DX DirectDraw accel, 3D accel, and AGP texture accel not available?

Hi, I have tried everything on the internet... And simply cannot find a solution to the problem.

Whenever i try to run a game, it says DirectX hardware acceleration is turned off.
I then run dxdiag, and DirectDraw accel, 3D accel, and AGP texture acceleration are all listed as "not available" There is no button next to them to enable them.

I have tried re installing DirectX, but to no avail. Also, I have tried updating my video cards, but again, no luck.

Attached is my PC information, and the screen where everything is unavailable.
Pleeeaaase help me... ASAP!

hi Skypatrol250, Welcome to the forums ,Would you be so kind and tell us the make/model of your graphic card please , that way we may be able to assist you further

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+
Is my current video card

Open DirectX Diagnostics (dxdiag.exe) and on the Display tab or the right hand side it will display the current driver installed. What does it say on it?

Everything is blank on that page. does that mean its not reading my driver?

Skypatrol re download and reinstall the drivers http://uk.geforce.com/drivers/results/38960 there may have been a problem with the original download

No luck
It finished, and i restarted my system as it said... But it still says the same.... nothing.

Skypatrol ,could you please give us a litte more information on your PC system make/model etc

System Information
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Time of this report: 12/18/2011, 12:28:24
Machine name: PARENTS-PC
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.111025-1503)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: INTELR
System Model: AWRDACPI
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 1536MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 1536MB RAM
Page File: 1109MB used, 1961MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode

Thank you for that Skypatrol , but it does not tell us a lot ,what is the make and model of the pc

I really have no idea how to find that information.

I have absolutely no idea how to find that information :/
Im not a computer genius

Download CPU-Z from here: CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting
and run that, it will give you info about your motherboard, cpu, ram and graphic cards.

You can use either one of these programs to find the information.

Speccy http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download

HWINFO http://majorgeeks.com/HWiNFO_d279.html

Fabe

You can find the System Manufacturer and model by running MSINFO32 and look on the summary page.

As for the driver, try the Control Panel, Programs and features, and uninstall any Nvidea or similar drivers from the list and reboot. Then install the new driver again. This should clear out any conflicts between old and newer drivers.

How did it go, Skypatrol? Did you find out what was wrong?

Guess what; now I have the same problem!

I recently updated my computer’s video driver from Nvidia 275.33 to the new 285.62 for Windows 7 (64bit) as I have a Geforce 560 video card.

It all worked fine until I restarted my computer...all of a sudden my pc won’t run any games, there’s no resolution options to choose from in the game menus, and I get a “failed to initialize render” error message.

In Dxdiag it says that the Direct X components Direct Draw-acceleration plus Direct 3d and AGP texture is not available. I tried to enable them in the control panel, but there were no buttons for enabling.

I’ve tried re-installing the newest Nvidia driver twice (plus the new beta), and it only works (with Dxdiag saying the Direct X components are active) until I restart my computer, then the direct x-components turn to "not available" and nothing works once again.

I have Direct X 11, tried to download Direct X 9 in case there’d be any files missing on my pc, but it tells me it’s not necessary.

I updated all the relevant new drivers I could find, including for my chipset, that didn't help.

I did other things for a few days, that didn't help.

I did a harddisk recovery, lost all my programs and files, installed all drivers again and that didn't help.

Now I'm about to check whether my graphic card is boiled, fried or just slightly out of balance, like me.