Topic: New machine, get an error in sfc3 on it! plz help guys!

[mc_cloud]

i get this error when launching a mission, in campaign, when i hit ready (in mission breifing screen), or in single player skirmis...crash to desktop and this


Unhandled Exception! in Version 1.00 Build 435
SFC3.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module d3d8.dll at 001B:6DA1D793

EAX=00000000  EBX=000003DE  ECX=21626340  EDX=0147BFD0  ESI=00000400
EDI=01478240  EBP=000003FA  ESP=0012FBDC  EIP=6DA1D793  FLG=00010206
CS=001B   DS=0023  SS=0023  ES=0023   FS=003B  GS=0000

001B:6DA1D793 (0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000) d3d8.dll


my new machine i just got yesterday

Dell Dimension 4550
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
512 DDR ram
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
128 DDR ATI Radeon 9700 TX w/TV-Out
30 Gig HD
 

[Cleaven]

Does it help if you skip the intro video's (by renaming them), and have you DL'ed the necessary updates/service packs for your new PC.  

[SSCF Hooch]

read this thread. It's your video drivers. Yank the drivers out, don't try to fix them. Then reinstall them from your orignal disk.

http://208.57.228.4/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB3&Number=6771&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Hooch

[mc_cloud]

these are the original drivers (machines 3 days old)  ill try to update them when i get broadband in my room...but untill then, any suggestions?  

[Goose]

If you read the link in Hooch's post what you have to do is:
Download Windows updates - particularly the Service Packs. This will also include DirectX8.1.
Apply any patches to SFC.
Download update for your Internet Connection.

DO NOT update the drivers for the Video Card.
If you have the problem with this arrangement, then download the updated drivers (make sure they are for XP) for the video.

Try that.