Re: Powerslide... no go on DirectX 8.0?

Powerslide runs fine on my PC with Direct X 7.0a. I don't have DX8, so I can't confirm your problem there. Have you patched powerslide? I believe there were at lease a couple of patches that Ratbag put out for it. Powerslide is BIG fun! I hope you get it running. :) -Paul Western States Racing League www.wsrl.n3.net Ice D <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3a2ecbeb$0$29517@reader3... > Just bought an old copy of Powerslide, really, reeeeally cheap (impossible > *not* to buy it at that price). Anyway, to cut a short story even shorter: > it doesn't work on my system (system hangs in the menu, can't even > 'ctrl-alt-del' my way out). And I have a strong feeling it's because of > DirectX 8.0, because I remember reading (on Deja.com) that it didn't runon

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> DirectX 7.0. > > I'm not about to downgrade to DirectX 6.0, just for this game. So, any > suggestions? Or could I just flip back and forth different versions of > DirectX, without any trouble? > > Thanks, Ice D > > >

Just bought an old copy of Powerslide, really, reeeeally cheap (impossible *not* to buy it at that price). Anyway, to cut a short story even shorter: it doesn't work on my system (system hangs in the menu, can't even 'ctrl-alt-del' my way out). And I have a strong feeling it's because of DirectX 8.0, because I remember reading (on Deja.com) that it didn't run on DirectX 7.0. I'm not about to downgrade to DirectX 6.0, just for this game. So, any suggestions? Or could I just flip back and forth different versions of DirectX, without any trouble? Thanks, Ice D

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:29:33 +0100, "Ice D" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Just bought an old copy of Powerslide, really, reeeeally cheap (impossible >*not* to buy it at that price). Anyway, to cut a short story even shorter: >it doesn't work on my system (system hangs in the menu, can't even >'ctrl-alt-del' my way out). And I have a strong feeling it's because of >DirectX 8.0, because I remember reading (on Deja.com) that it didn't run on >DirectX 7.0. > >I'm not about to downgrade to DirectX 6.0, just for this game. So, any >suggestions? Or could I just flip back and forth different versions of >DirectX, without any trouble?

runs in DX8 here just fine. Make sure you have it patcched to the latest version. ~daxe

Patched it, but the game still froze in the menu... Just one of those things I guess. Ice D "Ice D" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3a2ecbeb$0$29517@reader3... > Just bought an old copy of Powerslide, really, reeeeally cheap (impossible > *not* to buy it at that price). Anyway, to cut a short story even shorter: > it doesn't work on my system (system hangs in the menu, can't even > 'ctrl-alt-del' my way out). And I have a strong feeling it's because of > DirectX 8.0, because I remember reading (on Deja.com) that it didn't runon > DirectX 7.0. > > I'm not about to downgrade to DirectX 6.0, just for this game. So, any > suggestions? Or could I just flip back and forth different versions of > DirectX, without any trouble?