Driver help please

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ATI rage 128 pro card (hardware on the board?)

Friend of mine has this problem, wife installs
a new edutainment game, windows ME, 3 year
old dell computer, this warning pops up:

ddhelp has caused an error in gdi.exe

This also causes some level of crashing, or
freezing until he clicks "Okay" or whatever...

I use the above line in a google search and the
answer shows on the MS site to be a video driver
problem as being too old. So I tell him where
to go, ati.com to find the driver. First I have him
update DX to 9.0b, then install the driver, which
is completely incompatible. I mean it's quite
obvious which driver it would be, the hardware
info on what he's got came from his own device
manager ...

Was rage 128 pro integrated on motherboards
back then? Is there anything that can be done?
Is it my mistake combining the 2001 latest
driver with DX 9.0b?
 
AArDvarK said:
ATI rage 128 pro card (hardware on the board?)

Friend of mine has this problem, wife installs
a new edutainment game, windows ME, 3 year
old dell computer, this warning pops up:

ddhelp has caused an error in gdi.exe

This also causes some level of crashing, or
freezing until he clicks "Okay" or whatever...

I use the above line in a google search and the
answer shows on the MS site to be a video driver
problem as being too old. So I tell him where
to go, ati.com to find the driver. First I have him
update DX to 9.0b, then install the driver, which
is completely incompatible. I mean it's quite
obvious which driver it would be, the hardware
info on what he's got came from his own device
manager ...

Was rage 128 pro integrated on motherboards
back then? Is there anything that can be done?
Is it my mistake combining the 2001 latest
driver with DX 9.0b?
Click to expand...

http://www.ati.com/support/products...sME98driver&submit.x=17&submit.y=8&submit=GO!

"Recommended Driver - 4.13.7192
Posted October 22, 2001

This is a fully released and supported display driver, which supports
Windows ME, Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE. DirectX 8 and OpenGL support
are included."

Since it only supports DirectX 8 I'd try to stick to that - probably
DirectX 9 doesn't have any advantages in your case anyway. There are
some tools to 'uninstall' DirectX so you might get off without a re-install.

André
 
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