DirectDraw

[quackmofro]

When I installed SC4 on my computer when I got it, the game worked just fine and quite beautifully, frankly. I haven't touched it again until recently when I wanted to participate in the GRV II challenge. When I try to start it up, I get a message box saying: "Could not initialize Direct Draw." I noticed Haljackey on the forums having the same problem. It was suggested to run dxdiag.exe to see if there were any problems. I decided to run it, and I observe that neither DirectDraw acceleration nor AGP texture acceleration are available. Is there anyone else that has experienced a similar problem to this that has an answer?

Specs:
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.7 GHz
Memory: 3062 MB DDR3 RAM
Video: ATI Radeon HD 4850 w/ 1 GB discrete memory
DirectX 10

I'm not sure what other specs may be relevant, but any assistance will be appreciated.

EDIT: Never mind about this. I used System Restore and that appeared to fix it.

[Rayden]

Try to remember what have you done/modify/update after that restore point that caused that error. That way you and anybody else with the same problem will know exactly the cause of it.