Screen Saver not Working

[gurnn]

Hi,

I am having a problem with Vista windows screen savers,,they will not work. It is an Acer Aspire computer with vista Home Premium 64bit OS, I am not using a wireless mouse or keyboard.

The Acer screen savers will work ok, but when I set it to the any of the windows screensavers ,they will not work(except the Windows Logo one), when the screen saver should come on I get a dxdiag.exe window that opens and says
"This application has failed to start because d3d8thk.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem."

I ran the directx diagnostic tool and everything seems ok except when I try to run the 64 bit dxdiag,,then I get the same error msg. as above.

I looked in the directx folder in the windows/sysWOW64/directx directory to see if the fie was there but that folder is empty. Then I downloaded and re-installed Directx and it says it is installed but there are still no files in the directx folder.

TIA,
Allan

 

[richc46]

Welcome
Allen
Sorry that you are having problems. Here are some suggestions
D3d8thk.dll - D3d8thk.dll Not Found Error - Missing D3d8thk.dll - Fix D3d8thk.dll

 

[gurnn]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I had gone to that page before,,that is where I got the link to re-install directx. it did not solve the problem though. I also tried to replace the file only, but I could not find where directx is located on my hard drive, and the version of directx that I downloaded did not seem to have the missing file included with it.

 

[richc46]

Have you tried a simple system restore set to a few days before the problem began?
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-system-restore-how.html

 

[gurnn]

Sorry to be so long replying,,I was away.

The computer is not mine and I am not sure how long it has been having this problem,,I believe it has been about 3 months, system resore does not go back that far.

EDIT; I also just noticed that the chess titans game will not work,,it gives the same directx dll error message when I try to start it. It seems like it is a direct x issue.

 

[angelinaS31]

I think you should take look at your control panel settings properly.

 

[gurnn]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Maybe you could expand on what you mean by "look at your control panel settings properly".

 

[richc46]

Angelina probably means to make sure that you set up the Screen Saver correctly
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85539-screen-saver.html