Hello,

Recently, I have installed the "America's Army" game and when I tried to play, it failed to start because of "Get Device Caps" failure.

I went through DirectX tests, successfully except for the second Direct3D test using hardware - accelerated DirectX 8 interfaces.

It failed to start and returned the following result: Failure at step 5 ( Get Device Caps: HRESULT= 0x8876086a 3D not available ). I wonder if there's a way to correct this.

Quake III , however, is running steadily and happily at low but very playable 33 fps - and the whole system has, otherwise, been exceptionaly stable and able ever since I replaced the hard drive and installed Norton SystemWorks.

I have an older MCT computer with Octek RHINO VAP 133-ACP MAINBOARD, (VIA 82C693A and 82C596B chipset, Socket 370 PPGA/FCPGA), Celeron 533MHz, 192MB RAM, Win98SE, Corel Office 2000, Norton SystemWorks2002, Gainward GeForce 2 MX 32MB graphic card, Maxtor D740X 20GB 7200rpm.

Big thanks to anyone who cares to help!

Boris

Re: Direct X - Direct 3D test failed

Hi Boris Grab the latest drivers for your GeForce from the manufactures website or even better try the Nvidia home page.

You are not alone on this one I have seen TNT games playing up

This is pulled from http://getstunned.com/index.html?main.html

1.Start dxdiag, and click on the "Display" tab (or "Display 1" in my case)

2.Where it says "Direct3D acceleration: Enabled" you will see a button marked "Disable". Click it.

3.Surprise surprise, a dialog box will pop up asking if you want to ENABLE your 3D acceleration. Of course you do. "Disable" button will be unchanged in dxdiag.

4.Press the Disable button again. This will really disable the 3D.

5.And then click it one more time (it reads "Enable" now). Congratulations, you're done!

Many people have reported it to have fixed there problems.

Gus Beard