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I've been away from RAS for a while also.  So when I saw the recent post
about GTL being a must have and being at Best Buy for $19.95 I went down and
bought it.  To me, the promise of being able to race a GT-40 outweighed the
StarForce issue.  However, I can't run GTL Config because I get a d3d9.dll
error.  Do I really need DX9?  The box says DX8.1 as minimum, which is what
I have installed.  My system is a AMD XP cpu, Asus A7N8X Deluxe MB, and a
Ti4200 Video card.  OS is XP Home.  Will the Ti4200 support DX9?  Thanks for
any help.

-Tony-

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the error is:

"D3d9.dll cannot be found. Re-installing the application might solve the
problem"

I tried reinstalling, but get the same error, d3d9.dll cannot be found.

dave henrie

Andi.

GTL Config will not run.  I did install DX9.0c, which didn't help.  However,
I did not have time to reinstall the game AFTER installing DX9.  I'll try
that when I get home from work.  As a note, before I installed the full DX9,
I downloaded the missing .dll file and stuck it in the GTL root directory.
This solved the missing d3d9.dll error message, but now I get another error
message, something about an incorrect entry point.  I'll try re-installing
the game to see what happens.  Thanks!

Andi.

But the box says it works with DX8.1.  Any idea why I'm having to install
DX9?  Is the game worth the trouble, considering StarForce and all?  Thanks
again.

You should always use the latest directx version, just wait a while after
new version release so that they (MS) can release a fixed version out, or
that you can hear about possible bugs. After a month it usually is very safe
to install.. and dx9 has been out for ages now.

I think the box means that GTL will work on minimum DX8.1 hardware. "system
requirements: blaa blaa... DX8.1 compatible video card/64MB, dx8.1
compatible sound card..."

I'm not surprised that it would need DX9 binaries to run (even in DX8 mode).

--
Mika Takala

mode).

I see.  Well, I REALLY hope it works because I'm dying to try the GT40 and
also the GT-350 Mustang.  http://pages.prodigy.net/tjester/index.html  I
have a pretty good idea of how these cars behave. The GT-350 that is, the
GT40 I can only imagine  :-)

The box says it works with a DX 8.1 or better 'graphics card'. Using
the latest version of DX is somewhat of a given.

I'm glad to hear it.  In the old days, a Direct X upgrade was usually a
formula for trouble.  "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" kinda thing.

-Tony-

SB

from less-than-stellar

Wow! What a nightmare.  Installing DX9 did allow me to run GTL Config, so I
set the shader to DX8, but starting the game sends the computer into a
reboot.  The MS error reports show the Nvidia video drivers as causing the

guess I screwed up somewhere pretty bad uninstalling the old drivers and had
to do a system restore.  Fortunately I set a restore point before I
installed DX9.  I'm now getting Corrupted Computer errors I assume as a
result of installing GTL.  I'll eventually get it all sorted out.  I sure
hope it's worth it!  If I only had the money I'd upgrade and start over
fresh, but that's not possible right now.  Gotta make this work for now...

-Tony-

COuple of things to do after you "restored" the system, one is to install
dx9, because right now the dll's & other files are there on your harddrive,
but the info that XP needs is not, Due to restore  {unless you have XP Pro
which actually makes backups & copies *all* files to a compressed file to
restore the machine...  The XP home version just more or less saves a couple
KEY XP files, and the registry hives.

so install direct X9

then to get going faster, disable the antivirus, if you are scared at all
about a virus creeping in while installing the game, you could/should
disable the network connection (I just disable it in XP), or can by turning
off the modem, removing the cat5 wire, etc momentarily.

 install the game, make sure it works fine, if not there is a problem with
the starforce (probably exists from demo, or previoulsy installed game) at
the gtlegends.com website there is a link to the fix for this I believe...

So, you will have to at least enable networking connection, browse to the
website (not a good time to check email or other browsing IMHO...}

At this point, if all is still good, get the patch while you are at the
gtlegends site.
Then, turn back on the antivirus, for performance reasons I suggest turning
it off while runing the game especially offline.  Now at this point the AV
(mines computer associates, given to SBC DSL customers {absolute shit
btw...} it will not run with virus enabled by defaults, to keep it running,
I then had to make a "exception rule" for the GTL.exe in the AV setup
software...  all is good now the kids can play and not have to disable av
then forget (dont they always?)

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