DX 9.0b and netmeeting issue

I'm not sure if the issue is specific to dx 9.0b and or actually affects other dx versions and OSes, but I discovered last night that if netmeeting is running (remote desktop sharing is enabled, or the netmeeting box is just up) it screws up direct 3d. no direct 3d games would run, and the dx7 direct 3d test in dxdiag would error with "test failed at step 8 .......) exited out of netmeeting, and problem solved.

I'd be interested to see if the problem can be reproduced on other OSes (running windows XP) and other DX versions.

I've reproduced the problem on 3 XP boxes with DX9.0b.

Does each of these machines have some sort of video capture engine?

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Originally Posted by NooNoo

Does each of these machines have some sort of video capture engine?

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nope. mine at home does. the two at work did not.

well thats me out of ideas...

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Originally Posted by NooNoo

well thats me out of ideas...

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I'm not looking for a solution Noo. . . . the solution was simple enough. just close netmeeting when I wanted to play madden 2004. I was just posting so that if someone here has the same issue, or someone googles for the error message, they might not have to spend 2 hours trying to fix it like I did last night.

oh....