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pclem
Village Dweller
Joined: 13 Jun 2003
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| DirectX 9.x - a Gothic DISASTER!! |
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This is really pissing me off. Will anybody listen? Gothic 1 and Gothic 2 have a real problem with DirectX 9.x on Windows 98(whatever the version 9.0, 9.0a, etc). If you've got any version of DirectX 9.x, how'se your old version of Gothic 1 getting on??? Down the sewer, I'll bet! In anticipation of Gothic 2 coming out, I was happily playing Gothic 1 over again. Good Game, Huh?? I then made the historic mistake of loading DirectX 9.0 to run a recently released game. Should I worry? All my currently games continued to run OK - oops, except Gothic 1! Shock horror! What's going on? Maybe its a glitch? Gothic 2 will be OK? Pleaaase tell me Gothic 2 will be OK! Nope, Gothic 2 won't run either. Let me guess the problem. Err, DirectX 9.x.
OK consider me simple, I got the latest version of DirectX from Mirosoft website, I got the latest rivers from NVidia (44.03), I prayed twice to Mecca, said three Hail Mary's and what, I still get a blank screen after upteem minutes of PLEASE WAIT LOADING.
I think its time that the guys at PB give us a patch to end this misery. Come on, it can't be that hard, can it????? |
Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:02 am |
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bigkabuto
High Emperor
Joined: 14 Sep 2001
Posts: 591
Location: Holland/Groningen |
DX9 here but not problems with gothic or gothic II all loads fine...nothing wrong.
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:45 am |
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pclem
Village Dweller
Joined: 13 Jun 2003
Posts: 4
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OK, tell me where I'm going wrong. Set up is Athlon 1000Mhtz, 256 Mb RAM, Windows 98, DirectX 9.0a, Detonator 44.03 drivers - Gothic 1 and 2 - forget it!
Same set up, DirectX 8.xx - no problem.
I love the game, I only wish I could play it!! |
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:58 am |
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Irf
High Emperor
Joined: 18 Jul 2002
Posts: 1032
Location: England |
If you think it's definatly directX 9.x why not just go back to 8.1? at least tilly ou finish playing gothic 2
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:08 am |
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Shmaugus
High Emperor
Joined: 20 May 2003
Posts: 493
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ever think of reinstalling directx 9.x?
check it out (link deleted)
Link deleted; Gorath. |
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:16 am |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
Shmaugus, now would be a good time to stop posting this link in the Gothic forums.
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:31 am |
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pclem
Village Dweller
Joined: 13 Jun 2003
Posts: 4
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| Why not go back to DirectX 8.xx, etc |
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Yeah, you're probably right. I should re-config my system to run Gothic 1 and 2 and to hell with then latest game releases. Makes sense, if I only had one game I wanted to play. DirectX 9.xx surely can't be that much of a bummer. I've reloaded umpteem of my old games and they all seem to run OK, except the Gothic series (NOLF2 is a bit dodgy too). I will give in eventually and reload DirectX 8.xx because I like the game so much, but come on, PB can fix this DirectX problem, if pushed. |
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:38 am |
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Xerxes712
High Emperor
Joined: 01 Nov 2002
Posts: 605
Location: Uber die Welt |
Nvidia drivers 4.13.01.2832 'the older version drivers worked better for me' Windows 98SE2 Pentium 3 at 733 Mhz, 393 Meg RAM. DirectX 9.1a or something.
Gothic1 and Gothic 2 demo runs absolutely fine, except I had to turn off fog (cpu can not take it) and limit visual range to 140%. Runs like a dream, except once in a while I need to restart game after 4 hours to flush memory leak somewhere. I really could use a new machine.
I know this, Norton or anti-virus software running on W98 will give me problems and I shut it off while playing the game.
All my games run on this Old Rig and I have hundreds (no kidding, I collect them as a hobby, played only 10% all the way through).
I read somewhere Atholan AMD cpu chips did have a problem with DirectX 9.xx on a website. I do not know what was the exact issues, they were rather obscure. Do a word search on the Net to find articles related to the Intel and Micro$oft conspiracy with DirectX 9 to put down AMD cpu chips.
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:44 am |
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Kiwi Boy
High Emperor
Joined: 03 Jan 2003
Posts: 1086
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quote:
Originally posted by Xerxes712
All my games run on this Old Rig and I have hundreds (no kidding, I collect them as a hobby, played only 10% all the way through).
Oh man, how big is your hard drive?  |
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 3:01 am |
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[PB]Nico
Keeper of the Bugs
Joined: 15 Jul 2001
Posts: 237
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Just to let you know...
We noticed the reports about problems with DirectX 9.0x. But unfortunately we were/are not able to reproduce it. So we have no idea how to fix it, sorry.
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Mon Jun 16, 2003 3:57 am |
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Shifter
Leader of the Senate
Joined: 06 May 2002
Posts: 303
Location: Morrowind |
WinXP w/DX 9.1
Gothic 1 and 2 run fine for me.
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