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1.8 demos, missing X3DAudio1_4.dll

by Carl Brunning · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 12/17/2008 (12:10 pm) · 2 replies

Just thought i say when trying to run any of the game demo they all say:

This application has failed to start because X3DAudio1_4.dll was not found. Re-installing the application
may fix this problem


so far i've seen this on XP and Vista 64bit

not had time to find the file but would say you should make sure the next release the demo work
and all files are there

thanks
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Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#1
12/17/2008 (1:31 pm)
That dll is part of the DirectX runtime and isn't supposed to be distrubuted individually.

To get the demos to run you should install the latest DirectX End User Runtime.

If you want to compile the demos you should install the DirectX SDK August 2008. You should avoid installing the November 2008 SDK as it has some known bugs that won't be addressed until March.

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#2
12/17/2008 (1:36 pm)
Or maybe you should install the latest version of DirectX. The SDK's from June 2008 or later contain this file.

They can't include it in the release demo because they're not allowed to ship these dll's, only the redistributable.

Edit: Tom is too fast! :)