i heard somewhere that Amigamerlin 3.0 (btw thanks Amigamerlin and the whole team) was supposed to have directx 9 support, so I've been hanging onto midnight club 2, which I bought before i found out it required dx9 and I was going to return it. Does AM 3.0 have full directx 9 support, or is it only compliance like the Voodoolizer 1.05.00 drivers? And if anyone can tell me exactly how to make this game work, it would be awesome.
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Quotei heard somewhere that Amigamerlin 3.0 (btw thanks Amigamerlin and the whole team) was supposed to have directx 9 support, so I've been hanging onto midnight club 2, which I bought before i found out it required dx9 and I was going to return it. Does AM 3.0 have full directx 9 support, or is it only compliance like the Voodoolizer 1.05.00 drivers? And if anyone can tell me exactly how to make this game work, it would be awesome.
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I'm gonna quote you just in case you decide to edit your crap. You're really consistent when it comes to making yourself look bad. Full dx9 support and full dx9 compliance is the same thing. Yes, the Amigas are dx9 compatible, but they're not compiant. The R3xx and the NV3x chips are fully supported by dx9, i.e. PS/VS 2.0 . The Voodoo 5 is bearly a dx6 card. It's a dx5 card to be exact. You might wanna try using 3danalyze,
http://www.tommti-systems.de/start.html
to try getting this game to work. It most probably requires
HW TnL. And no, Geometry Assist will not work (https://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ezboard.com%2Fintl%2Faenglish%2Fimages%2Femoticons%2Flaugh.gif&hash=b6f5dbfc7271c2fffe303da9709b5f253789db31)
And I don't think they'll let you return it, cd copying and all...
lecram, you just dont stop, do you? when i said compliance, i meant that directx9 will recognize the card, but games using directx9 will not run or will run only when using a directx 8.7 or 7 emulator, for lack of a better term, like 3d-analyze. now, getting back to the subject, i reinstalled directx 9 and midnight club 2 will now start up and allow me into the menu, but whenever i try to run a race or change the video settigs, it will crash. does anyone know how to remedy this?
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that would be perhaps easier for people if you write what this game needs or/and if you have a link ;)
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terribly sorry i thought the title pretty much gave it away. from the game readme file:
QuoteMinimum Hardware Requirements
800 MHz Intel Pentium III or 800 MHz AMD Athlon
or 1.2GHz Intel Celeron or 1.2 GHz AMD Duron processor
128 MB of RAM
4 speed CD / DVD drive
1400 MB of free hard disk space
32 MB video card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers
("GeForce2"/"Radeon 8500" or better)
Sound Card
Keyboard
Mouse
This game also requires 32bpp color, so i have turned on the "Force 32bpp Rendering" option in the 3dfx tools. My problem is that when the game goes to render cars (im not sure about other 3d objects), it just plain closes (to the desktop). i have tried some of the options in 3d analyze, but i havent had any luck so far.
btw, the place i bought it from will allow you to return games for store credit for 14 days after the date of purchase. and lecram, the jokes on you, im using AM 3.0 so Geo assist aint available (just MMX and 3DNOW):D
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You still don't get it do you? That option is USELESS!!! It won't help you any bit in that game. Like I said before, use 3da.
And, you ever hear of sarcasm?
QuoteOriginally posted by amp_man
i have tried some of the options in 3d analyze, but i havent had any luck so far.
i guess i stated that incorrectly: i have tried nearly every option in "3da" as you call it, and have tried many combonations of options, without any luck so far.
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QuoteOriginally posted by lecram25
You still don't get it do you? That option is USELESS!!! It won't help you any bit in that game. Like I said before, use 3da.
And, you ever hear of sarcasm?
Naw dude -- could you explain it to me.....talk slowly so I can understand.
People, I think I've worked out the clone issue...
cpdubal=BlacK_Out=amp_man
He uses BlacK_Out more often cause he feels it's the most credible looking/sounding name...
"people. . . ." nice statment there buddyyeee....It's called a sentence structure, try it sometime.
You are like a clown, you always makes me laugh and everything you do is full of folly [:o)][:o)]
Yer slaying me....I can't stop laughing... thanks Crammit #25, Ineeded that:D
"People. . . " nice statement. It's called a "sentence structure" try it some time
The only ID that belongs to me is the on you see on your screen...Ya crosseyed ...err sumptin'.... jeezeez Jeb!
If you play a Microsoft CD backward you can hear satanic messages..... but that's nothing, if you play it forward it will install Windows.
Quote"people. . . ." nice statment there buddyyeee....It's called a sentence structure, try it sometime.
You are like a clown, you always makes me laugh and everything you do is full of folly
Yer slaying me....I can't stop laughing... thanks Crammit #25, Ineeded that
"People. . . " nice statement. It's called a "sentence structure" try it some time
The only ID that belongs to me is the on you see on your screen...Ya crosseyed ...err sumptin'.... jeezeez Jeb!
If you play a Microsoft CD backward you can hear satanic messages..... but that's nothing, if you play it forward it will install Windows.
This guy speaks for himself. cpdubal/BlacK_Out, is there a need to repeat yourself? And don't "buddyyeee" me, I'm not your friend...
EDIT: I've alread made my point on the whole cpdubal/BlacK_Out thing.
ALL OF HIS POSTS TURNED INTO YOURS!!! i.e. his post counts and everything. Anyone wanna explain how this is possible?
Aww......mann...I thought we were GOOD buddies....oh -- shucky darn.....what AM I to doo? Yipes didn't wanna damage that relationship.....oh....my....beating heart.......OHHHH BILLLLLY
I speak for my self?? REALLY?? WOW! SWEET --- FREEEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!
I can speak for myself -- YES!! WHOO HOO!! WHOO HOO!! NO LIMITS people!
Non-the-less I don't care if you don't belive me but the amp_man ID is not mine.
oh.....I said....."people"
Now I am as COOL as you.
QuoteOriginally posted by lecram25
People, I think I've worked out the clone issue...
cpdubal=BlacK_Out=amp_man
He uses BlacK_Out more often cause he feels it's the most credible looking/sounding name...
okay, I am not Black_out and i dont know what gives you that impression. do you think everyone who disagrees with you (or blantently tells you that you're wrong) is the same person? Anyways, i can see why cpdubal changed his name -
he was tired of you following him around and harrasing him at every opportunity! I'm looking for help with a game, not a nim-witted thirteen-year-old like lecram to make dumb suggestions without even reading my post, where it states that I've already tried it. If you think you can help me to get midnight club 2 running, then please, post. If you're just looking to fight, I will put my email address in my info and you can send it there. You two (and myself with these responses) are wasting valuable forum space and moderator's time. Please, take it elsewhere or just
drop it
EDIT: lecram, before you go accusing me of making some major change by editing my post, it's just because i noticed a few spelling and grammer errors, something you appear to know very little about, IMOHO
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Windows XP Pro|Athlon XP 1800+|Voodoo 5 5500 AGP|MSI K7T266-A|768MB DDR 2700 RAM|SonicEdge 5.1 Sound Card
There was some discussion of this on the x3dfx forums:
http://pub43.ezboard.com/fx3dfxfrm2.showMessage?topicID=3057.topic
Basically saying that it is compatible with DirectX 9 but you can't get any 3D acceleration from it. I have searched the 'net for answers but found jack other than suggestions to use the force 32 Bit rendering, but I don't know what good that will really do.
Looks like we need someone from the AmigaMerlin team to fill us in on the whole DirectX9 thing, as I would like to know as well.
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Last thing I will say about the situation(s) getting outta hand, yeah I changed my ID for the very reasons amp_man said, to the T. And a certain someone (lecram) drove me a little nutty with getting on my back and all I wanted was a peacfull conversation. So I figured I'd see how he liked it, gave it back, unfortunatley that got me banned for a bit. Sorry to anyone who's read this crud so far.[V] So, that is where I will leave that topic at. I will not fill up the forum anymore with garbage relating to this.
Thanks Black_Out for the effort (and an actually useful post, it's the first one for this topic! even if it is disappointing). I'm about ready to give up on this whole 3dfx ****
Quotethat would be perhaps easier for people if you write what this game needs or/and if you have a link
Qui andate (http://www.tgmonline.it/download/demo/luglio2003/20030718103824)
QuoteOriginally posted by amp_man
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I reinstalled directx 9 and midnight club 2 will now start up and allow me into the menu, but whenever i try to run a race or change the video settigs, it will crash. does anyone know how to remedy this?
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I ehh..... believe that is the issue.
Amp_man
If you have two system, do what I do -- run one with a Radeon (or in my case a geforce - soon to change!) and the other with your 3Dfx board - that way what one system can't run the other can.
Otherwise I'd ask one of the driver programmers to see if this is solvable, I'd hate to hear that you tossed your 3Dfx card --- though I can understand becuase it's been a pain in the ass getting stuff to work correctly 1/2 the time ever since 3Dfx took a dive inthe crapper.
I have four systems (not all set up) but none of my other systems meet the minimum requirements. I will NEVER toss the 3dfx card, i'm consiering building a new system anyways, this one has a couple issues that would cost too much to screw around with, but i don't have the cash and i really wanna play this game i was over to a friend's house the other day and it looked awesome on his PS2.
Cool.:D
Yeah -- it certainly has been a pain in the ass when it comes to the new stuff - I gues then only thing that I can suggest is to run GLide based games as well as DirectX 7 (and below), and OpenGL 1.2 (and below) games on your 3Dfx system and run the new stuff on an Nvidia or ATI card that will run it decently (or at ll for that matter).
At least untill the AmigaMerlin team can find a way to provide some workaround for these issues via newer driver sets in the future, which I have a feeling, given enough time that just may happen.
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Okay, thanks for the help guys, but still no luck. I'm ordering a new video card right now, that should hopefully fix this issue.