gave a couple of ways to fix this problem...Hopefully one of them will work for you:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-40,GGLG:en&q=prism3d%2Eexe
TONI
i am halfway through duke nukem the manhattan project and i tried to play yesterday and it wont let me play i encounter a screen that says:prism3d.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. what do i do? i have changed nothing on my settings and cant seem to fix the problem.

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