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Post 1 \| New	Posted January 17th, 2006
Bryan Spence Cranky old Bastard Joined: Sep '05 Posts: 111	Okay, I'm at college at the moment and I'm trying to set up the DirectX 9.0 SDK to run with Visual Studio 6.0. The sample program will compile perfectly but if I run the executable I get the message "Error Creating Direct3D Device". I've set the paths in Visual Studio and included the .lib files which I hoped would fix it but nothing. Any takers? ------------------ Bring back the old days! Go forth and make 2D cars, enjoy the simplicity, the beauty and the triumph. Bring back "The One" / "Car of the Week" / "Smashed Headlight"

Posted January 17th, 2006

Bryan Spence
Cranky old Bastard

Joined: Sep '05
Posts: 111

Okay, I'm at college at the moment and I'm trying to set up the DirectX 9.0 SDK to run with Visual Studio 6.0. The sample program will compile perfectly but if I run the executable I get the message "Error Creating Direct3D Device". I've set the paths in Visual Studio and included the .lib files which I hoped would fix it but nothing.

Any takers?

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Bring back the old days! Go forth and make 2D cars, enjoy the simplicity, the beauty and the triumph.

Bring back "The One" / "Car of the Week" / "Smashed Headlight"

Post 2 \| New	Posted January 17th, 2006
DaDa123 Joined: Aug '03 Posts: 963	Maybe the graphic card that's inside the system does not fully support Direct X 9.0 so therefore you get that error message?

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