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<blockquote data-quote="bwbass" data-source="post: 138883" data-attributes="member: 48689">I've successfully installed MediaPortal on my desktop PC (Athlon XP 1800, 512MB ram, Nvidia Geforce 4200ti, XP Home), but on my laptop (Pentium M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram, Nvidia 6800 Go, XP Pro), I get this error while DirectX is initializing:<img src="http://lh5.google.com/image/bwbass/RglzDK8TOgI/AAAAAAAAAEE/hEPorewaw6A/s800/mediaportal_error.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />My display was set to 1440 x 900 32 bit color, but I get this same error no matter what resolution and color depth I set it to.&nbsp; I've tried the stable build and the latest SVN snapshot with the same results.My MediaPortal log has this to say about the event:[CODE]2007-03-27 12:34:26.250000 [Info.][MPMain]: Main: Initializing DirectX2007-03-27 12:34:26.296875 [Info.][MPMain]: D3D: Exception: This sample cannot run in a desktopwindow with the current display settings.Please change your desktop settings to a16- or 32-bit display mode and re-run thissample. MediaPortal&nbsp; &nbsp; at MediaPortal.D3DApp.ChooseInitialSettings()&nbsp;&nbsp; at MediaPortal.D3DApp.CreateGraphicsSample()[/CODE]Any ideas what's wrong?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bwbass, post: 138883, member: 48689"] I've successfully installed MediaPortal on my desktop PC (Athlon XP 1800, 512MB ram, Nvidia Geforce 4200ti, XP Home), but on my laptop (Pentium M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram, Nvidia 6800 Go, XP Pro), I get this error while DirectX is initializing: [CENTER][IMG]http://lh5.google.com/image/bwbass/RglzDK8TOgI/AAAAAAAAAEE/hEPorewaw6A/s800/mediaportal_error.JPG[/IMG][/CENTER] My display was set to 1440 x 900 32 bit color, but I get this same error no matter what resolution and color depth I set it to. I've tried the stable build and the latest SVN snapshot with the same results. My MediaPortal log has this to say about the event: [CODE]2007-03-27 12:34:26.250000 [Info.][MPMain]: Main: Initializing DirectX 2007-03-27 12:34:26.296875 [Info.][MPMain]: D3D: Exception: This sample cannot run in a desktop window with the current display settings. Please change your desktop settings to a 16- or 32-bit display mode and re-run this sample. MediaPortal at MediaPortal.D3DApp.ChooseInitialSettings() at MediaPortal.D3DApp.CreateGraphicsSample()[/CODE] Any ideas what's wrong? [/QUOTE]

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