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Diziet Sma
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So far as I know, only Vista and Windows 7 support DirectX 10. For XP, DirectX 9.0c is the latest version.KZ9999 wrote:Direct X is actually up to DX10 now, so to get the latest version for your system head to windows update if it supports it.
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
Uuh. Don't expect anything. Your graphics card must be prepared for DX10 too - and currently only the latest cards can really use it at all (with all it's problems). And the wrapper for OpenGL is still not well working (and slow). Since MS has left the OpenGL conferences (2003) they are trying to block it a bit to demonstrate that DX is sooooo much better - nice guys.Diziet Sma wrote:So far as I know, only Vista and Windows 7 support DirectX 10. For XP, DirectX 9.0c is the latest version.KZ9999 wrote:Direct X is actually up to DX10 now, so to get the latest version for your system head to windows update if it supports it.
So we can only say - 'thank you' dear dev-team for a good working game on all platforms.
So far I haven't found anything that fixes the problem - the Intel auto-detect page only looks at the GMA driver which is up to date, and those driver sites didn't have anything. I have to assume the DX 9.0c is current (this is a work PC and we can't use Windows Update), so it looks like Oolite just has some issues running on a GMA4500. Luckily they're pretty minor problems.KZ9999 wrote:Ok. I don't know if you have visited the following pages, if not give them a try.