Failed To Set Video Mode

[Xeroxt4]

Played CS:S for over 6 month now, but now it ****s me about that it cant detect no direct x... PLZ HELP... I only did one thing which ceised it from working I installed a game called Rayman 2 and now it does not work at all.... says that I need a DIrect X 6.0 or something compatible graphics card... PLZ HELP!!!

All my other games seem to be working but I did not test them all out yet... PLZ help! What can I reinstall? (DO NOT SAY THE DRIVERS DID THAT ALREADY) What may I delete so it would see that I have a DX8.0 graphic card??!?!!

Definatly something has installed that is blocking it from seeing that I have a GFX 5200.. or something modified something installed ceising HL2 engine based games to detect a compatible video mode....

PLZ HELP!!!!!!!!1!!! ;(

PS: M'KAY

 

[joule]

I can not help you with your video card issue, but I can help you with something else...

;(

 

[giant384]

i dont think u can play old games like that on a dx9 card ive already tried to play motocross madness on my fx5700le and it wont run

 

[Xeroxt4]

What game are you talking about?
PS: GF5200 is DX9, weird my copy of HL2 is detecting DX8...

 

[^Ben]

Either get a profile editor like saweetnesstrev said (nHancer, YAPE, etc), or manually delete the settings associted with hl2.exe in your registry. Go into your registry under this key:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{F5857C38-087A-4CD1-98DD-D4DF85D1A681}\0000


The GUID on yours will be different, but generally it's the furthest one down the list. The 0000 is likely the same (first adapter under that id).

Now delete any entries starting with:

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_hl2.exe:


Even though entries will appear in your NVIDIA panel, the values associated with them are gone and you can either forget about it or set defaults or redo your profile.

That's it! HL2/CSS works again!

Or

Download a program name nHancer and delete the halflife2 profile.. IT WORKS!!

smile.gif its the freaking profile thats crashing it!!

 

[giant384]

What game are you talking about?
PS: GF5200 is DX9, weird my copy of HL2 is detecting DX8...

the FX series cards are to slow to run dx9

 

[SimonomiS]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=45945

Deleting the profile in nHancer worked for me.

 

[Slider6977]

I am having a very similar problem. I have finally purchased Half-life 2 and when I try to launch the game, I get the same windows poping up. I can not get past the Valve intro screen. Right after that I get the two consecutive windows that Xeroxt refered to.

My questions are this:

1. Firstly, I do not understand what Ben is referring to with the first part of his post. Can anyone explain more specifically where I need to go to perform the functions he mentions.

2. I have a Geforce4 MX graphics card. Is this card compatable with the game? I assumed it was a directx 7 compatable card, just want to make sure I am correct, or will my graphics card be a problem?

Thanks to any reply.

 

[lister]

try and install DX 9c again, it appears wen u installed that Raymon game u have most likely install DX6 along with it.

 

[Xeroxt4]

I found a cure - get the old 71.xx NVIDIA drivers and whola the problem is gone...:E