TRU: What does it take?

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>>I downloaded the demo (to make sure the game would work before I bought
>>it).
>> It doesn't work. The Radeon 9000 is not listed as "supported".
>>
>> Is there any way to make it work?
>> What does it mean: "Failed to initialize Direc3D with current settings."
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> Minimum on DVD case is shown as nVidia 6800, ATI X1600+, which I guess is
> two generations newer than your card?
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> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081031182044AAvrUBs
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TR Anniversary worked fine ... a bit of stuttering at scene changes, but
otherwise fine.
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>I downloaded the demo (to make sure the game would work before I bought
>it).
> It doesn't work. The Radeon 9000 is not listed as "supported".
>
> Is there any way to make it work?
> What does it mean: "Failed to initialize Direc3D with current settings."
>
Needs to be running DirectX 9.0c

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> TR Anniversary worked fine ... a bit of stuttering at scene changes, but
> otherwise fine.

Anniversary's minimum requirements were GeForce 3Ti or Radeon 9 series. I
don't know much about the ATI range, but the GeForce 3Ti is much further
down the scale than the 6800 card for Underworld.

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>>I downloaded the demo (to make sure the game would work before I bought
>>it). What does it mean: "Failed to initialize Direc3D with current
>>settings."
>>
> Needs to be running DirectX 9.0c

I have that.
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>> TR Anniversary worked fine ... a bit of stuttering at scene changes, but
>> otherwise fine.
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> Anniversary's minimum requirements were GeForce 3Ti or Radeon 9 series. I
> don't know much about the ATI range, but the GeForce 3Ti is much further
> down the scale than the 6800 card for Underworld.
>
> JW
>
Timewise, the GF 3 series is about parr with the original Radeon series, the
Radeon 7000. At the time AoD was coming out, DX9 was top end graphics. The
GF 3 Ti series was old history by then with DX7, replaced by the GF4 Ti 4xxx
series for DX8, then the FX 5xxx series for (partial) DX9 capability. The
Radeon 8xxx series is the DX8 and Radeon 9xxx series the DX9. I started off
TR Legend with a GF 6800 and feel that series was minimal for Legend. The
GF 6xxx series was the first nVidia cards with full DX9 compatibility.
Legend, Anniversary and Underworld are all DX9.0c games, which is the latest
available for XP. Vista is DX10 supposedly.
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>>> TR Anniversary worked fine ... a bit of stuttering at scene changes, but
>>> otherwise fine.
>>
>> Anniversary's minimum requirements were GeForce 3Ti or Radeon 9 series. I
>> don't know much about the ATI range, but the GeForce 3Ti is much further
>> down the scale than the 6800 card for Underworld.

>>
> Timewise, the GF 3 series is about parr with the original Radeon series,
> the Radeon 7000. At the time AoD was coming out, DX9 was top end graphics.
> The GF 3 Ti series was old history by then with DX7, replaced by the GF4
> Ti 4xxx series for DX8, then the FX 5xxx series for (partial) DX9
> capability. The Radeon 8xxx series is the DX8 and Radeon 9xxx series the
> DX9. I started off TR Legend with a GF 6800 and feel that series was
> minimal for Legend. The GF 6xxx series was the first nVidia cards with
> full DX9 compatibility.
> Legend, Anniversary and Underworld are all DX9.0c games, which is the
> latest available for XP. Vista is DX10 supposedly.

But why won't my Radeon 9000 work?
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>>> "Alfred Einstein" <lhorwinkle.RemoveThis@humanoid.net> wrote in message
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>>>> TR Anniversary worked fine ... a bit of stuttering at scene changes,
>>>> but otherwise fine.
>>>
>>> Anniversary's minimum requirements were GeForce 3Ti or Radeon 9 series.
>>> I don't know much about the ATI range, but the GeForce 3Ti is much
>>> further down the scale than the 6800 card for Underworld.
>
>>>
>> Timewise, the GF 3 series is about parr with the original Radeon series,
>> the Radeon 7000. At the time AoD was coming out, DX9 was top end
>> graphics. The GF 3 Ti series was old history by then with DX7, replaced
>> by the GF4 Ti 4xxx series for DX8, then the FX 5xxx series for (partial)
>> DX9 capability. The Radeon 8xxx series is the DX8 and Radeon 9xxx series
>> the DX9. I started off TR Legend with a GF 6800 and feel that series was
>> minimal for Legend. The GF 6xxx series was the first nVidia cards with
>> full DX9 compatibility.
>> Legend, Anniversary and Underworld are all DX9.0c games, which is the
>> latest available for XP. Vista is DX10 supposedly.
>
> But why won't my Radeon 9000 work?
>
I don't know. On the ATI side the 9000 is the lowest spec card that will
work. Which tells me that everything concerning it should be up to date.
DX 9.0c and Catalyst drivers. The error you showed makes me think
definitely DX error. Did Underworld do an update to DX9 when you installed
it?
McG.
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Alfred Einstein wrote:
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>> "Alfred Einstein" <lhorwinkle RemoveThis @humanoid.net> wrote in message
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>>> I downloaded the demo (to make sure the game would work before I bought
>>> it). What does it mean: "Failed to initialize Direc3D with current
>>> settings."
>>>
>> Needs to be running DirectX 9.0c
>
> I have that.

might be the shader, I had to get rid of ati radeon 9800 Pro when I
got Dirt which required shader version 3 ...

erik
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