic Tool. In the Display tab I ran the Direct 3D tests and it did version 7 and 8 alright but when it got to 9 a message came up which said 'Hardware accelerated Direct3D 9+ is not available because the display driver does not support it.  You may be able to get a newer driver from the hardware manufacturer.'
I tried just simply installing Direct X 9 but the same messages keep coming up. I've looked everywhere for drivers but I was unsuccessful.
The computer I'm using isn't that great but its only for games from the 80's, so you would presume it wouldn't need to be that good. The specs for computer are as follow;

IBM Corporation
Aptiva
Microsoft Windows 98 (4.10, Build 2222)
AuthenticAMD
AMD-K6(tm) 3D Processor,  MMX,  3D Now,  500MHz
120.0 MB of RAM
Direct X Version: Direct X 8.1 (4.08.0001.0881)

Thanks in advance.

[SGT]

Many applications today require DirectX 9 at a minimum.  Not trying to be a smartass, but I'm not sure what games from the 80s have to do with it.

Mala wasn't written in the 80s or 90s and most here are not actually running games from that era, but emulating them which requires more horse power.  Do you have another video card you can stick into it?  I am not sure you will find a Windows 98 driver that supports DirectX 9.

[BRIK]

afraid not. would older versions of mala and mame just run on direct x 8?

[Bobulus]

Did you change your mame.ini file at all? I've run MAME on non-directx9-capable computers before, so I don't think that's the problem.

[BRIK]

nah i haven't been anywhere near the mame.ini file at all

[Bobulus]

What graphic card are you running?

[dungbeetle46]

in mame.ini
under Windows Video Options
change
video           d3d

to

video           ddraw

should help

[BRIK]

cheers i'll give it a try

[BRIK]

it worked. thanks a lot dungbeetle46 you've made my day . I can finally get on with making my cabinet now as i didn't see a point until i had a working computer

[dungbeetle46]

great to hear, good luck with the cab

[BRIK]

thanks

[jcterzin]

i just wanna add that this totally helped me out with my problem too. Thanks alot guys.