DX9 and VIA 4.45

[Bandus]

Ok, BCM was working just fine. No problems at all. I installed DirectX9 and updated my VIA drivers and now it won't work anymore. Basically, I'll hit RESTORE and choose the game to restore and it will load up all the systems...and then it will say "Game Loaded Ok" and then...nothing...it just stops there. Suggestions?

Edit: Upon further investigation I managed to get a bit further. I can actually get into the game but it freezes after about 2 seconds or so. This is very familiar to the issues I was having before so I went to my bios and made sure my AGP Aperture was at 64 MB and that my AGP was a 2X and they still were. I'm stumped.

[ 12-22-2002, 12:56 PM: Message edited by: Bandus ]

[nasos073]

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Originally posted by Bandus:

Ok, BCM was working just fine. No problems at all. I installed DirectX9 and...

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I happen to be using the same drivers and DX, and when i saw the topic, I went to try it. I got absolutely no problem at all!!! The game works fine to me. I think we shouldn't blame DX9.0 or BCM about that, not even the new VIA Drivers. Remains of the old drivers might still be inside your system, causing the game to freeze. My best advice: Copy your saves to a partition which OS doesn't use, format your system partition, reinstall windows. First thing to do after windows installation is installing the new drivers before everything else! Alternatively, before getting into such a procedure, disable the sound enhancements by adding to your BCM shortcut the extension /X0. I just saw a SB Live! in your system...

[Bandus]

Reinstall windows. Funny. I wasn't blaming anyone actually. Furthermore, the oddness continues. After making no further changes I, on a whim, tried to fire it up ONE MORE TIME. And well, it worked. I'm throughly baffled. I installed DX9 and VIA, restarted, it freezes. I make no changes, restart again just because I was mad...I walked away. Came back 20 minutes later and try again, and it works. :shrugs: Whatever.

[nasos073]

Now that I remember, I have encountered this with my onboard sound chip. Somehow the sound seems not to be synchronised with the video signal. To be more specific, sound seems to start first. After much observation, I figured out that when this happened (it didn't happen all the time) the game frozed solid. The FAQ section says something about decreasing the sound's acceleration from the dxdiag Control Panel. I think you should try also the dxdiag's sound accel slider bar. After all, It's DirectX 9.0 we are talking about...