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Corsican
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 Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject: Unable to Initialize DirectX??? |
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TG I'm able to play on my home system!  But my on my Sony laptop I keep getting an 'Unable to Initialize DirectX' when starting. I've downloaded the newest version (DirectX 9.0c) and run dxdiag and it seems to test fine until I try playing Pirates! ???
Do I not have enough of a vid card? I'ts a VIAO P3 994MHz/256MB. How do I check what kind of vid card is on my laptop? Anybody else have any suggestions??
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PiratesFan
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Uninstall directX and then install the version of the CD or DVD and see if that helps |
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Firaxis_Barry
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Unable to Initialize DirectX??? |
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| Corsican wrote: | TG I'm able to play on my home system! But my on my Sony laptop I keep getting an 'Unable to Initialize DirectX' when starting. I've downloaded the newest version (DirectX 9.0c) and run dxdiag and it seems to test fine until I try playing Pirates! ???
Do I not have enough of a vid card? I'ts a VIAO P3 994MHz/256MB. How do I check what kind of vid card is on my laptop? Anybody else have any suggestions?? |
We had a similar problem with one of our machines and it turned out we needed to find a motherboard update online. You may want to check the Sony support pages and see if there is something available.
-Barry
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Corsican
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Thanks FB and PF! I'll do that when I can get off my home sys playing the game! You are giving me osme hope here, spend half my time on the road and it's been kind of a convienance..home playojng the game and on the road looking over the Forums.
I could help more of the online questions but there are so many more qualified.
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Max
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:39 pm Post subject: Is your graphics card running at full hardware acceleration? |
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I had the same problem as you - then realised that I still had my graphics card to only do minimal acceleration as a leftover from some other game.
So I changed it to maximum acceleration, and the game ran fine. |
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Corsican
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Good suggestion Max, how do I do that, specifically? Any help would be appreciated!
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rupertlittlebear
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| PiratesFan wrote: | | Uninstall directX and then install the version of the CD or DVD and see if that helps |
I'm game. Any Suggestions? How do you uninstall Directx anyway? |
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