DirectDraw "not available"?

Not to insult your intelligence, but the Hardware Acceleration slider is set
to full, right? Wonder if some app or driver installed previously may have
turned it down.

Display Properties -> Settings tab -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot tab

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"Matt Ion" <soundy106@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Right... ran the remover, backleveled to 7.8... still no luck.
>
> I just love wasting my ****ing time over and over again with these ****ing
> broken drivers.

First of One wrote:
> Not to insult your intelligence, but the Hardware Acceleration slider is set
> to full, right? Wonder if some app or driver installed previously may have
> turned it down.
>
> Display Properties -> Settings tab -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot tab

No insult taken... acceleration slider is all the way to Full. Write
combining box is checked - maybe I should try without that?

Yep, try without write combining.

You can also try moving the Hardware Acceleration slider back one notch.

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"Matt Ion" <soundy106@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> First of One wrote:
>> Not to insult your intelligence, but the Hardware Acceleration slider is
>> set to full, right? Wonder if some app or driver installed previously may
>> have turned it down.
>>
>> Display Properties -> Settings tab -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot tab
>
> No insult taken... acceleration slider is all the way to Full. Write
> combining box is checked - maybe I should try without that?

First of One wrote:
> Yep, try without write combining.

Didn't help.

> You can also try moving the Hardware Acceleration slider back one notch.

Urgh... I'm gonna spend all day rebooting, one tweak at a time.

"Matt Ion" <soundy106@gmail.com> wrote in message news:KYm9j.12168$_r2.3840@pd7urf1no...
> First of One wrote:
> > Yep, try without write combining.
>
> Didn't help.
>
> > You can also try moving the Hardware Acceleration slider back one notch.
>
> Urgh... I'm gonna spend all day rebooting, one tweak at a time.

You're not tweaking. You're anti-tweaking. :-)

Dump the AMD/ATI disaster and go Intel/Nvidia. You'll thank
me later.

nospam@sbcglobal.invalid.net wrote:
> "Matt Ion" <soundy106@gmail.com> wrote in message news:KYm9j.12168$_r2.3840@pd7urf1no...
>> First of One wrote:
>>> Yep, try without write combining.
>> Didn't help.
>>
>>> You can also try moving the Hardware Acceleration slider back one notch.
>> Urgh... I'm gonna spend all day rebooting, one tweak at a time.
>
> You're not tweaking. You're anti-tweaking. :-)
>
> Dump the AMD/ATI disaster and go Intel/Nvidia. You'll thank
> me later.

Yeah, well, next spare couple hundred dollars I have for a replacement
card, that's the first thing I have in mind.

For now, it would be really nice to get this thing working properly, or
at least as properly as it used to be.

I guess in fairness, I can't blame AMD for this particular junker, since
it's pre-takeover.

"Matt Ion" <soundy106@gmail.com> wrote in message news:UIq9j.7052$hQ3.5099@pd7urf3no...
> nospam@sbcglobal.invalid.net wrote:
> > "Matt Ion" <soundy106@gmail.com> wrote in message news:KYm9j.12168$_r2.3840@pd7urf1no...
> >> First of One wrote:
> >>> Yep, try without write combining.
> >> Didn't help.
> >>
> >>> You can also try moving the Hardware Acceleration slider back one notch.
> >> Urgh... I'm gonna spend all day rebooting, one tweak at a time.
> >
> > You're not tweaking. You're anti-tweaking. :-)
> >
> > Dump the AMD/ATI disaster and go Intel/Nvidia. You'll thank
> > me later.
>
> Yeah, well, next spare couple hundred dollars I have for a replacement
> card, that's the first thing I have in mind.
>
> For now, it would be really nice to get this thing working properly, or
> at least as properly as it used to be.
>
> I guess in fairness, I can't blame AMD for this particular junker, since
> it's pre-takeover.

By chance have you recently installed any codec packs (such as
K-Lite)? These are notorious for causing video problems.

nospam@sbcglobal.invalid.net wrote:
> "Matt Ion" <soundy106@gmail.com> wrote in message news:UIq9j.7052$hQ3.5099@pd7urf3no...
>> nospam@sbcglobal.invalid.net wrote:
>>> "Matt Ion" <soundy106@gmail.com> wrote in message news:KYm9j.12168$_r2.3840@pd7urf1no...
>>>> First of One wrote:
>>>>> Yep, try without write combining.
>>>> Didn't help.
>>>>
>>>>> You can also try moving the Hardware Acceleration slider back one notch.
>>>> Urgh... I'm gonna spend all day rebooting, one tweak at a time.
>>> You're not tweaking. You're anti-tweaking. :-)
>>>
>>> Dump the AMD/ATI disaster and go Intel/Nvidia. You'll thank
>>> me later.
>> Yeah, well, next spare couple hundred dollars I have for a replacement
>> card, that's the first thing I have in mind.
>>
>> For now, it would be really nice to get this thing working properly, or
>> at least as properly as it used to be.
>>
>> I guess in fairness, I can't blame AMD for this particular junker, since
>> it's pre-takeover.
>
> By chance have you recently installed any codec packs (such as
> K-Lite)? These are notorious for causing video problems.

None that I recall, at least not recently. This error is a relatively
recent development (like, within the last three-four months or so, at
least since it became noticeable).

Are there any PARTICULAR codecs that are known to be problematic, that I
could check for?

First of One wrote:
> Not to insult your intelligence, but the Hardware Acceleration slider is set
> to full, right? Wonder if some app or driver installed previously may have
> turned it down.
>
> Display Properties -> Settings tab -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot tab
>
Listen man, do not blame ati if you ate inadept technologically,

on constructive side , uninstall your driver, go to safe mode , clean
ati friver either with guru3d driver sweeper or driver cleaner, reboot
then get this driver here:
http://radeon.ru/drivers/ATI_Catalyst_7.7_with_CP.exe
unpack it to temp directory, then right click on your driverless video
card , choose update driver and point it to directory, where driver was
placed, then say yes for unsigned driver installation and after it
installs, reboot
do not forget to disable ati smart service and hotkey service before you
reboot

latast ati drivers are crud for older hardware like yours , they seem to
break 3d dx functions, especially d3d

good luck

Matt Ion wrote:
> If ain't one thing it's another with this rig...
>
> So now I'm getting various different apps (most notably Nero ShowTime)
> reporting that "This application requires DirectDraw Acceleration, which
> is not available in your system."
>
> I have checked dxdiag, as the dialog suggests, and the DirectDraw
> Acceleration option is "Not Available", the Disable button greyed out.
> The "Test DirectDraw" button runs all the tests and returns: "DirectDraw
> test results: All tests were successful."
>
> I've run the ATI uninstaller and reinstalled the latest (7.11) Catalyst
> drivers, I've reinstalled the motherboard AGP drivers, I've reinstalled
> DirectX 9.0c, all to no avail.
>
> System specs:
> ASUS A8V-Deluxe
> 3GB RAM
> Athlon64 3000+
> Radeon 9800Pro All-in-Wonder
> XP Pro/SP2 (32-bit)
>
> NOW what???


This has happened to me and it was down to the mobo drivers. I note
you've reinstalled the AGP drivers but as its such a quick painless task
it couldn't hurt to reinstall all mobo drivers? Via 4 in 1?