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Forum overview » Games » Problems with Oblivion and now Call of Duty 2 (1/1)

Problems with Oblivion and now Call of Duty 2

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jelboy
Junior Member

Posts: 2
Joined: 2006-07-23
Member No.: 82622

2006-07-23 11:22:49

Hi all

I have a problem with Oblivion - it would run even tho my rig is well capable.. it keeps stalling on single frames. I updated everytinhg - drivers, patches etc but to no avail then discovered a fault with call of duty 2 which reported this error

Direct3DDevice9 Present failed Driver internal error

What on earth does that mean? Has my Direct X broken? If so how do I uninstall it? Or is it my card? It's only 2 months old X1800XT...

Any help would be great

Thanks

Jelboy

Post #174191

tool_462
Senior Member

Posts: 200
Joined: 2004-11-22
Member No.: 48532

2006-07-23 18:22:37

Have you tried using an older driver for your video card? Sometimes updating to a new driver will cause problems, just happened to me with the new Forceware 91.13 drivers from Nvidia. Kept causing BSOD and I reverted to the older ones and everything is great! I am not familiar with ATI drivers but it shouldn't be hard to find the older ones on their site and give them a shot. Make sure you uninstall your drivers first, then install the newly downloaded "older" drivers.

Post #174195

jmmijo
Senior Member

Posts: 1295
Joined: 2002-05-29
Member No.: 9759

2006-07-23 19:06:30

You should also d/l the latest network/full install of DirectX 9.0c so that you can reinstall this as well

Have you updated your motherboard chipset inf drivers as well ?!?

Post #174196

jelboy
Junior Member

Posts: 2
Joined: 2006-07-23
Member No.: 82622

2006-07-23 20:59:01

Thx guys

I have done all the things you mention but have not been able to uninstall dx to reinstall it!? Any ideas?

Also these games were fine and have seemed to detiorate over the last month.

Another interesting factor - I have an old slow small hdd with Oblivion on it and this runs ok - no probs and has latest drivers - any ideas... It appears to me the directx has become corrupt somehow but I have updated it and it reports no probs

Please help me!!!!!!

Post #174198

tool_462
Senior Member

Posts: 200
Joined: 2004-11-22
Member No.: 48532

2006-07-24 00:02:21

Give this a shot:
Start>Run: type in Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
Microsoft
DirectX
Version
For 9.0c I have a version number of 4.09.0000.0904
Change it to 4.08.0000.0904 and windows (and direct X installers) will believe you
have directX 8 installed.

Try to install 9.0c again. It wont give you the "You already have this installed" message. No idea if it will help, but it's the only idea I have left right now and it is worth a shot!

Post #174202