Crash: Could not detect DirectX device.

[Coldfire]

If your laptop has an IGP you will have to disable Aero to play the game without that crash happening all the time.

[Holland]

If your laptop has an IGP you will have to disable Aero to play the game without that crash happening all the time.

This happens to me while in windowed mode only.

I notice when I disable aero I can run the game windowed for a longer time, but as soon as I enter a more graphic intensive enviroment like the Black shroud it will show the error. I can play the game Full screen with all settings maxed, except AO just fine.

I defenitely wish I could play windowed =/

[Coldfire]

Windowed basically fries your GPU. Everyone has this problem and that's why people are so furious about the alt-tab issue.

[schala99]

If your laptop has an IGP you will have to disable Aero to play the game without that crash happening all the time.

I'm not sure what you mean IGP. Can you tell me how to find out if I have one?

As to windowed/not windowed, I don't play in Windowed mode. I play Fullscreen. And no, I'm not having any popups. Today, for the first time, when it gave the error, NVidia Control Panel said that the display driver did fail.

In other words, this moved from a game issue to a display driver issue. I just found out there is a newer version available... once it's downloaded and installed I'll update if that provides a fix.

[schala99]

I updated my graphic's card driver and the game still crashes. It doesn't give the same error message. Instead, now it just freezes up, windows says "This program stopped responding. Do you wish to close the program?" and then it closes it automatically.

Now, my current driver is 3.8.812.0 for my NVidia card.