[IMAGE] Okay I jsut got soldat today and ive had a lsit of problems. first i had a d3d8 probaly i fixed when i downloaded direct X 9.1 or the newest one. now im getting a error inilizing 3d hardware. your hardare does not support direct 8. be sure to install the latest drivers. now software will be used... then after that one another pops up saying could not inilize directX graphics, you must have direct x 8. or better try turning of analising. please help!

oh then the game jsut closes down.

go download new graphic drivers.

i already did, i downloaded the lastest one

Then install an older one?
What is ur graphic card, specs of u rcomputer OS...?

my GRAPHX card is a GForce2, and my operatin system is win 98

did you try turning off anti-aliasing? also id reccommend omega drivers [URL] over the current nvidia forceware (they increase graphics clarity and have less bugs).

i got windows xp,but a sucky video card called esavage and i get the same problem

Yeah... I'm having to use a different crappy computer over the summer and it used to play Soldat just fine, then last week *pow* I get that same stupid error everytime. It's a P3-733 running Win98se with just the standard HP Nvidia crap card. The thing that is the most annoying is that it used to run just fine on that computer. [:-banghead] I haven't had much luck in fixing it yet (but I haven't really had time to try either). If I get it working I'll let you know....

p.s. I think Palloco is on the right track. Try reinstalling your old driver.

http://www.soldat.pl/faq.html

quote:1. The game does not run! I get an error: cannot initialize 3d hardware, or something like that.

It's a hardware compatibility error:
- Make sure you have the latest DirectX drivers
- Try to run the game in window-mode
- Change the Windows desktop colors from 32-bit to 16-bit
- Try to change some Soldat Config settings (turn off Antialiasing, check 16-bit)
- Install the latest or different video drivers
- Try changing the windows desktop resolution and bit-rate
- Try turning down or up the graphics hardware acceleration (My Computer/Properties/Performance/Graphics)
- Try updating your motherboard drivers
- Check also this this topic on the forum - 3d initialization problem
- If you have Windows NT/2000 install the latest service pack
try those.. and give some information what you've done so far.

I have tryed everything except the motherboard thing.

take off full screen that worked for me