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DirectX 10? Problem running my game...

by Nicolai Dutka · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 04/11/2009 (11:52 pm) · 1 replies

I am the Project Director for my company Archon Games. For our current project, TechnoWizard, I have a current build saved on our SVN server. I am the ONLY one with access to our engine files, ONLY our game folder is shared.

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 with Visual Studio Team 2008 and TGEA 1.8.1.

Our project is based off the "T3D" game example, but I rebuilt the game using our icon and naming so 'T3D.exe' is now 'TechnoWizard.exe'.

Most of my employees run the game just fine, but a couple are experiencing a DirectX related error:


"can't start the aplication can't find X3DAudio1_4.dll. The reinstallation of the aplication may fix the problem"


One of my employees who had DirectX 9.0c went ahead and got DirectX 10, and now the game runs fine.... I haven't yet spoken with the other employee, but the one who installed DirectX 10 and got his working, told the other guy to do the same while I was away on business... SO... I don't know if his is working or not...

When I checked the product page for TGEA:
Windows-based Computers
Minimum Requirements:
Windows XP or Vista
Intel or AMD Processor @ 1 Ghz
256 MB RAM (1GM recommended for Vista)
100% DirectX compatible video card with 128 MB video RAM required
DirectX

Recommended Requirements:
Windows XP or Vista with latest service packs installed
Dual-Core Intel or AMD processor @ 2.0 GHZ or better
2 GB RAM
100% DirectX compatible ATI or nVidia based video card with 256 or more VRAM
DirectX

Apple-based Computers
Minimum Requirements:
OSX 10.5.6
Intel-based Macs only
2 GB RAM
ATI or nVidia shader model 2.0+ video cards with 256 MB video RAM required
XCode version 3.1.2 or better

What version of DirectX is required? Does it depend on what version is installed on the computer that runs the build? I am still learning about C++, so you'll have to forgive my ignorance here...

#1
04/12/2009 (2:31 pm)
Just need to update your directx libraries - don't need directx 10. I'm guessing by installing 10, it updates the other libraries from 9 as well. Just go to microsoft.com/directx, and choose to update directx. It will download a stub installer, then update your directx 9 libraries and all will be well. They stopped doing this by default for 9 with Windows Update so it's a manual thing now