Cannot create 3d device...

[breaker44 0]

Okay, boys and girls, this badass Army Cadet can't figure out which end is up...

I'm getting this message when I start OFP

Cannot create 3d device:

Adapter 0 () Fullscreen

Resolution 1024x768, format x8R8G888/D16, refresh 1Hz

Error D3DERR_NOTAVAILIABLE

Help?

-Breaker Out

[madmanslegend 0]

It means some badass cadets should get themsleves an Xbox!

wouldn't you just fancy yourself an Xbox?

[breaker44 0]

Uhm, that was helpful.

-BreakerOut

[Victor_S. 0]

Try turning off fastwrite if you have it. I was getting that error when i enabled fast write and it disappeared when i disabled it.

@madmaslegend leave this place. lol

[breaker44 0]

Where Would I find fastwrite? I dunno If I have it.

-Breaker Out

[FireflyPL 0]

Have you tried shortcut parameter -nomap ?

[madmanslegend 0]

lmfao...wtf...omfg...some things never change

[Placebo 29]

madmanslegend spamming and especially spamming in threads where someone is looking for help is not acceptable on these forums, please don't do it again.

breaker44 usually when I get that error it's because either my gfx card drivers or my Directx install is messed up (often when you install new graphics drivers you have to reinstall DirectX afterwards), try running the directx tests and see if they work ok.

Also try searching for "cannot create 3d device" often reported error on these forums.

[madmanslegend 0]

OY VEY! I'm being persecuted!wheres da democracy!da humanity!

I once used the wrong power supply on the wrong motherboard,man was that a waste of some good motherboard <----uncle samuel with a big smiley face

[madmanslegend 0]

when you can't see the angles no more,you in trouble baby,you in trouble....I hope that helped

[Placebo 29]

madmanslegend I asked you once to stop spamming, please don't make me have to ask again, if I do I will remove your posting rights for a while.

[breaker44 0]

It's alright, Placebo, he was adding some...levity to the situation. I fixed this problem, now I have the rainbow texture problem. Looks like liberace made my game or something.

-BreakerOut

[benu 1]

Do you have an nvidia or an ati based card?

[breaker44 0]

NVidia. Can you help me with the rainbow graphics?

-BreakerOut

[benu 1]

I got those once when i made a test mission for terrain detail and viewdistance. When setting both to insane values i got those rainbow colors. Maybe i have a screenshot of that somewhere...

Open your Users\Username\UserInfo.cfg (its a textfile so notepad should do for opening it) and change the following two values:

viewDistance=900.000000;

terrainGrid=25.000000;

[breaker44 0]

They are set to that...

Do you mean change them?

-BreakerOut

[USAF_Rigger 0]

I just recently reinstalled OFP after a year+ hiatus and began having the freeze, crash, the D3D error: cannot create 3D device, and then having to reboot to get directX working again. I read the Avon Lady's FAQ (Thanks AL) and searched through all the forums looking at the suggestions supplied. I tried the "-nomap" switch which delayed the problem for about 45 minutes until it started up again. I noticed it mostly when switching back and forth from scoped weapons, which may or may not pertain to the problem.

I began playing with settings before I did a dreaded rollback on all the drivers. What remedied the problem for me was reducing the audio acceleration to the basic setting and making sure EAX and hardware acceleration was disabled in OFP. My system specs are:

Win XP Pro

Athlon 1500+XP

ASUS A7V333 Motherboard

512MB RAM

Geforce 3 ti200 128MB

SoundBlaster Audigy 2

The Geforce 3 and Audigy 2 are on the latest drivers. Both are also sharing IRQ 16. I had to reduce the sound acceleration with both Hitman 2 and Hitman Contracts as well to get sound at all. The only thing I've noticed sound wise is a really light crackling every-so-often, which is better than going through the headache of rollbacks and not being able to play the game at all.

Figured I'd share my findings since the remedies I've read mostly pertain to either fixing the graphics pipeline for graphics problem or focusing on the sound pipeline for sound problems. My money is on Creative and their lovely drivers.

[wheres my rabbit ? 10]

couple of days ago i installed the newest nvidia drivers played a few games of flashpoint then got lock up for about 10 seconds during the game which then carried on as normal only to do same a few minutes later then CTD when i restarted OFP i got this same error and flashpoint would not run at all ..as there are a few thread about this i came on forums n tried evry suggestion people had and none of it worked .

so i gave up and went to play LOTR middle earth thingy and that wouldn't run either giving a slightly different error along the same lines.. so i'm thinking something terrible.. after a restart LOTR ran ok . then next day went to run OFP and still wouldn't run giving same error so i unistalled nvidia and reinstalled the last version restarted and everything was A ok ..

i told me friend wot had happened and he also said he had to unistall latest nvidia drivers as it had messed up eve online for him

so i'm guessing the new nvidia drivers are just crap

[honchoblack 2]

i second what whereismyrabbit? said, had the same experience with the latest Nvidea drivers

[HotShot 0]

I also have the same problem as you 'wheres my rabbit', and also with a Nvidia card which i just got, and have the newest drivers. So for you, it was fixed by uninstalling the drivers you had installed (which were the newest?), and then re-downloading the newest drivers and installing, then it worked OK?

EDIT: Or should i download the slightly older drivers from XFX site, and not install newest ones?

[wheres my rabbit ? 10]

i reverted back to the previous version 66.93

[HotShot 0]

Thanks for the tip Wheresmyrabbit, it seems to have worked a treat. Played OFP last night for a while and no problems, other than after about an hour i went to alt+tab out and it locked up. I had alt+tabbed out earlier and it was fine, i guess OFP was just a bit bogged down now after a while running?? It doesn't really matter though, at least no freezes and crashes

The whole system is running alittle quicker too, as before, after the new GFX card installed Outlook express was taking a while to start up too, but now that seems to have been fixed also.

[wheres my rabbit ? 10]

flashpoint has always been a bit crap for alt tabbing.although i rarely have problems with that now. just just keep your desktop res different from your game , but everyone knows that right ?

it still occasionally just vanish tho instead of alt tabbing

[juxie 0]

i reverted back to the previous version 66.93

does your Flashpoint.rpt shows some kind of ACCESS_VIOLATION at some memory address?

[Sgt. Lars 0]

I just got around this Cannot Create 3D Device thing myself. I have a Geforce 3 and I'm using the 78.01 drivers. On the global driver settings I turned "Vertical Sync" to Off, and made sure the "Application Controlled" setting was off as well. Everything was fine thereafter.