Unable to Create 3D Scene
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| A friend of mine tried to play my game on his computer, but he got the error "Unable to create 3D scene" He has a NViDia GeForce 6200Se Graphics card. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Should I have him update DirectX? |
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| Perhaps you specified a graphics mode (resolution) which his screen does not support? |
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| Before upgrading DirectX: What version of DX does he currently have installed? (If you don't know: Run DXDiag.exe to find out) Also, is your program windowed or full-screen? Some of the older graphics adapters don't support 3D acceleration inside a window, but only in full-screen mode. I'm pretty sure I got this error when I tried to run windowed 3D stuff on my old Voodoo3 card. |
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| I'll try these out and get back to you. |
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| He updated to 9.0c and the game is full screen. Also, the DirectX website specificly mentions GeForce cards. Could there be somthing else wrong? |
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| Oh -- how are you luanching the game? IIRC there could be issues if you have your file as a download link in internet explorer and choose "run" to attempt to launch it directly, instead of using "save as" first to write it somewhere on your harddrive. |
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| It is a ZIP file that he has downloaded, extracted, and run. He now informs me that when he last got his computer fixed he got an old graphics card. Do you have any (cheap but good) recommendations? |
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| Also try altering any load texture commands by specifying the texture flags. i've seen some blitz 3d .exe fail unless all load texture commands have flags stated,including colour flags. |
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| Get him to run DXDiag and make sure hardware acceleration shows as enabled on the Display tab, and that all the tests run. Also, if the game uses a fixed screen size, try compiling with a simple Graphics3D 640, 480, 0, 1 and also windowed (640, 480, 0, 2). Make sure his drivers are updated too! |
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