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Title: Problems with Direct3d
Post by: rerstad on February 17, 2005, 10:04:12 pm

I can run games with direct3d turned on when starting from a horizontal orientation on my cocktail cab, but if I have it on when starting games from a vertical orientation I get this error and the games fail to launch "Error creating Direct3d7 device: 8007000e, unable to start video emulation".  Any ideas to work around this?  Without it on, I'm having real problems getting some games to display full screen.

Title: Re: Problems with Direct3d
Post by: elvis on February 18, 2005, 02:31:35 am

What are you using to rotate your display?  Just the normal video card drivers from Windows?  If so, that's your problem.

Title: Re: Problems with Direct3d
Post by: rerstad on February 18, 2005, 06:58:22 am

Yes, I get the error when using the built-in video driver.  When I use the video card (which doesn't support hardware rotation at 640x480) then I don't' get the error, but I get a screen that's very wide and skinny  top-to-bottom when using d3d (together with ALOT of frameskipping).  Not sure what would resolve those problems.

Title: Re: Problems with Direct3d
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 19, 2005, 10:41:38 pm

he already told you the solution....

download drivers from your card's official website rather than third-party drivers or drivers from windows.