Not a bug if there's an error dialog for it. It is a bug if the dialog text is poorly worded or wrong. Just putting the stuff on the same topic where it belonged. Exactly what I was doing
Embarrased? I think I found a bug. I am making a bug report. Is that not the appropriate forum for it? I'm sorry I don't have a photographic memory so that I can recall the dialog text word for word. Btw, what happened to you rule/suggestion #1? I'm supposed to revive your old thread to respond to you, but you are free to quote an entire post from another thread here?
I have a laptop with an Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME integrated video chip. I know that this is very-low end, but it turns out that the game will run mostly fine as long as I turn down many of the graphic options. (I didn't buy GC2 because it looks pretty. I bought it because of good strategy game-play and AI.) However, when I first installed and updated, I was presented with a seemingly fatal error about DirectX and true-type fonts. I didn't write down the exact text, but it said
kryo: That's a flame? How come I still feel chilly? n0v: ---- Nope. I spent a fortune on this laptop a few years ago because it had tons of ram, HD, CPU, etc. (for the time) and was a killer development machine. What did I need with high-end graphics? The only games I played were TBS like MOO2, SMACX, and GC1. The graphics were more than enough. More importantly, the laptop could handle Visual Studio and other tools I used in my job. The laptop SAVED time (and money) because it
n0v: I shopped at WalMart because they had the CE (with tech poster) for ax: My very first post said 64MB shared. Doesn't anyone read posts? At least you were polite about it, unlike the idiot before you.
Well, I just started a game (all defaults - just click next and done) with CHEAT and did a Ctrl-U after a few turns of nothing but End Turn. Map scrolling and display is fine, although the fog behaves a bit oddly. (Of course, I won't be using CHEAT/Ctrl-U in normal games, so that's not an issue.) I turned off Hardware T&L of course. I may have to turn off more once I play a real game with lots of ships and stuff. I even did all this in windowed mode (1024x768 dual moni
Thanks for the reply. As you can see from my recent post, the game works. I think that is one of the worst dialogs I've seen though. Maybe I should be ranting at MS instead. (Although everybody does that.) If dxdiag says 9.0c, I think most people would assume that means their system (including video) supports 9.0c. Some cards won't allow for the installation of DX9 and are limited to older DX or none at all. But we are reaching the point where you need an IT degree to un
OK, sorry if I got all worked up about wanting a refund. I should have gotten all worked up about this: I install, update, and launch. A dialog tells me that GC2 will not work because my drivers are too old. The FIRST thing I do (before I even acknowledged the dialog) is check drivers and dxdiag. The second thing is to come here and read the posts. All I found was a thread showing that other people use this video just fine. The third thing I do is post here and go on a rant. By
OK, Marc, please tell me where the latest drivers are. Microsoft has no new drivers. Intel has no new drivers. So let me know where to get these magic drivers. That's all there is to it. p.s. Jeff, I'm emailing them too right now. But I figured I would post first because I think this is really, really lame... the box I bought indicates that my computer is fine, and then the game tells me to update my drivers (latest available already) so it can display a font.
I'm going to WalMart to see if they will take GC2 back. The box says "32MB DirectX 9.0c card". I know my video is wimpy - just the built-in 64MB (shared) Intel in this laptop. But dxdiag reports the version as "DirectX 9.0c" on the very first screen. Since dxdiag thinks I have 9.0c and 64MB of vid ram (which is a tiny bit more than the min requirements printed on the box), how am I supposed to figure out that I lack support for a damn font??? That's the error message I
