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DVA=0 in Win.ini, will cause Torque/Tribes2/Return to Castle Wol

by Bruce Wallace · in Torque Game Engine · 01/12/2002 (11:57 am) · 3 replies

This isnt really a bug of the engine, but more of a Warning for those who didnt know(Includes me untill lastnight.).

I didnt see this warning posted anywhere and thought people should be aware that this setting will cause Torque and any game made with it to fail to reconize openGL.

I just found this out after giving up months ago on another machine of mine. I came across this In RTCW support. And found it effects Tribes2/Torque also.

Deleting:
DVA = 0 From win.ini [Drawdib] section fixed All 3 games instantly.

Any way we can work around this? Or perhaps we could scan the win.ini for this while installing our games.
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Torque Owner Desmond Fletcher
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#1
01/12/2002 (1:23 pm)
What does DVA mean? And what puts this setting in the win.ini? It's not on my system...so I'm curious how it got set that way on yours.

Torque 3D Owner Bruce Wallace
#2
01/14/2002 (3:37 am)
This is a quote from the support page that helped me figure out the problem, while not Torque specific it also affects all Torque/Tribes2 games.

Quote:

If you do not see the DVA=0 line under the [DrawDib] section, then this is not the cause of your problem. DVA stands for Direct Video Access, and is commonly set to 0 to fix issues with older games or video problems with old software. Unfortunately it causes Return to Castle Wolfenstein to not recognize OpenGL support on your system as well. The only way to fix this is to remove that line. This should not affect anything on your system.



Torque 3D Owner Bruce Wallace
#3
03/30/2002 (3:03 am)
This still causes Torque to crash when loading, just bumping it up to make people aware. It no longer causes a UE but will crash leaving the dos box open.