The demos crash. What am I doing wrong?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:02 pm

HelloWorld.exe and CustomSceneNode run ok. All the others say 'Error initialising Direct3D'. Yet D3D works fine for games on my system. What's the problem?

I'm using:
- Win98SE
- DX8 installed
- Duron 1.1GHz processor
- generic GeForce 2 MX.

PS. I tried to search the forum for this error but it crashed in search.php

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:35 pm

Never mind, it was just that I had DX 8.0 instead of 8.1. Upgrading fixed it. It would be nice to have a better error message rather than a crash though.

niko · Post by **niko** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:46 am

The examples do not check if the device was not initialized, for making the tutorials easier to understand. That's why they crash if the engine is not able to start up the renderer. Sorry.

The Cusp · Post by **The Cusp** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:13 am

I\m having the same problem using directx 9.0. The example compile but when i run i get "Warning: DirectX driver was notcompiled into this dll. Try opengl"

Any ideas on what i can do to get these example work?

Robomaniac · Post by **Robomaniac** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:44 am

Most likely you are using Dev C++ (right), if so, you need to modify the engine slightly to get directx to work in it.

THe CUsp · Post by **THe CUsp** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:44 am

ok, after further searching, it appears irrlicht is not compatible with dx9, only dx8.1

So it looks like i'll bone up on my other skills such as creating 3d chars and such while i anxiously away the new release