Need DirectX 9.0c help

[Franciscus]

Yippee! AACW is back up and running on the Laptop.

Good news
But does that mean that you are able to run AACW with a 32 mb graphic card ?? Amazing !

About your problem, I bet the cause was either a defective ATI graphics card or else defective drivers (as a side note, whenever you install a new graphic card driver, you should thourougly uninstall the previous driver, using a utilty like Driver Sweeper)

[Pocus]

Different programs have different "date stamped" releases of DirectX v9.0c, some of which I think are flawed (or seem to be so from personal experience). By reverting back to a known release that I personally verified to have worked before, I eliminate the possibility of a "flawed" installation. There is no way to uninstall a flawed DirectX installation, without uninstalling/reinstalling WindowsXP itself, so I will stick to a release that I personally know "worked" and let Windows Update take care of any minor updating changes, which by the way, there is at least one... I just installed it about 5 minutes ago.

Yippee! AACW is back up and running on the Laptop.

I'm happy too for you, up and running, that's great

[Gray_Lensman]

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[ohms_law]

ah, the good old "trash 80". Man, i loved that thing!
I remember a friend and I learned assembler for it, and wrote ourselves a "global thermonuclear war" game (all text based). Think WOPR...
That was fun!

[Gray_Lensman]

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[Franciscus]

Well, in doubt, never forget the old saying: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
But you should know it better than me...

[Gray_Lensman]

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[phantomfeather]

I think the "red" AGEod screen is probably new with the latest v1.14 beta patch work, which is what I have installed on the laptop that's giving me all the problems. Pocus updates items like that and submits it to me for inclusion in new beta patches.

Hey Gray! I get that same screen ONLY when I open it through Administrator which is "open file location" & "run as administrator" (right click on my desktop logo). ompom: I've though it might be the original opening logo for the game from the cd. Possibly could be that the patches have redone the opening segment.