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*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,781 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Another common problem with Windows (especially Vista I believe) is that it doesn't always come with proper OpenGL-supporting graphics drivers. Make sure you have the latest drivers for you graphics card installed. ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted May 9, 2007, 7:41 pm

ASN_ASSASSIN OFF-ROAD_KILLERS Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: Feb 23, 2007 can u also put the system requirments cause i'm not sure if my computer is fast enough and also how much memory the grafic card needs Posted May 11, 2007, 11:43 pm

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,781 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 The main requirement would be a 64MB minimum graphics card (ideally more though). Even if you find the framerate isn't great on your computer, you can usually still manage to play since its a turn-based game and you don't get pwned by all the other players like you would in a real-time game.. ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted May 17, 2007, 11:59 am

Section8 Axes and Eights Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: May 6, 2007 I'm having some dramas with my framerate though I'm currently running an nVidia 7900GT under Vista with current drivers. Any thoughts? Can I somehow force D3D? Or failing that, what can I alter in my prefs.cs to get a better performance? ......................... vet Posted Jul 25, 2007, 1:44 am

Deathangels Shadow deathys Strikers Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Contributors Posts: 658 Joined: Jul 23, 2007 In %Program Files%/Darkwind/common/client/prefs.cs, find the line that reads: $pref::Video::allowOpenGL = "1"; Change the 1 to a 0. ......................... vet wv Posted Jul 25, 2007, 2:24 am

*Zothen* Knights Templar Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Marshals Posts: 841 Joined: Jun 11, 2007 Curious, but on Win2K I got this: (when $pref::Video::allowOpenGL = "0"; ) Quote: Video Init:   Accelerated OpenGL display device detected.   Accelerated D3D device not detected.   Voodoo 2 display device not detected. "D3D" display device not found! "D3D" display device not found! "D3D" display device not found! "Voodoo2" display device not found! Loading compiled script common/ui/defaultProfiles.cs. Loading compiled script common/ui/GuiEditorGui.gui. This shouldn't happen: glGenTextures This shouldn't happen: glBindTexture This shouldn't happen: glTexImage2D This shouldn't happen: glTexParameteri This shouldn't happen: glTexParameteri This shouldn't happen: glTexParameteri This shouldn't happen: glTexParameteri This shouldn't happen: glGenTextures This shouldn't happen: glBindTexture ...and so on..! Sam said that he had not included the D3D dlls and I think I noticed it! But why can Deathangels run it in D3D? Because of Vista? I remember that fu&%§$! Microsoft prevents DX from installing some components on Win2k which would run, but... dont know.. ......................... vet marshal wv Posted Jul 25, 2007, 2:32 pm Last edited Jul 25, 2007, 2:33 pm by Zothen

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,781 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 He must have had the DLLs already, elsewhere (he's a Torque programmer too, you see). I've put them here for you to try: d3dwrappers.zip You need to unzip this into the same folder that the darkwindLobby.jar and the darkwindClient.exe are in. Personally, I found the framerate got worse when using DirectX instead of OpenGL. ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted Jul 25, 2007, 2:51 pm Last edited Jul 25, 2007, 2:52 pm by *sam*

Section8 Axes and Eights Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: May 6, 2007 Cheers for the D3D libs, Sam. I'm now getting nice smooth performance, as I'd expect from my stupidly overpowered card. Makes me wonder exactly how much crippling MS have done to OpenGL under Vista. :/ ......................... vet Posted Jul 27, 2007, 12:50 am

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,781 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 That's interesting. I'll definitely put the option in for Windows users to use D3D then.. How much better did the framerate get? ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted Jul 27, 2007, 10:54 am Last edited Jul 27, 2007, 10:55 am by *sam*

Section8 Axes and Eights Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: May 6, 2007 I haven't actually measured it numerically, but it was pretty significant. Northern Foothills under OpenGL was between about 1-5 frames in places (all of the lights in view?) and now it stays at least above 20 frames per second. I'll see if I can get you some exact measures though. ......................... vet Posted Jul 28, 2007, 1:50 pm

Deathangels Shadow deathys Strikers Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Contributors Posts: 658 Joined: Jul 23, 2007 My performance seems better in OpenGL... but I noticed something odd while testing it. FRAPS works great when I'm in OpenGL but won't work in DirectX mode. Very strange. As a result, it's only a guess that the performance is better for me in OpenGL. ......................... vet wv Posted Jul 29, 2007, 2:38 am

Joel Autobaun Joels Bastards Darkwind Guru Deathrace Mafia Faction Group: Sinbinned Posts: 4,598 Joined: Nov 10, 2008 *sam* said: He must have had the DLLs already, elsewhere (he's a Torque programmer too, you see). I've put them here for you to try: d3dwrappers.zip You need to unzip this into the same folder that the darkwindLobby.jar and the darkwindClient.exe are in. Personally, I found the framerate got worse when using DirectX instead of OpenGL. Can you please provide these again? (the link is broken).  My Vista box will not work(with new or old drivers) in Glide and D3D will not show car textures (but does at least show everything else fine). ......................... vet northernsummer deathrce1 raceL1 deathrceL1 ww ped1 sssc paintball semiprocombat ped2 e2g gwextrav gwped combat1 paintladder elmsautumn gateautumn wv race1 combatL1 pvp1 pvp5 pvp4 zom pvp3 circuit1 pvp2 circuit2 circuit3 ss2fl67 slay2013 storm2013 geek triangle198,98,31 Posted Nov 18, 2008, 11:38 pm

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,781 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 I actually include them as standard in the full download now, I think. The files are called "glu2d3d.dll" and "opengl2d3d.dll"... do you have them? ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted Nov 19, 2008, 8:57 am

Joel Autobaun Joels Bastards Darkwind Guru Deathrace Mafia Faction Group: Sinbinned Posts: 4,598 Joined: Nov 10, 2008 yes i do...oh well. I'll just wait for new drivers. ......................... vet northernsummer deathrce1 raceL1 deathrceL1 ww ped1 sssc paintball semiprocombat ped2 e2g gwextrav gwped combat1 paintladder elmsautumn gateautumn wv race1 combatL1 pvp1 pvp5 pvp4 zom pvp3 circuit1 pvp2 circuit2 circuit3 ss2fl67 slay2013 storm2013 geek triangle198,98,31 Posted Nov 20, 2008, 4:47 am

CreepShowFlo CoffinCrew Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: May 17, 2009 Hi guys. I'm new to the game and I'm having trouble with the graphics drivers that come with Windows Vista. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what drivers I need to play the game. This computer is an e-machine that I bought in December of last year.I've had no problem playing any other games and,i must admit,i'm already hooked on this concept and what i can see of Darkwind already.I simply must play it!!Any assistance any of you can give me would be great,and i would be ever so grateful. Sincerely, CreepShow Flo Posted May 20, 2009, 1:16 am

Mad Mike the mad mad crushers Darkwind Guru Anarchists Faction Group: Subscribers Posts: 2,900 Joined: Aug 1, 2007 get the graphics drivers from the manufacturer of the graphics chip, not microsoft. nvidia and ATI are the most common and their drivers will work. My tests with windows 7 reveled the microsoft drivers DO NOT WORK, you have to get the drivers from the graphics chip manufacturer's website. LOL the spellchecker underlines microsoft with a red line and the suggestion is to capitalize the M and have Microsoft. LOL ......................... vet wv Posted May 20, 2009, 5:15 am

metrocube 12th Street Bangers Darkwind Guru Anarchists Faction Group: Members Posts: 790 Joined: May 1, 2009 What Mad Mike says is true. I know the guy who puts together the NVIDIA driver packages. His advice? NEVER INSTALL THE MICROSOFT-PROVIDED NVIDIA DRIVERS. Always get them directly from www.nvidia.com ......................... vet wv Posted May 20, 2009, 7:39 pm

CreepShowFlo CoffinCrew Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: May 17, 2009 Thanx so much for the help.It's very much appreciated.I'll try the nvidia site now.Wish me luck!!! CreapShow Flo Posted May 22, 2009, 1:42 am

*Grograt* Grograts Gonads Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Marshals Posts: 8,377 Joined: Oct 5, 2008 Hope you get online Creepshow, come back if you have any other problems enough of us here to help you ......................... vet marshal wv community Posted May 22, 2009, 7:35 am

Anexian Shadowen Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: Jun 3, 2009 Hmmmm I'm having some problems, I have an ati hd4650, and the open gl won't let me go past the chat room of the client, and the d3d is all flickery and only shows a grayish area for the cars in the game. The crash report for the open gl which i get eventually sometimes is something about an instruction at and addy trying to read another and Memory could not be "read". and to click ok to terminate program. Note that only the lobby does that and after a race has finished not during the race. Oh, I'm using windows xp pro. Have the latest drivers for the card. Posted Jun 10, 2009, 6:20 am

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