Hi,

I just installed Soldat and when starting, I'm getting an error message, telling me that my hardware does not support DirectX 8 and I should install the latest drivers.
After that, the game starts, but I am just seeing a black screen.

I'm using a Geforce 4 Mx (and I downloaded and installed the latest drivers yesterday) and have DirectX 9.0b installed.

Any idea what could be wrong?

Uninstall the game delete the Game Floder and install agian.

Try this:

quote:Orginally from Official Soldat FAQ
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