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"Failed to create d3d device" Error solution

By AudibleSwiftness

This guide will hopefully help you solve an annoying d3d device error on older Lego games!

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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3 Dec, 2021 @ 7:13pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Clean solution

Slightly messier

All done!

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Introduction

Chances are, you're on a modern gaming laptop- and just wanna enjoy some older Lego games. But, upon opening, you run into this:

In Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, Lego Batman, and I can assume others from the early Lego game days, won't work if your monitor refresh rate is not 60hz. A lot of laptops now have 144hz refresh rates. Great for some things, not so great for older Lego games.

Clean solution

Connect to a monitor with a 60hz refresh rate. Most connect via HDMI, so shouldn't be a problem for most laptops. If you don't have an HDMI port, there are USB-to-HDMI adapters available.

I found out this worked by using my monitor drawing tablet, which has a 60hz refresh rate. Problem solved!

Slightly messier

If you don't have, or don't want to connect an external monitor, there are a few options.

First, right-click your desktop and go to Display Settings, then Advanced Display settings. Check and see if your box for refresh rate has other options, and if so, select 60hz. (Other rates below 144hz might work, but 60 definitely works so it's just as well to use that.)

If that's not an option, then you'll need to use some software.

Use caution and remember to ask the computer owner before using this tool!

I've not experienced any issues with it thus far, and I believe it's fairly simple and not likely to ruin your machine. However, it does modify registry entries. So again, use some discretion.

You can download Custom Resolution Utility from monitortests' website, or via this link[www.monitortests.com]
if steam doesn't remove it

Be sure to read the description and tutorials on the site as well!

After you extract the contents, run the CRU exe as an administrator.

Then, under Standard Resolutions, select "add"

and select your resolution. It must be 60hz!.

Press "OK".

Now, in the same folder as CRU.exe, run "restart.exe". This'll restart the graphics driver, so the screen will briefly black out.

After that's done, go to Windows'' Advanced Display settings and, if all went right, you'll now see 60hz as an option. Select it.

All done!

You should be able to enjoy those older Lego games now!

13 Comments

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Død Viking 28 Mar @ 9:03am

Thanks for helping! It works! May God bless you and your family and everyone else!

SantiiRepair 11 Oct, 2024 @ 7:14pm

The same thing happened to me, I was testing a pirate game in Windows 11 Dev Hyper-V, the problem is that ‘Enhanced Session Mode Policy’ was activated and because of this the game could not change the screen resolution, I have deactivated it and now it works perfectly.

Belisarius 1 Jul, 2022 @ 4:04pm

Second option worked great, thanks!

AudibleSwiftness [author] 5 May, 2022 @ 8:01am

In windows display settings, do you have it set to only display on the second monitor? If it's set to extend or duplicate it might cause problems

BAPPLE BOY 4 May, 2022 @ 8:58pm

ok i have my second monitor (60 hz) connected... then what??? how do i choose what monitor it goes to, cause opening it just does "d3d" no matter what

Ciaolo 3 May, 2022 @ 10:45am

On Windows 11 the 60Hz option appears only after a complete restart. And it doesn't need to be selected, the game detects it and that's enough.

AudibleSwiftness [author] 29 Apr, 2022 @ 4:21pm

oh seriously? that's great! I haven't played an old lego game in a while but I'll have to check that out when I do, thanks

RemiteSoul 29 Apr, 2022 @ 4:02pm

Worked like a charm! Thank you so much I tried to look up guides on the internet and I couldn't find a solution. One thing I'd like to point out is that once you set your refresh rate to 60 Hz and launch the game, you can change it back to your regular refresh rate and it will still recognize that you can use 60 Hz so it will change your refresh rate automatically so you don't constantly have to swap them back and forth.

jumpermf 4 Dec, 2021 @ 10:26am

I've just tried all of the compatibility modes all the way back to Win95, and always the same. It is curious to me however, that whenever I shift+tab out of the game (because I can't see how to quit), the screen is seen in a flash for a second, and then all is black again.

AudibleSwiftness [author] 4 Dec, 2021 @ 10:11am

Have you tried running the .exe in different compatibility modes? I've heard that works sometimes

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