CreatDevice()

I thought direct draw died with 7? It sucked anyway...

Perhaps the DX install has become mangled?
Apart from that, what have you changed lately that would affect it (present parameters etc.)?

-Mezz

I really have not changed anything,this is where the code is breaking:

if(FAILED(g_pD3D->CreateDevice(D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, hWnd,D3DCREATE_SOFTWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING, &d3dpp, &g_pD3DDevice)))
{
return E_FAIL;
}

Hmm, looks fine to me. There really isn''t a lot more I can think of from that, I assume you''ve tried all the step throughs to make sure the window handle etc. are all valid, so I''m just not sure what''s going on - you could try the some of the D3D sample applications, if they don''t exhibit the same problem then it''s still probably you somewhere along the line

-Mezz

P.S. perhaps you''ve updated you graphics card driver recently and that''s given it a problem?