Gabriel Knight 3 - DirectX Problems in Windows 2000

This is a discussion about Gabriel Knight 3 - DirectX Problems in Windows 2000 in the Windows Games category; I have read all the post on GK3 and have copied over the GK3. exe from the CD. I thought the game was going to start but then got following error: No DirectDraw drivers detected. Make sure DirectX is installed properly.

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I have read all the post on GK3 and have copied over the GK3.exe from the
CD. I thought the game was going to start but then got following error:
 
No DirectDraw drivers detected. Make sure DirectX is installed properly.
 
I then ran dxdiag.exe which showed I have DirectX 7.0 (4.07.00.0700). I ran
the test utilities and everything tested ok.
 
Problem may be my video card, 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 with Driver Version
5.0.2195.17 (newest drivers from 3DFX).
 
Has anyone got this to work successfully with the Voodoo3 3000? Does anyone
have a work around or a fix for this error?
 
Thanks in advance.

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Did the "Display" tab in DXDIAG show Direct3D to be enabled?
 
Also, do any other DirectX games work on your machine?
 
 
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SuperMicro P6DBS (dual UW-SCSI) BIOS 2.2, 2*Celery 300a @ 450Mhz, 384MB PC100 RAM
SCSI-A=4.3Gb+9Gb, SCSI-B=Tosh32x CD-ROM, Yamaha4416 CD-RW, Iomega ZIP100, IDE1=4.3Gb
IBM EtherJet 10/100 NIC PCI + Nortel ADSL "modem"
Matrox G400 DH 32Mb AGP + Quantum3D Voodoo2 SLI PCI (CL TNT1 AGP on a shelf)
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Thanks for responding. I don't play a lot of games on my box so I had to install some to be able to answer your questions. The answer is, it depends. I can run games such as "the Sims" but when I tried to run Star Wars Racer I received an identical error.
 
Under the Display tab of Dxdiag, DirectX Features section, DirectDraw Acceleration is Enabled. Direct3D is not available and AGP support is not available.
 
Hopefully this answers your questions so you can make some conclusions. Thanks
 
Gary