Nicw wrote:

I have recently wiped my hard disks and reinstalled windows xp and all
components but i am having trouble playing my games, whenever I try to
play, it comes up with an error message saying '3d intialisation
failure, please make sure you have installed directx and a updated
display driver'. I have installed directx 9.0 and have a updated
display driver but it still comes up with this message. In some cases
it says 'cannot create 3d device'. my video card is a Nvidia geforce4
mx440 with agp8x.

Swap out your videocard with a known-working one as a test - your card
may be failing.

Malke
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