Author Topic: Direct-X 8.0a? (Read 911 times)

Wanker · « **on:** June 07, 2001, 10:41:00 AM »

I'm still on DX7a, is it safe to upgrade to DX8 yet?

Nethawk · « **Reply #1 on:** June 07, 2001, 10:42:00 AM »

I've been using it for about a month now, with Nvidia 12.40 Detonator 3 drivers, and not had any problems.

Eagler · « **Reply #2 on:** June 07, 2001, 10:56:00 AM »

Same here with 7.78 drivers and the 3.0 Saitek programming interface without any troubles

Eagler

Maverick · « **Reply #3 on:** June 07, 2001, 12:32:00 PM »

It works just fine with my Voodoo 3 3000 AGP. No probs and I think I picked up a couple of FPS with it.

Mav

SOB · « **Reply #4 on:** June 07, 2001, 02:41:00 PM »

I've been using it without problems since shortly after it came out.

PIII
Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
SB Live! Value

SOB

Wanker · « **Reply #5 on:** June 07, 2001, 04:11:00 PM »

Upgraded to DX8a, and upgraded my Hercules video driver to 7.52, now I'm getting discoed from AH on a cable modem connection, with an accompanying page fault error. Engine noise continues to play after the crash.

Guess I uninstall my 7.52 drivers and go back to 6.35, hopefully that'll do it.

Hercules GeForce DDR-DVI 32MB
SB Live!

*sigh*

[ 06-07-2001: Message edited by: banana ]

bloom25 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 07, 2001, 05:35:00 PM »

Unless you need dx8a for a new game (Tribes 2 etc.) I wouldn't bother "upgrading." At most you will gain 1 fps, but you'll lose it by RW being forced to use wav vs direct sound recording.

Wanker · « **Reply #7 on:** June 08, 2001, 07:59:00 AM »

Well, I got myself mostly out of my pickle. I went back to my 6.35 drivers, and made sure I got rid of all the Nvidia .inf files before I re-installed them, so now at least AH runs.

Funny, but I'm still getting an invalid page fault error, but now only when existing AH, instead of while I was flying.

What's this you say about RW? I'll have to use wav sound now? Holy cow, that is not cool!

I guess it's time to fdisk and format anyways, it's been 9 months. Nothing like a good rebuilding to get all the software back into shape.

Thanks for the input guys, guess that goes to show me how one man's treasure can be another's trash.

[ 06-08-2001: Message edited by: banana ]

BaneX · « **Reply #8 on:** June 08, 2001, 11:05:00 AM »

Yeah RW is causing the page fault error you're getting. Change it to wav recording and it will be gone. Been using directX 8.0a for awhile now myself and no problems.

AMD Athlon 850
ATI Radeon DDR 32mg
Soundblaster Live X-gamer

Bane

[ 06-08-2001: Message edited by: BaneX ]

SOB · « **Reply #9 on:** June 08, 2001, 12:20:00 PM »

RW is running just fine for me with SB Live! Value and DirectSound recording with DX8.0a. I do always open Roger Wilco myself before I run AH though...I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

SOB

Wanker · « **Reply #10 on:** June 09, 2001, 12:02:00 AM »

Bloom and Banex, thanks for the tip on RW, that's solved my page fault error.

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BaneX · « **Reply #11 on:** June 09, 2001, 10:58:00 AM »

Could be SOB I'll have to try it and see what happens.

Bane

Baddawg · « **Reply #12 on:** June 09, 2001, 11:29:00 AM »

Ditto to all the above BTW how bad has changing RW to Wav changed reception and broadcast?

bloom25 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 09, 2001, 02:12:00 PM »

No change in quality that I noticed. The diference is that your sound card can accelerate Direct Sound, so you may be losing some performance going to WAV. That's why I don't recommend going to dx 8a thinking you are going to gain performance.