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Wintermute Engine => Technical forum => Topic started by: hydrophobia on November 08, 2005, 11:09:18 PM

Title: Where r u guys? I Need HELP!!!
Post by: hydrophobia on November 08, 2005, 11:09:18 PM

Hello ,... How r u guys ?
1st of all I wanna thank u for this GREAT engine ... :)

and I need some help , please ..

I have a problem everytime I start a new project with "WME" ,an error msg say the following :

"error initializing accelerated renderer. Sticking back to software..."
and the character look low quality ..

by the way , I don't have this error before ,.. :-\

*info: I have WindowsXP proffesional sp1 installed , Graphic Card is "invidia GeForce FX 5700" , DirectX 9.0c ...

what I can to do for solving this problem ??

and thank u very much in advence ... ;)

Title: Re: Where r u guys? I Need HELP!!!
Post by: Mnemonic on November 08, 2005, 11:15:26 PM

Try reinstalling the display drivers (you can download the latest ForceWare from nvidia's website). They are probably not installed correctly for some reason.

Title: Re: Where r u guys? I Need HELP!!!
Post by: hydrophobia on November 09, 2005, 10:16:25 AM

I try reinstalling the driver that I have , but it didn't work ..

so I'll download the lastset driver (soo big  :'( ) and I'll try ...

thank you very much my friend  :D  ::beer

Title: Re: Where r u guys? I Need HELP!!!
Post by: hydrophobia on November 09, 2005, 01:17:30 PM

it works !!!!  ;D thak u very much ... ;)

Title: Re: Where r u guys? I Need HELP!!!
Post by: gbol on July 28, 2009, 06:53:57 PM

I am running wintermute under VMware Fusion on the Mac and I just got this same message. The program ran fine , but I had to reinstall windows XP and when I did this message came up. Any ideas on how to solve this one. My video drivers are current.

Title: Re: Where r u guys? I Need HELP!!!
Post by: MMR on July 28, 2009, 07:50:57 PM

I guess the problem is related to VMWare indeed. It uses 2D software to try to render 3D content. The real 3D in VMWare is still an experimental issue and it's under heavy development.
I'm afraid you should use WINE or CEDEGA (Cider in case you have a Mac), downloable from www.transgaming.com

Remember to bind the exe to your game datafiles when compiling the project as sometimes Wine can't find the data file and with this aproach you could run it with no problems at all.

Title: Re: Where r u guys? I Need HELP!!!
Post by: gbol on July 28, 2009, 08:03:34 PM

It was working fine until I updated my copy of XP. Nothing else has changed so I'm not sure where the issue is. Is this link for another program? I am running this on a Mac.

Title: Re: Where r u guys? I Need HELP!!!
Post by: gbol on July 28, 2009, 08:14:38 PM

For anyone else that has this problem, here is the answer:

Warning: Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update breaks VMware Fusion's 3D acceleration for Macs with ATI graphics
The ATI driver in the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update causes slow performance or Windows 3D application crashes with VMware Fusion's 3D acceleration. If you have an ATI card and need VMware Fusion's 3D acceleration feature, we recommend you hold off on updating. We are working with ATI and Apple for them to resolve the issue.