DDERR_CANTCREATEDC

Code: 0x88760249 (2289435209)

As HRESULT:

S: 1 (Failure)
C: 0 (Microsoft-defined)
N: 0 (Not an NTSTATUS value)
X: 1 (Reserved, only expected on the TRK exceptions)
Facility: 0x076 (Unknown facility)
Code: 0x0249 (585)

As NTSTATUS:

Sev: 2 (STATUS_SEVERITY_WARNING)
C: 0 (Microsoft-defined)
Facility: 0x876 (Unknown facility)
Code: 0x0249 (585)

Documented in Win32

Windows cannot create any more device contexts (DCs), or a DC has requested a palette-indexed surface when the surface had no palette and the display mode was not palette-indexed (in this case, DirectDraw cannot select a proper palette into the DC).