Help installing PJ64

[nala310]

Hi,
I just got my computer and I been trying to re-install PJ64 and I have no luck. I've tried using both Rice and Glide and neither work.
I have an AMD Athalon XP 2500+ Barton
512 MB memory
NVidia GeForce 5600 256 MB

When I use Rice it comes up
No hardware accelerated Direct 3D devices were found. Switching to the reference rasterize, a software the implements the entire Direct3D feature set, but runs slowly.

When I try Glide I get (in Spanish?)
no se puede alojar el buffer trasero
I hit OK and then
error setting Display mode

It just keeps looping
Help please?

[RJARRRPCGP]

Looks like your video card driver failed to initialize or initialize properly.

You're required to reformat the HDD and reinstall Windows, for a fresh Windows installation if the following is true:

You didn't install the AGP driver before the video card drivers.

Make sure next time when you reinstall Windows, the AGP driver and DirectX 9 and installed BEFORE the video card drivers.

[Trotterwatch]

FFS stop advising people to reinstall Windows at the first sign of a problem.... getting sick to death of it.

nala310, try reinstalling graphics card drivers, directx and the motherboard AGP chipset drivers. Contrary to what some people insist, reformatting is never the first option needed.

Also check:

Start>Run>Dxdiag
Display tab

Then check to see D3D acceleration is set to activated, if it isn't then try enabling it to see if it works (if it already says enabled try running the test to see what it reports).

[RJARRRPCGP]

FFS stop advising people to reinstall Windows at the first sign of a problem.... getting sick to death of it.

nala310, try reinstalling graphics card drivers, directx and the motherboard AGP chipset drivers. Contrary to what some people insist, reformatting is never the first option needed.

Oh, I'm sorry about that.

Sometimes, even when you just reinstall the drivers, it still won't work properly, probably because of traces in the registry.

Also, sometimes, Windows won't even allow access to files that are required to be replaced because of being corrupted, that's why I suggested a fresh Windows installation.

What I was talking about is true if you're changing video cards. The above may also be true if you didn't install the AGP driver BEFORE the video card drivers and DirectX 9 BEFORE the video card drivers.

Not reinstalling Windows from scratch may also cause lock ups, if you didn't install the drivers in this order:

1. AGP driver

2. DirectX 9

3. Video card drivers

[Trotterwatch]

Whilst that may well be the ultimate solution, it isn't the first step - it's the type of solution tech support may well give out at Compaq etc, we like to try and go that extra mile ;)

[Chris_W]

we like to try and go that extra mile ;)

On a Tandem at that ;)

Peedle Helping Power!

[loopsider]

i fixed it...i dont blame anybody for not replying though-it was my mistake to reply to a post with such a bad title(its one of those that a person would just look over)