Irrlicht Engine

I've tried multiple old sdks; i can only get dx9 to work (that wasn't working either when i first posted; don't know what i did wrong but i tried again and it worked). Irrlicht no longer tells me that directx8 support was not compiled into the dll, it just crashes.

As for why Microsoft removed it ...

I can't get this to work. The DLL compiles without any errors but my program crashes when I try to use either version of directX (opengl and the software renderers work fine). It tells me that DirectX support was not compiled into the DLL.

I'm using:
CodeBlocks 1.0 Release Candidate 2
Irrlicht 1.2 ...

I forgot that I had to "createDevice" before using device!

Thanks for your help, especially the suggestion to use assert

I'm working on a game, and I want it to be able to save and load settings using an xml file. The program crashes whenever I run it (it compiles fine), and CodeBlocks says the problem is in this line:


IXMLWriter *configWriter = device->getFileSystem()->createXMLWriter(device->getFileSystem ...

Thanks, I'll check it out

anybody?

anybody?