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I am having the "problem" that EMI will only run in openGL on my machine. If I try D3D, I get only music with black screen requiring hard reboot (F1;q;Y doesnt work). It runs fine in OpenGL, but I would like to know why D3D screws up. My Machine:

P3 667

32Mb Geforce DDR with latest non-beta drivers

128Mb RAM

Creative SB Live sound-card

Win98 SE

Direct X 7a

NB I have done a complete reinstall of Win98SE onto a freshly formatted hard-drive to rule out a pre-existing software issue, but D3D still wont work in this game.

Thanks for any help

David.

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why even mess with d3d its not near as powerful and it looks worse!! play the game through in OPENgl 32bit and ull be happy as a clam biggrin.gif

 

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Thanks for your reply. I am aware that OpenGL is the better option, but I am just concerned to know whether the fact that D3D will not work, means that there is some unresolved driver/hardware issue on my machine. If there is, and it is not just a bug in this game, then I would be keen to track it down. So if anyone has the same set-up as me (see original post) and can run EMI in both D3D and OpenGL then let me know. Also, please let me know if you have similar issues to me.

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now that i look again, try getting Dx8, because Nvida wrote the coding for it and since u have a gforce im sure that it should clear things up.

 

if not, do your other games work in d3d? because im sure its just a MI4 thing in that case.

 

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Thanks.

I have now tried DX8, but the same problem arises. D3D works fine in other games, so I am beginning to accept that this is just an issue with this particular game. I would still be interested to hear if anyone runs EMI with a geforce DDR in D3D without problems. Particularly if the rest of their setup is similar to mine.

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Originally posted by newfoundgloryboy:

heres what worked for me and the other guy, change your shortcut path from

BLAH:\blah\monkey.exe to BLAH:\blah\monkey4.exe

 

and then set the d3d settings using the auto run off cd1

 

hope it works for you, if not openGL is good enogh

 

try that ^

 

 

 

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