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I'm having some problems with OFP (Operation Flashpoint).  I was playing it merrily, no problem, and then it crashed, when I try to start it up again, I get the following message-
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Cannot create 3Ddevice:
 Adapter 0 (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200) Fullscreen
 Resolution 1024x768, format X8R8G8B8/D24S8, refresh 75 Hz
 Error D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE
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This is very strange, because it just crashed out of nowhere.  It should be noted that I was having problems with it freezing up for 20 seconds, playing fine for 3 minutes, freezing for 20 seconds, so on and so forth.

Any ideas?  A speey response would be appreciated

UPDATE:  After a reboot, I was able to play fine for about 15 minutes before it started freezing again, and then promptly crashed. I got the same error message when I tried to start it again.  It would appear as though something happens while I'm playing it.

If no one here knows (thought I'd give good ole SimV a try first), could you please direct to a hardcore hardware forum?

RE-UPDATE:  It should also be noted that I recently installed new vid drivers.... do I need to manually uninstall the old ones?

Sounds like a bad driver. Suggest to reinstall them.

Always uninstall the old drivers before updating. Use add/remove software to uninstall then delete the Nvidia folders from C:\Nvidia and/or C:\Program Files. Reboot, cancel found new hardware, then install new drivers.

You can also use drivercleaner to make sure old registry entries are removed. http://www.drivercleaner.net/

Thanks for the reply... this seems like it might be much more helpful than what Codemasters sent me.

One thing-I have two "driver" related things on the add/remove software, NVIDIA Drivers and NVIDIA Display drivers.  Do I just remove both?

Yep, remove anything nvidia related when reinstalling.

Thanks for the quick reply, I'm on it

No luck

I'll have to wait until my computer guru comes to get it fixed