DirectX Problem

dangfx

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Hey All,

I wasn't sure where to post this -- hope this is the right forum. Anyway, I seem to be having a problem with my dual displays and DirectX 9.0c.

All was fine. I was playing my game (Serious Sam 2) fine for weeks. Then, all of a sudden, I got this error, saying "Fatal error, cannot set display mode":
SamError.jpg


I updated my video drivers (7800GTX) as well as DirectX. After some looking around online, I see that it was indeed a directX problem. I looked at dxdiag. Here's what I found:

For my Primary (left) screen:
display1.jpg


And for my Secondary (right) screen:
display2.jpg


It seems as though DirectX is not fully functional on my primary monitor -- all of a sudden. Those buttons are greyed out for some reason.

How do I get full DirectX functionality back? I tried reinstalling directx, and it didnt work. :(
 
Maybe go into display properties and disable the secondary monitor, and see if anything changes?
 
got it working. oddly enough, hardware acceleration was turned down for one of my monitors for some reason. when i put it back on full, i got my full directx capabilities back. :)

weird
 
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