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Win2000 and WW2 Fighters
Greetings Gurus!
I am having a problem getting my installation of Jane's WW2 Fighter's to run properly under
Win2000. When I first installed it on Friday night it worked properly.
BUT, last night when I double clicked the "Fly Now" icon the program didn't start properly. It
seems to load, i.e., the program shows up on the task bar but after the full screen begins to
initialise, it just drops back down to being on the task bar!
So I opened the Task Manager (Ctl-Alt-Del) and under the Applications tab "Status" column it
says the program is running. Yet in order to get it on the screen again I have to highlight its Task
and click on the "Switch To" button. Then it runs OK.
Being brilliant, I then ran DX Diagnosis and under the Display tab, Test Direct3D button it gave
me the following error:
D3D Test Result: Failure at step 34 (BeginScene): HRESULT = 0x887601c2 (unknown error)
Can any of you gurus give me any idea of what is going wrong?
I have reinstalled my video driver for the Matrox G400 Dual Head, and I have even reinstalled
WW2 Fighters but I keep having exactly the same problems.
With what the Task Manager is telling me, i.e., that WW2 Fighters is running, what exactly does
that indicate when the game remains minimised to the Task Bar?
Any and all help is appreciated.
I am having a problem getting my installation of Jane's WW2 Fighter's to run properly under
Win2000. When I first installed it on Friday night it worked properly.
BUT, last night when I double clicked the "Fly Now" icon the program didn't start properly. It
seems to load, i.e., the program shows up on the task bar but after the full screen begins to
initialise, it just drops back down to being on the task bar!
So I opened the Task Manager (Ctl-Alt-Del) and under the Applications tab "Status" column it
says the program is running. Yet in order to get it on the screen again I have to highlight its Task
and click on the "Switch To" button. Then it runs OK.
Being brilliant, I then ran DX Diagnosis and under the Display tab, Test Direct3D button it gave
me the following error:
D3D Test Result: Failure at step 34 (BeginScene): HRESULT = 0x887601c2 (unknown error)
Can any of you gurus give me any idea of what is going wrong?
I have reinstalled my video driver for the Matrox G400 Dual Head, and I have even reinstalled
WW2 Fighters but I keep having exactly the same problems.
With what the Task Manager is telling me, i.e., that WW2 Fighters is running, what exactly does
that indicate when the game remains minimised to the Task Bar?
Any and all help is appreciated.