ok... i was playing pj64 for a while one the same OS and never had a problem but one day i was playing snowboard kids2 and it froze so i crtl alt del it but ended up having to restart and ever since then i have gotten the error: Direct3D failed to initialize your HAL device make sure you have a properly configured 3d graphics card compatible with Direct3d 6.0. Doea NE on have NE idea of how or y this error started showing and how i can gety rid of it. any one that can answer this and help me to fix it will get a user name and pass to my FTP server with over 100 n64 games plus thousands of other system roms thx ô¿ô:blush: