Tutorial: How to solve the “Fatal Error. A problem occurred initializing DirectDraw.”
When playing games, an error popped up and saying: “Fatal Error. A problem occurred initializing DirectDraw. Hardware acceleration maybe disabledplease run DXDIAG.” How to fix this annoying problem?
First, you need Perfect Optimizer to scan and repair your system errors.
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After that, go check for latest drivers and give them a run. Make sure that you select the correct driver approprirate for your video card’s model.
• ATI Technologies Inc. http://www.atitech.com/support/driver.html
• Intel http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp
• Nvidia http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
Then check if your DirectX options are right. please click “Start” button, click “Run”, input “dxdiag”(without quotes) and enter. Click “Display” label, make sure the “DirectDraw Acceleration”, “Direct3D Acceleration” and AGP Texture Acceleration” are remaining “Enabled”.

In the end, run windows update, and confirm whether your system have some loophole.
After the four steps of all above, the “Fatal Error” problem will be solved. Good luck!









