Direct3D error

jmoyet · Post by **jmoyet** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:10 am

Software:Universal Client
Version Number:0.54.4
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Location
Launching the game.
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Description:
I start the game connects and goes to load the menu and it gives me and error saying:
Invalid call for direct3d create device. i click on retry and it shows the the Graphics Initialisation Failed window with graphic and video card settings..

I have an ATI Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB GDDR3 PCIe x16 graphics card. with latest drivers.
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Steps to Replicate:
Start TU

Post by **Mit** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:01 am

Can you try using the 'options.exe' (should be in your clients folder) and switch from windowed to fullscreen (or vice versa) and see if that changes anything. Let me know if not.
There have been some changes to the graphics initialisation which i thought should be compatable across all cards, but perhaps not.. If neither option works, i'll revert the changes and provide a build that makes them optional.

jmoyet · Post by **jmoyet** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:54 am

It does it for any setting i put.. What was the new setup suppose to do/fix on this version?

(Wonder why I didn't get an email reply alert from this topic)

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:09 pm

try clicking 'ignore' on the error?

if its possible to get into small mode before the error, could also try switching between Basic Directx and Advanced DirectX in the video card options.

jmoyet · Post by **jmoyet** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:24 pm

iv done all that... still the same.. Seems to be with ATI... on my older computer i have an nvidia 6200 256MB AGP graphics card and TU works fine on it. could have been a typo on the graphics part of the code somewhere..

Post by **Mit** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:44 pm

jmo, can you pop me an email to mit [at] theuniversal.net, so i can send you a custom build to try out?
(Alternatively pop on to biplaneworld in the next hour or two with the old client..)

jmoyet · Post by **jmoyet** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:57 pm

dont have the old client... i replaced it with the new one...

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:08 am

its still on the site:
http://theuniversaldownloads.com/GalaxyExe0540.zip

jmoyet · Post by **jmoyet** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:15 am

after messing with the advanced directx setting got it working but heavely bugged..

thanks for the link zar!

jmoyet · Post by **jmoyet** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:39 am

i patch back to 0.54.0 and it did the same.. uninstalled it and did a clean install and now i get

"This application has failed to start because NxCooking.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

can you make anything of that?

jmoyet · Post by **jmoyet** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:58 am

found the dll error..
the 0.54.4 full install file is missing dll files. you have to get them from the patch zip file

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:31 pm

nxcooking.dll...

lol, adding cooking to the houses now mit?

jmoyet · Post by **jmoyet** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:34 pm

now that i did some research on nxcooking.dll and some stuff... i think the bug is that TU has become none compatible with ATI drivers since the new TU version is using physx nvidia drivers.

i could be wrong... but thats what i came up with so far

fatboy.01 · Post by **fatboy.01** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:01 pm

since i updated to 54.4

i got direct error the same as jmoyet

i've managed to get it to launch but space is frozen to me apart from the little screen in the top right of screen were other player details are displayed

i used the little screen to land on zion and everything is working as it should on zion

im also have ati graphics card

jmoyet · Post by **jmoyet** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:24 am

yeah i get the frozen space bug also.

morbydvisns · Post by **morbydvisns** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:21 am

yeup same with this here laptop w/ATI video.

.0 fixed it.

i emaield ya on it mit

jmoyet · Post by **jmoyet** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:56 am

Hey I found the problem. Its the Interface.dll that comes with the 0.54.4 version thats bugged. I replaced it with the 0.54.0 Interface.dll and it runs perfectly on the 0.54.4 client.

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:13 pm

could someone tell me exactly how to replace the dll thingy? like what do i download, where do i find the dll thingy and what and stuff. i got the .4 client and i need to fix it. thanks.

Speeddy · Post by **Speeddy** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:58 pm

OMFG , HE IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **Fooli** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:17 am

It works fine for me... I assume from the above that we're having issues with ATI gfx?

A few older versions are on the download server still, Ftard. Just edit the number so it says 0540 or somethin. Interface.dll will be in the zip - just overwrite your existing one, if you really wanna (it lives in the game's root folder). Not sure it's a great fix or even a great idea, but if you wanna, that's how.

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