I know, but Tweety had this problem once when she spilled ice tea on her keyboard, then the technician changed the mainboard, but when she tried to play Jazz2 she got the same problem as defalcon, DirectX8 didn't do nothing (it's obvious) but we wanted to give it a try, then I found out it was her drivers, she downloaded new ones and it worked.

In fact what I wanna say it's that many video card drivers can give that problems, for example it happens with my video card.

Look, I got a 3D Blaster Banshee
If I want I can install 3D Blaster Banshee Drivers from Creative, they're original ones

Or, I can install 3DFX Voodoo Banshee Drivers, in fact, they work, but they mess the resolution and many games don't fit the screen etc, at all the best thing that defalcon can do is configure his monitor, almost all monitors have resizing buttons.