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- + Battle Realms Demo +
- + Created by Liquid Entertainment +
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- Topics:
- Go to a particular topic by searching for the three letters next to it.
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- [TSG] 1. Troubleshooting
- [IDX] 2. Installing DirectX 8
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- [TSG] 1. Troubleshooting
-
- +++ The demo Crashes before I can even play!
-
- Game crashes like these are often due to hardware driver problems or
- problems with DirectX. Fortunately, the cause of these crashes can often be
- quickly fixed with new drivers or by changing some settings.
-
- If you are having problems with Windows or programs like Internet Explorer
- crashing, the computer may have more serious problems and may need repair.
-
-
- +++ The demo crashes and the error it gives says something about a DLL.
-
- If the DLL (Dynamic Link Library) has a name with "D3D" or "Direct" in
- it, DirectX 8 might not be correctly installed. To remedy this, please try
- installing DirectX 8. For information on installing DirectX 8, see the
- instructions below.
-
- Even if you have tried to install DirectX 8 before and the DirectX 8
- installer told you it was successful, it might need to try again.
-
- +++ When I play the demo, I play for awhile and it crashes, but I have no
- problems running Windows applications like Internet Explorer or older
- games.
-
- This is often due to old video card drivers. As time goes on and as people
- who make games get better at using video cards, more and more of your video
- card's abilities are used and this can reveal defects in your video drivers
- that, before, were not important. If your video card drivers are more than a
- few months old, they may be causing the game to crash and they should be
- replaced if you want to play Battle Realms or any other new game.
-
- - Replacing video card drivers is not difficult, but you have to be
- patient and follow directions from the card maker carefully for the best
- results. An important step in getting new video card drivers is knowing
- where to go for new drivers and, for that, you have to know who makes the
- video card or who makes the chips used in the card.
-
- For example, if the card has "GeForce" or "Riva TNT" associated with it,
- the manufacturer of the card's chips is Nvidia (www.nvidia.com). Matrox
- makes video cards with the Millennium G400/G455, etc. ATI (www.ati.com)
- makes the "Radeon", the "Rage 128", and "Rage 128 Pro" set. For users of
- the "Voodoo" series of cards (Voodoo 3 and 5 work with Battle Realms),
- 3dfx, the makers of the Voodoo chipsets, is no longer in business, but
- their website (www.3dfx.com) still has the latest drivers.
-
- If you are unable to discern the maker of your graphics chipset, please
- refer to your computer's documentation.
-
- +++ When I play the game, things happen on screen that I know shouldn't be
- happening.
-
- - When buildings, people, or other things look white or really dark, if
- objects flash or do similar strange things, this means that there is a
- problem between your video card and our game. The cause of the problem
- could be your video card drivers on your computer.
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- [IDX] 2. DirectX 8
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- +++ Battle Realms requires DirectX 8 to run properly.
-
- - If you have problems running the Battle Realms demo and you think they
- may be related to DirectX, repeat the following steps to get the latest
- version of Direct X from Microsoft's website.
-
- +++ What if you don't know or aren't sure what version of DirectX you have?
-
- Don't worry, if you run the DirectX installer on a computer that already
- has the current DirectX on it, the installer will NOT damage the existing
- DirectX installation. It might give you newer versions of the DirectX
- files, but it will NOT replace the files on your computer with older files.
-
- Note: ONLY for users of the DirectX Software Development Kit (SDK):
- This is just to remind DX SDK users that, if you have installed
- the Debug version of the DX runtime files, the installer we
- supply may replace these files with the Retail version.
-
- Again, this is just a reminder ONLY for computer programmers who
- are writing programs that use DirectX.
-
- +++ Manual install of DirectX 8:
-
- You can manually install DirectX with a little help from Microsoft's
- website.
-
- Here's how:
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- 1. Visit the Microsoft website (www.microsoft.com/directx) and get the
- latest version from there. Depending on your version of Windows,
- you should download a file named "DX80en" for Windows 98 or ME, or
- one named "DX80NTen" for Windows 2000 or XP.
-
- 2. Save the appropriate file to your computer.
-
- 3. Run the file by double-clicking on the file you downloaded and follow
- the on-screen instructions to installed DirectX.
-
- 5. When the DirectX 8 installer you ran is done, it will usually want to
- reboot the computer. If it doesn't, that means that it didn't replace
- any files. If you have already installed the Battle Realms demo, you
- should be able to run the game.
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