[Virtualacorn-list] Failed to create primary surface

[David Pitt]

stephen.hull at btinternet.com wrote:

> I have been using Virtual Acorn on my new Toshiba laptop with Vista home
> premium service pack 2 for a few months now and it works very well, but
> about twice a week I get the following error message: "Failed to create
> primary surface" (0x8876024e).
> 
> When I get this message I have to close VA and restart, not a huge problem
> except from losing any unsaved data.
> 
> Has anyone encountered this error message and have they been able to find
> out what it means and/or how to fix it?
> 
> The error message numbers (0x8876024e) are exactly the same each time it
> occurs and I have no idea why it randomly takes out VA on Vista, usually
> after turning on after going into hibernation, though it never happened
> with windows XP on my old laptop.

This used to happen a lot here with Vista which was also on a Toshiba
laptop, with NVidia graphics. 

I have not seen the problem since upgrading to Windows 7. 

-- 
David Pitt

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