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Aequitas
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Post by Aequitas »

Welp, I fixed my problem of the galaxy not letting me connect. I uninstalled the tractor client and the Galaxy client and deleted both their root files, then reinstalled them both, and it is now letting me enter the Galaxy. But i am still getting this error message....

****Error Message****
D3D Reset failed - something is wrong with the DirectX setup.


And after recent tries, im an now recieving this error...

****Error Message****
Copy Rects Failed


those two seem to trouble me most.

Basically i installed galaxy and ran it. entered my player name, user name, and passwords. It connects me the galaxy. I scroll to quick play, and select Zoric. After a few seconds of downloading welcome files, it shows me one of these messages, with the choice of Abort, Retry, and Ignore. Though when i select continue game, it takes me to cockpit view and i can goto Zion, or Biplaneworld trouble free.

things i have tried include;
-Going into windowed mode while connecting
-Going into small mode while connecting
-Deleting the files Main.opt and Tractor.cfx
-Uninstalling both clients and doing a clean installation

One other thing I noticed, was at the Galaxy menu. When you start it for the first time a screen asks you to select a character, b/t Jesus and Elvis I believe. I chose Jesus the first time, and have never seen the screen again. Could this lead to something?

Thanks for the help

-Jinx
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Post by zaroba »

currently thier is no difference between the characters. if you really want to change that though, you'll have to reset your gal character by doing a !resetme command.

i have the copy rects error on zoric also, think its because of the old computer i'm on though, since i never had it with my good computer.

are your video card drivers up to date?
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Post by Mit »

The copyrects error comes from drawing a jpg image like the welcome screen - it shouldnt actually be a critical problem.. ignore should jus take u into the game without the welcome screen being displayed.

have your tried a different mode for the Graphics-> 'Show While Gone Screen' setting zar? And whats the dimensions for your welcome.jpg?

One way i know will currently cause copy rects errors is if you're using a mode where the welcome.jpg is displayed at actual size (all ShowWhileGoneScreen modes except 6->11 ) but the welcome.jpg is bigger than the current screen size. The player's render screen is always at least 800x600, but using a welcome.jpg any bigger than that in combination with one of those settings modes will cause problems.
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Post by Aequitas »

Yeah, video card drivers are the latest. but I find it odd that I can connect to Zion, RB, and Biplaneworld with the Galaxy client, but not Zoric. And on the A-tractor client I can connect to Zoric fine, so I don't see how it could be my video card, unless Galaxy is somehow different graphics-wise from the Tractor client?
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Post by scrag »

i got new problem :( when i try clicking a menu tab e.g. racing/ exit vehicle nothing happerens on both my versions 1.27 and 1.28 :!: Mit u got any idea to sort this 1 :?:
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Post by zaroba »

the welcome screen i think is close to 256x256. its a plain white jpg with black text.
i was hoping it could be a bmp actually, because as a monochrome bitmap, its a heck of alot smaller then as the 256 color jpg :P

i was saying i think its graphical because it never happened on my good comp
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Post by scrag »

ok that fixed with my other problem that i posted
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