Dia on 13/2/2009 at 15:30
Which means I can't play my Thief games. The main partition is XP64 and won't play T2 due to this error:
'ERROR: Direct3d device driver does not accurately report texture memory usage.
Contact your 3d accelerator vendor for updated drivers.'
Would that be Nvidia (since that's what's listed under my hardware for Display Adaptors)? (It's 'Nvidia GeForce 6200, if that makes any difference.)
The problem with my Windows ME partition started when I was playing a T2 FM ('Yume No Rozen' not that that probably has anything to do with anything). I had just saved when the screen went blank; I couldn't ctrl-alt-del out of it. Now when I'm booting my PC & select Windows ME OS, all I get is a blank screen (the same color chosen on Display theme). Nothing else. I can't even get the taskbar up.
I can't access ME from any mode, 'safe' or otherwise in order to do a system recovery or use the ME disk to repair whatever went wrong. When I open WinExplorer I see that everything is still there on the ME OS and I can access ME stuff from the Explorer. But I can't play T2 that way (nor do I want to because with my luck that would probably muck-up my PC in a whole new different way!).
I'm really hesitant to continue to try to play T2 on my XP64 OS for fear that the same thing will happen on that partition. Which is why I'd really like to get my ME OS back up & running. I know that when I right-click on ME in the 'My Computer' screen it gives me the option to format (I'd just done an ME backup to my portable HD, but am concerned that whatever screwed ME up is also in the backup files). Since I'm seriously PC-tech-challenged, I'm afraid to format ME from the 'right-click' method for fear that it might affect XP64 OS as well.
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated at this point.
Thanks.
(And thanks in advance for not laughing at my obvious ignorance.)
Dia on 15/2/2009 at 15:18
Well; the fix in the link above worked as far as the fact that I'm now able to play T2 (& FMs) on my XP64 drive; but Win ME still shows a blank screen the color of the desktop display background after the initial startup screen. :(
Thanks for the reference & help voodoo. I've logged my ME/XP64 problem on a couple of 'serious-guy' PC tech forums and hopefully someone there will know the answer to my partitioned HD problem.
At least I can now play FMs on XP64 while I'm waiting for an answer; and THAT eases my frustration considerably!
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