Hey everyone,

whenever I start up the Settlers 3, the main menu pops up and everything seems normal. But as soon as I hit any of the menu buttons like Singleplayer or Load Game the screen freezes. About 10-15 seconds later I actually get into the menu for creating a game but the game crashes after like 5 seconds and give me this error message saying:

'DirectDraw Error DDERR_CANTCREATEDC occured at CSurface::DDGetDC'

I've asked my friend Google for help but could not find anything useful so far.. I run win7 on my PC.
Really hope someone can help me out here, I want to play the game of my childhood again :,c


Best regards,
Maty