Screen saver error

[Karin]

Hi

Tried to install 2 x screensavers from a CD which got with
Windows xp magazine (U.K.)August issue however when went
into the Display Properties to preview them (they are from
Planesoft) I got following error:-

No hardware-accelerated Direct3d devices were found. This
screensaver will now exit.

This message kept popping up even though I am sure I'd set
screensaver to none, so I uninstalled. Similar happened
when tried to install a game (Rosso Rabbit or something?),
was just about to run it and got similar error message.

Any ideas please ?

Tks
+++

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Karin,

It means you need a 3D video card in order to run the screensavers or the
game. You either do not have one, or the one you have is not of high enough
specs to use for them.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Karin" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
>
> Tried to install 2 x screensavers from a CD which got with
> Windows xp magazine (U.K.)August issue however when went
> into the Display Properties to preview them (they are from
> Planesoft) I got following error:-
>
> No hardware-accelerated Direct3d devices were found. This
> screensaver will now exit.
>
> This message kept popping up even though I am sure I'd set
> screensaver to none, so I uninstalled. Similar happened
> when tried to install a game (Rosso Rabbit or something?),
> was just about to run it and got similar error message.
>
> Any ideas please ?
>
> Tks
> +++
>