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Hey guyss · Jun 30, 2008, 09:35 PM // 21:35

i need help i played GW alot and then i got a virus and then we had to delete everything of and then reinstall everything then i installed GW agian but this thing poped up with a link to GW site and said my disk drives was messed up or DirectX8 needs to b installed i installed all updates X8 X9 and even X10 help me plz agian it says unable to initilize 3D output

Snograt · Jun 30, 2008, 09:59 PM // 21:59

Is this only a problem with Guild Wars so far? Try other games and see if they run.

What version of Windows are you running? If XP, make sure you install SP3, if Vista, SP1.

moriz · Jun 30, 2008, 10:15 PM // 22:15

better question is: did you reinstall your graphic card (and chipset) drivers? you can't play without them.

Hey guyss · Jul 01, 2008, 12:31 AM // 00:31

umm i have no idea if it cost anything then no cuz im broke

and im runing on XP so ill make sure i install SP3 and i have no idea how to reinstall my grachic card or chipset driver things how do u?

moriz · Jul 01, 2008, 12:34 AM // 00:34

it won't cost you anything, just go search on google.

providing you know the graphic card and motherboard models, of course.

Hey guyss · Jul 01, 2008, 12:41 AM // 00:41

ok so i can google download graphic card and there will b a thread to download one and its that simple? cuz i dont want to screw up my computer

moriz · Jul 01, 2008, 12:48 AM // 00:48

well... no.

open dxdiag, take a screenshot of your "System" and "Display" tabs, and then post both screenshots here. without knowing your exact system specs, it will be impossible to find the right drivers for you.

if you don't know where to find dxdiag:
-in windows xp, click start->run, and type dxdiag, and click run
-in windows vista, click start, and type dxdiag into the search bar, and press enter

Hey guyss · Jul 01, 2008, 12:56 AM // 00:56

how do i veiw my ScreenShots :S

Lurid · Jul 01, 2008, 12:58 AM // 00:58

You're using a pre-built system are you not? If so, see if theres a disk that came with the computer. Chances are good you have a disk somewhere with the drivers on it. Yea they're a bit out of date, but it should suffice if it worked beforehand. If you can i'd suggest downloading new ones, but you'd first want to check and make sure you're missing them at all.

Right click "Computer" aka "My Computer", open the device manager, click the arrow next to "Display Adaptors", right click on whatever it gives you and click properties. Now click on the "Drivers" tab in that window, and type out exactly whatever driver provider / version it says.

Hey guyss · Jul 01, 2008, 01:03 AM // 01:03

i cant find the divce manager in the My Computer section....

moriz · Jul 01, 2008, 01:06 AM // 01:06

right click on your "my computer" icon, and click on properties. it should open up a window with a bunch of tabs. click through each tab until you find a button that's called "device manager", or something like that. click on the button and look under display adaptor.

Hey guyss · Jul 01, 2008, 01:12 AM // 01:12

its not on there.... i clicked on devise manager and didnt c the adaptor

Lurid · Jul 01, 2008, 01:17 AM // 01:17

You're missing the drivers then. Download this, it should tell you what GPU you're running. So that we can point you in the right direction driver wise.

Hey guyss · Jul 01, 2008, 01:20 AM // 01:20

i DL and it said unknown archeticture

moriz · Jul 01, 2008, 02:19 AM // 02:19

do you still know the model number of your computer? i'm assuming its a brand name pre assembled PC. look at the front panel of the PC and see if you can see a brand and model number, and post it here.

Hey guyss · Jul 01, 2008, 03:57 PM // 15:57

ok its dimension 4700 i think it is

moriz · Jul 01, 2008, 04:11 PM // 16:11

assuming that you haven't upgraded your graphics card and still uses winXP, here are the drivers you need:

chipset: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/down...ems&lang =eng

graphics: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/down...ems&la ng=eng

Hey guyss · Jul 01, 2008, 04:17 PM // 16:17

after downloading this Guild wars should work and should i restart my Computer after Downloading this stuff?

moriz · Jul 01, 2008, 04:18 PM // 16:18

you need to download and install them. install the chipset drivers first, then restart, then install the graphics drivers, and restart again.

if everything goes well, it should work.

Hey guyss · Jul 01, 2008, 04:36 PM // 16:36

yay!!!! thank u soooooo much for all ur help it workd now i can go back and play my chars agian i had full elite armor on my lvl 11 war and full ancient armor on my sin with hundreads of builds i built from scratch whats ur IGN (in game name)?