Good morning guys,
I?ve a little problem with getting soldat started on two of my personal computers. At first I think it helps a lot when I write down my system configurations?
The first one:
OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195)
DX: DirectX 7.0 (4.07.00.0700)
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Northwood, 1816 MHz
RAM: 128 MB RD-800 RAM
Video: Creative Labs 3D Blaster GeForce 2 MX-400 PCI Bus
The second one:
OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195), Service Pack 3
DX: DirectX 8.1 (4.08.01.0901)
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX, 233 MHz
RAM: 64 MB EDO-66 RAM
Video: ATI Technologies Inc. 3D RAGE II+ (GT-B2U3), 2 MB RAM
and an additional 3Dfx Interactive Voodoo Card, 4 MB RAM
The third one:
OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195)
DX: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
CPU: Intel Pentium 3, 500 MHz
RAM: 64 MB SD-133 RAM
Video: Nvidia Riva TNT2 Model 64, 32 MB
On the first one Soldat runs greatfully. I can turn on and off all options which I want and it works. There is really no problem! But the second and third one makes me getting hopeless.
I tried with lower than less settings, 640x480, software rendering, blank screen while bonus fix (because my P233 MMX has an old ATI Card), and so on?
At the first one, I can run the Soldat menu and start a game. But when the game is started I?ve a completely blue screen. So I started a local area network game with my fine working Pentium 4 and joined with my Pentium MMX. The same problem again - a blue screen! I tested to play on the P233 and looked at the monitor of my P4 if there is a reaction. And there is one. I can run with my little soldier over the whole screen and shooting, jumping, flying works also fine but I can?t see this at the monitor of the Pentium One because there I have only a blue window. So I made an ingame screenshot and closed soldat. As I opened the screenshot I began wondering. The screenshot was only a black field with the size of my display resolution.
So let?s come to the third one, my Pentium 3. I had installed DirectX 7.0 at first, then DirectX 8.1b and at last I had installed DirectX 9.0b. But everytime the same error. At first a get a little error window with the following message:
?Error initializing 3D Hardware. Your Hardware does not support DirectX 8. Be sure to install the latest video drivers. Now software will be used??
I clicked the ?OK? Button and after that I get a new message:
?Could not initialize DirectX Graphics. You must have installed DirectX 8 or better. Trying turning off extra options like Antialising?
When I click the ?OK? Button ones more my Soldat window closes automatically.
I have really no idea what I could do so that Soldat is running on all machines. Maybe one of you have one?
I?ve a little problem with getting soldat started on two of my personal computers. At first I think it helps a lot when I write down my system configurations?
The first one:
OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195)
DX: DirectX 7.0 (4.07.00.0700)
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Northwood, 1816 MHz
RAM: 128 MB RD-800 RAM
Video: Creative Labs 3D Blaster GeForce 2 MX-400 PCI Bus
The second one:
OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195), Service Pack 3
DX: DirectX 8.1 (4.08.01.0901)
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX, 233 MHz
RAM: 64 MB EDO-66 RAM
Video: ATI Technologies Inc. 3D RAGE II+ (GT-B2U3), 2 MB RAM
and an additional 3Dfx Interactive Voodoo Card, 4 MB RAM
The third one:
OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195)
DX: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
CPU: Intel Pentium 3, 500 MHz
RAM: 64 MB SD-133 RAM
Video: Nvidia Riva TNT2 Model 64, 32 MB
On the first one Soldat runs greatfully. I can turn on and off all options which I want and it works. There is really no problem! But the second and third one makes me getting hopeless.
I tried with lower than less settings, 640x480, software rendering, blank screen while bonus fix (because my P233 MMX has an old ATI Card), and so on?
At the first one, I can run the Soldat menu and start a game. But when the game is started I?ve a completely blue screen. So I started a local area network game with my fine working Pentium 4 and joined with my Pentium MMX. The same problem again - a blue screen! I tested to play on the P233 and looked at the monitor of my P4 if there is a reaction. And there is one. I can run with my little soldier over the whole screen and shooting, jumping, flying works also fine but I can?t see this at the monitor of the Pentium One because there I have only a blue window. So I made an ingame screenshot and closed soldat. As I opened the screenshot I began wondering. The screenshot was only a black field with the size of my display resolution.
So let?s come to the third one, my Pentium 3. I had installed DirectX 7.0 at first, then DirectX 8.1b and at last I had installed DirectX 9.0b. But everytime the same error. At first a get a little error window with the following message:
?Error initializing 3D Hardware. Your Hardware does not support DirectX 8. Be sure to install the latest video drivers. Now software will be used??
I clicked the ?OK? Button and after that I get a new message:
?Could not initialize DirectX Graphics. You must have installed DirectX 8 or better. Trying turning off extra options like Antialising?
When I click the ?OK? Button ones more my Soldat window closes automatically.
I have really no idea what I could do so that Soldat is running on all machines. Maybe one of you have one?