RE: Problem with Halo and Direct3d

I have the same problem with my Alien Ware lap top. It run's Half life 2 no
problem. With halo it give's me check dxdiag. I have the latest direct x 9.
What do I do?

"John Doe via WindowsKB.com" wrote:

> When i run Halo, it tries to start but crashes, and gives me some blah blah
> message about some direct3d issue and maybe hardware acceleration is
> disabled. BUT its not i checked and i ran all DXDIAG tests and passed.
> Weird thing is, the game runs in safemode... these are my PC specs btw: 2.6
> ghz p4 w/HT, 512 ram, 256mb ATI 9550 graphics card. I recently upgraded to
> the ATI 9550 from the Geforce 4 mx 440 64mb thingy, and the game ran fine
> on that... any tips?
>
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