GPL: D3D not working! Help!

I just had to re-format after a virus killed my c:\ so I'm starting from scratch. I have an Athlon 800 with a GF3 Ti200 and had it working fine with GPL before the crash. I had the D3DDevice set to 1, everything else was pretty normal. I have the latest nvidia driver (the one posted on today's website) and I even tried the driver I was using before the format. I'm going into GPL, changing the 3D accelerator to D3D7, pressing the green button, then exiting to desktop, then restarting GPL with no luck. I try changing the D3DDevice to 0, 2, 3, no luck; I try changing the app.ini to D3D7.dll (or whatever it is), no luck; I've reinstalled the D3D7.dll twice, that hasn't changed anything. What is going on? I know my computer can do this, what am I doing wrong? It can't be my computer, it has no faults :-) Are there any specific settings I should try in the Nvidia Direct3D control panel? Should I get rid of the AGP driver that came with my motherboard software? Should I give my computer box a big whack? Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Brook

Oops, I did a reply about 2minutes after my first post, but it didn't show... It was DirectX. Forgot to update it... Thanks! "Brook Halvorson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:gMuK8.4919$[email hidden]... > I just had to re-format after a virus killed my c:\ so I'm starting from > scratch. I have an Athlon 800 with a GF3 Ti200 and had it working finewith

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> GPL before the crash. I had the D3DDevice set to 1, everything else was > pretty normal. I have the latest nvidia driver (the one posted on today's > website) and I even tried the driver I was using before the format. I'm > going into GPL, changing the 3D accelerator to D3D7, pressing the green > button, then exiting to desktop, then restarting GPL with no luck. I try > changing the D3DDevice to 0, 2, 3, no luck; I try changing the app.ini to > D3D7.dll (or whatever it is), no luck; I've reinstalled the D3D7.dll

twice, > that hasn't changed anything. What is going on? I know my computer cando > this, what am I doing wrong? It can't be my computer, it has no faults:-) > Are there any specific settings I should try in the Nvidia Direct3Dcontrol

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> panel? Should I get rid of the AGP driver that came with my motherboard > software? Should I give my computer box a big whack? Any help would be > greatly appreciated. > > TIA, > > Brook > >

On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 15:17:51 -0500, player one <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 19:57:00 GMT, "Brook Halvorson" <[email hidden]> wrote: > >>I just had to re-format after a virus killed my c:\ so I'm starting from >>scratch. I have an Athlon 800 with a GF3 Ti200 and had it working fine with >>GPL before the crash. I had the D3DDevice set to 1, everything else was >>pretty normal. I have the latest nvidia driver (the one posted on today's >>website) and I even tried the driver I was using before the format. I'm >>going into GPL, changing the 3D accelerator to D3D7, pressing the green >>button, then exiting to desktop, then restarting GPL with no luck. I try >>changing the D3DDevice to 0, 2, 3, no luck; I try changing the app.ini to >>D3D7.dll (or whatever it is), no luck; I've reinstalled the D3D7.dll twice, >>that hasn't changed anything. What is going on? I know my computer can do >>this, what am I doing wrong? It can't be my computer, it has no faults :-) >>Are there any specific settings I should try in the Nvidia Direct3D control >>panel? Should I get rid of the AGP driver that came with my motherboard >>software? Should I give my computer box a big whack? Any help would be >>greatly appreciated. >> >>TIA, >> >>Brook >> > >Did you change operating systems? >What version of DX? >What version of video drivers? >What version of sound drivers? >Do other games work? >

Yeah, we can't help you without any answers to these questions. I've found that newer versions of video drivers don't works with GPL, 21.xx are the latest I could get to be functional. Rafe Mc

HI, I've had this problem in the past, the only way i found to resolve it was to change the config entry in app.ini manually then start up and all appears to be ok. Might be the file is read only so it won't update it. hope it helps, mark...........