Vista - Error code help

Hi everyone,

just new to the forum, heck infact im new to the whole vista mode itself, i have the trouble opening a game and i wonder if anyone could help me out in it, it would be greatly aprreciated. i have a troubling opening a game because it keeps giving me this error : "could not open display Error code = 0xc8660160"

i really dont know what that means or what i am even supposed to do to fix it, infact the same game i tried opening on my dads pc with is a windows xp, and it works fine but i really want to try it in vista because my laptop is vista and i dnt want to keep using my dads pc just to play it.

i really, really need help in this, i tried to find out the answer everywhere with no luck, hope you guys can help me out, thanks a bunch.

regards,

Nikki

still waiting for a reply, please help.

hello Nikki24
what game are you trying to play and what are your system specs ?, does any other game play on your comp or are they all showing this error ?, i would check to see if i had the latest video drivers and that my directx is upto date. here is the link for directx, you will have to go to your card makers site to update the card drivers. is this a new problem or have you had it for a while ?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

hi,

thanks for replying, well the game i was trying to play was Virtual families, a game by big fish, but not all games react with this error, only few of the games such as this one always show me this error. And this sort of problem i was experiencing it in the very beginning.

Im really sorry if i sound stupid but what system specifics are you looking for? becuase im very new to this stuff and im not very good at computers *blush* but this is all what i know:

im using a acer aspire 4920 and its an intel core 2 duo processor, 1.83 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2 cache.

if this isnt the info your looking for (which i kinda think it isnt :P) just let me know which specification your looking for ill find that out for you.

thank again for your help and cooperation

regards,

nikki

hi again,
found this site, it seems you are not the only one with this problem, try some of the solutions on this site, it is the game makers site so it should be what you are looking for, hope this helps.

Display problems and/or Error code=0xc8660160 or 0xc8660110 - Last Day of Work -- Official Forums

thank you so much, ill check it out.
thanks a lot for your help hope i get this sorted out soon