DirectX 9.0b Issues

[Jonathan White]

I recently did a complete motherboard upgrade including
processor and RAM. I am running an Athlon 3000+ 400 FSB,
1 GB RAM, nForce 2 controller, Geforce 4 TI 4800 card,
the best detonator drivers on it. After installing the
mobo I had to "repair windows XP" in order for it to
install new drivers for the new stuff. Well everything
went well and I can run certain games. But for some (GTA
3 and BF1942 in particular) minimize to the desktop upon
loading and will not restore themselves! I have been able
to get BF1942 to work with a resolution of 800x600
however, and installing a shadow copy of windows XP on my
other hard drive I could run GTA3 with Directx 8.1 (what
shipped with XP) Now my question is, can I some way
revert back to DirectX 8.1 or somehow reinstall 9.0b
without having to reinstall windows (I would lose a lot
of settings). I am willing to do any hacking and slicing
to get this done so don't be afraid to be technical
Thank you very much!

- Jon White

 

[Joe727]

Upgrade the motherboard chipset drivers.

Joe

 

[Grahammer]

I recently did a complete motherboard upgrade including
processor and RAM. I am running an Athlon 3000+ 400 FSB,
1 GB RAM, nForce 2 controller, Geforce 4 TI 4800 card,
the best detonator drivers on it. After installing the
mobo I had to "repair windows XP" in order for it to
install new drivers for the new stuff.

That's your problem.. You can't do a whole computer upgrade and expect the
installed XP to work.

Reinstall.

 

[John Dingley]

This is is not true. Repair installs have worked very well with no problems
at all on complete system changes for me. I know some have not been so lucky
though!

I'm sure you have thought of this, but since you didn't mention it, I will -
have you checked for a game update/patch?

 

[Jonathan White]

Yes the games are completing updated. I hate to
reinstall, but if I have to thats what I am going to
do.... Thanks for your help guys!