posted 03-12-10 12:18 PM ET (US)
AoE games and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds don't run since I changed my computer from a PCI-based mainboard and a museal S3 Virge Graphic Card to a Gygabyte board and an ATI Radeon graphic card. They terminate with the error message 'Could not initialize graphic system. Make sure your video card is compatible with direct draw.'
As I see searching the web for troubleshouting, many other people have the same problem, and more and more will meet it as hardware and software developments make older games out of date. My distributor said that my videocard is not compatible with those old DirectX and DirectDraw versions required for Genie engine based games, and the problem cannot be fixed, unless Microsoft (or Lucasarts) writes a patch to fix it (we must admit it, the latter is quite improbable).
Is there a simple and comfortable way to solve this problem?
Or must we start to affiliate with the thought Genie games soon would disappear (slowly, but surely) like DOS games?
Thx for any substantive remarks;
G.
As I see searching the web for troubleshouting, many other people have the same problem, and more and more will meet it as hardware and software developments make older games out of date. My distributor said that my videocard is not compatible with those old DirectX and DirectDraw versions required for Genie engine based games, and the problem cannot be fixed, unless Microsoft (or Lucasarts) writes a patch to fix it (we must admit it, the latter is quite improbable).
Is there a simple and comfortable way to solve this problem?
Or must we start to affiliate with the thought Genie games soon would disappear (slowly, but surely) like DOS games?
Thx for any substantive remarks;
G.
[This message has been edited by Gubbubu (edited 03-12-2010 @ 12:26 PM).]
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