Need desperately help!

[InCreator]

My problem is following:
I can't play anything that uses DirectDraw in fullscreen! This means > whenever I start an AGS game, it loads, starts to play music and everything but screen... remains black. Totally deeply RGB (0,0,0) kind of black.

Yet, games run fine windowed. And DirectDraw test performs fine.

This is total mystery, because this just happened and everything worked yesterday. It has happened few times in last month and I still have no idea how did I get over it. Last time, I reinstalled DX9.0 and video drivers and It started to work again, but not today.

I still haven't figured out what causes this. Last time this happened after I played Half-Life. Once, I alt-x'ed out from AGS game before first room loaded and then it happened again.

I have shitty 16MB NVidia RIVA TNT 2 card. The type of card that works worse every time I upgrade drivers. Kill those guys at NVidia! And this universal-but-stupid suggestion "get latest drivers"! I also have DirectX 9.0. Windows XP professional.

This time, Direct3D tests FAIL too.

Desktop runs at 800x600 32-bit. Weird thing is that after few days using my cpu, edges of screen start to stretch strangely, so clock font is horisontally weirdly stretched and start menu button too. When I set desktop to 16-bit for a moment, It like resets and everything looks normal in 32-bit mode again.

Where could problem be? How do I get this fixed?

[Gilbert]

Did the graphics show running it windowed?

If you suspect it's Nvidia's driver problem, try downgrading it. I'm using Win95 and Geforce2, but some of the newer drivers behaved weirdly and the most recent ones don't work properly (maybe that's because I removed IE by brute force), so I used an older version and seems that it's okay for me.

[InCreator]

Whoa, it worked! Installed nvidia driver version 53.03 over current 53.72 and directx got its wheels rolling! Some other problems did stop too. Ahh, relief.