Vista Issues (1 Viewer)

[hey__me]

I've been fighting for 3 nights now trying to get MP working on this computer. Right now I have the following issues:

Vista Home Premium OS:
TV server seems to be ok
launching the main media portal program I get a error ding while starting directX (no window with an error) have to either hit enter or ESC to get it to go further. It then hangs on starting plugins

XP Home OS:
Seems to have a problem with how SQL server is getting configured.
1st install, system blue screened just as SQL server completed it's install
2nd Install - after a manual install of SQL from MS Website - MP started up fine and ran until I rebooted, then same blue screen on startup. disable SQL Server Service, and windows starts fine.

Both OS were fresh installs - I'm still loading Service Pack 1 on Vista now.

I was thinking that it was the integrated video card causing the issues as it is an older Intel 915G style integrated graphics, but like I said I had it working on XP until I rebooted.

Any Ideas?

Looks like it is a display driver issue after all:

turned off start in full screen, and now can read the error messages.

Both dealing with a software rasterizer not being a full DirectX.

How does one go about getting the software rasterizer? Does the DirectX SDK have it?

 

[hey__me]

DirectX Issue

As per other users, RC2 works fine for me. What gets me is that in the change logs from RC2 to final, there were little if no mention of DX changes other than verifying that the correct versions were installed.

I do not understand how such dramatic changes occur in RC's I understand in Beta phase, but in the RC phase, it should just be minor bugs?

 

[chemelli]

As per other users, RC2 works fine for me. What gets me is that in the change logs from RC2 to final, there were little if no mention of DX changes other than verifying that the correct versions were installed.

I do not understand how such dramatic changes occur in RC's I understand in Beta phase, but in the RC phase, it should just be minor bugs?

and this is not a dramatic change and neither a bug, but only a forced check that everybody is using the right version
Also we avoid distributing outdated dll with MP when it's not strictly necessary.

Simone

 

[hey__me]

It does seem to be a dramatic change if a release candidate supports a certain level of hardware, but the final version doesn't . I would understand such a chance in a beta phase of development, or a major version upgrade (say from 1.0 to 2.0) I'm not here to argue about the choices that are made as part of the development process, but I am just a bit disappointed that I won't be able to run the final version or any future versions on that computer (no upgrade path for the video card)

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

I was thinking that it was the integrated video card causing the issues as it is an older Intel 915G style integrated graphics, but like I said I had it working on XP until I rebooted.

See if there is a updated bios\gpu driver, also whilst in the bios, make sure gpu memory is set to at least 256mb, not auto.

 

[chemelli]

It does seem to be a dramatic change if a release candidate supports a certain level of hardware, but the final version doesn't . I would understand such a chance in a beta phase of development, or a major version upgrade (say from 1.0 to 2.0) I'm not here to argue about the choices that are made as part of the development process, but I am just a bit disappointed that I won't be able to run the final version or any future versions on that computer (no upgrade path for the video card)

We are not forcing _any_ hardware upgrade and didn't change anything on the MP prerequisites side. Only introduced a check about the directx version installed ( same as before !!! ) just in case someone missed some critical updates to this operating system component.

Simone