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Direct Draw

My mom installed some unknown software then uninstalled it. Now when she tried to play Diablo II, she gets a Direct Draw error and can't play the game. she runs on Win98SE.

Anyone know how to fix this kind of issue?
Reinstall video drivers? D2? Win98SE?

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Wakeup

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Wakeup

If not then possibly Win 98SE needs reinstallation

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gmichels

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Thanks. I'll try that order.

gmichels

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I have reason to think it's her video card. I have a fuzzy recall trying to play Diablo II on a machine with that same video card and seeing the same message.

"Error 22: A critical error has occurred while initializing Direct Draw".

The card is a TNT2 Riva M64 (sound right? coming off memory)
I used the latest Detonator drivers but still got this error. I took out the card and used a VooDoo 3 and it worked fine.

Any insights?

gmichels

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I just found out she also has Webshots. Might that take Direct Draw resources to cause this error?

Digiplaya

gmichels, I know your problem's already or near to being fixed, but just to let you know Webshots does not really take that much resources, regardless of the computer it's on, so it appears you're right: your video card must have been the culprit.

Thnx for hearing me out and good luck with computers and whatnot.

Digiplaya

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