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TGEA crashes in vista

by Sean H. · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 05/06/2007 (12:32 pm) · 7 replies

I'm having problems running the TGEA demo. I get an error:

"D3Dx failed to load all functions. May need a more recent version of directX."

DirectX version - 10.04
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXSaveSurfaceToFileA
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXCreateVolumeTextureFromFileA
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXCreateTextureFromFileA
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXGetImageInfoFromFileA
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXSaveSurfaceToFileW
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXCreateVolumeTextureFromFileW
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXCreateTextureFromFileW
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXGetImageInfoFromFileW
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXLoadSurfaceFromMemory
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXAssembleShaderFromFileA
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXCompileShaderFromFileA
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXLoadSurfaceFromSurface
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXCreateVolumeTexture
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXCreateTexture
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXLoadVolumeFromMemory
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXSaveTextureToFileInMemory
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXSaveTextureToFileA
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXLoadSurfaceFromFileInMemory
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXSaveSurfaceToFileInMemory
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXVec3Project
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXVec3Unproject
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXMatrixOrthoOffCenterLH
D3DX Loader: DLL bind failed for D3DXMatrixPerspectiveFovRH

I would've thought that version 10.03 would be sufficient. anyone else get this error?

#1
05/06/2007 (12:34 pm)
Vista uses directx 10. TGEA uses directx 9. Thats why.
#2
05/06/2007 (12:38 pm)
No, it should run fine.. There are issues with it freezing and such, but it should run
#3
05/06/2007 (12:43 pm)
Well it's not running at all for me. this system is new and I even downloaded the latest nvidia drivers just in case. still not working.
#4
05/06/2007 (1:02 pm)
I should also mention that I'm using an on-board graphics card. the one which came with my system.
#5
05/07/2007 (3:30 am)
You may need to check the capabilities of the card, also what score do you get for Vista Experience Index, specially the score for graphics?

I got it working on vista but experienced long freezes during editing, this was using a Geforce 7900 GTX GO
#6
05/07/2007 (3:31 am)
Actually, I got that message on my laptop, just download directX and isntall that, it fixed it for me, even though I appeared to have the latest version.
#7
05/11/2007 (10:43 am)
Yes, you must install DX if you haven't already on Vista.