If you’re like the majority of Windows XP users, you have no idea what DirectDraw is. So a program asking you to turn on DirectDraw will mostly result in confusion. Don’t worry: DirectDraw is built into Windows XP and turning it on is not difficult. You just need to know where to look and what to do. DirectDraw is the component of DirectX that that handles 2D moving images, including visualizations in music players and charts and graphs in certain office programs. It’s possible DirectDraw is erroring out because your version of DirectX is not up to date. See the Resources section of this article for a link to Microsoft’s update page for DirectX. It’s possible the drivers for your video card are out of date; run Windows update and see if more recent drivers are available for your video card. Another possibility is that Desktop Sharing is involved—Netmeeting’s Desktop sharing function disables 3D acceleration. Turn this off by opening up NetMeeting, then clicking “Tools” followed by unchecking the “Enable Desktop Sharing on This Computer” box. Writer Bio
