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Geek Culture / Upgrade 5.1 killed my DarkBASIC PORFFESONAL!!!!! AGGGHHHHHHHh

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Megaton Cat
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Well I tryed downloading upgrade 5, 3 times the past month (due to sluggish farterates in DBP) evertime it finished it told me the file is courupt, finally I tryed it again and it worked. After installing it everything stoped working! No examples no projects, nothing, but the game still plays all its music and sound and appears to bo running in the task bar when i compile but nothing shows up! I have emailed to the game creators with this but got nothing but a long computer generated reply babbling some thing about no Directx 9 or crappy videocard yet I gave em all my sys spec. So since that isnt very helpful maybe one of u can help?

my specs in case u need to know are:

Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz
ATI Radeon 9200 128MB
256 RAM
80GB harddrive

thanks!

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Jess T
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Posted: 8th Nov 2003 15:00
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You need the latest DirectX 9 version..

Youalso need all the latest Video drivers for your vid card, and i suggest just updating all the drivers on your computer (good to do from time-to-time)

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Megaton Cat
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but the latest verison is Direct x 9 and I got that long ago! So u think I have to update my Radeon 9200 drivers? Ok ill try that.

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 8th Nov 2003 16:53
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Have you got 9.1b though ? And are you using the latest nVidia drivers ? Aside from that the only thing I can suggest is that you've got a problem with your system.


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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 8th Nov 2003 17:06
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lol not sure how useful the latest Forceware would be to a Radeon user, but you might get better compatibility
Cat 3.9 is out, but bewarned there is quite a speed drop


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True - forgot he had an ATI...


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Oh, interesting. When did they stop their Detonator line? Perhaps the bad jokes about it finally got tot them

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 9th Nov 2003 09:08 Edited at: 9th Nov 2003 09:11
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Quote: "Have you got 9.1b though ?"


9.1b? Is that out? the latest I see is 9.

EDIT:
mope cant find it anywhere on the direct x site, can I have a link please?

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Posted: 9th Nov 2003 09:18
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dx 9.0b is at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=141D5F9E-07C1-462A-BAEF-5EAB5C851CF5&displaylang=en

this is the web setup version. If you want the full dload to install yourself cruise around on ms site for it

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 9th Nov 2003 10:52
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no no no NO!!!!
The coding area said direct x 9.1b!! Does no one reaad my posts!?! I have directx 9!!

p.s very sorry if I sound a bit crazy but its 3:51 a.m and I hadent coded in almost 2 days.

thanks

p.s again maybe its my uncomfortable chair or the fact that I been up half the night trying to get this thng to work but I hear arguing going on inside my computer.....am I going insane?

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Posted: 9th Nov 2003 11:41
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Seriously, update your directX to 9.0b (TCA made a mistake, it is only up to 9.0b, not 9.1b... lol...), then, if that doesn't fix anything, get ALL the latest drivers for your computer... except that one that Raven told you to stay away from... lol...

But, yeah, that is how your compatablility issue was solved for so many other users, it's not funny... well, mabey it's a bit funny, but still, you get me, right?...


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Yes, even a genius like me does make the occasional mistake - I know it'll be a giant shock to most of you, but there you go...


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oh.
9.0b? B? I dont have B. I'll get it now. (currently 5:01 a.m am I going to sleep at all this week?

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Its supposed to fix a few bugs in 9.0 - always good to have the latest version anyway.


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1:55 min left for installation.....

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thats one hour and 55 min btw
not 1 min and 55 sec

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well looking at webpages while downloading is stupid :-p. If thats what your doing anyway..I dont get the new direct X unless its the final.


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lmao, just going over your first post megaton... and when you said:

Quote: "farterates"


i assume you meant framerates? Not farterates? Lol...

Sorry, just had to say something... too good of an opertunity to pass up really... lol...


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Megaton Cat
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lol i understand. My typing does suck when i try to do it fast.
Well anywy i got DirectX 9.0b and it worked!! Thanks for helping everyone!

p.s although it screwed the shi* out of my code.
Cllision seemed to have vanished for some reason and he alien model is all white.

thanks again

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Posted: 9th Nov 2003 14:41
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wow wat a framerate leap
u ppl werent kidding.

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Posted: 9th Nov 2003 14:43
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no backup of your code? painful

but yeah, if you have a problem always try and upgrade directx and your graphics card drivers, then if that doesn't work, scream.

it would always be recommended that you updated directx before updating darkbasic, so if you get any more screw-ups, give darkbasic a total reinstall from scratch.


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Posted: 9th Nov 2003 16:19
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will do.

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"Cat 3.9 is out, but bewarned there is quite a speed drop"
Acutally there isnt a speed drop. Cat 3.9 are almost identical to 3.8. I personally have done 3dmark 03 tests and checked FPS differences in ET. No difference to speak of.

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Absolutely no speed drop with 3.9. But it has nice new features and fixed some bugs in the Halo demo. I know my

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