As the title says... I've been trying to get VO to run in DX9 mode for a while now. My computer is running DX9.0c currently, but VO always starts up in DX8.1 mode. Upon attempting to change it to DX9.0 mode, the client always crashes and sends in a bug report. This problem persists today after updating all of my video drivers. I even tried disabling all video and graphics settings before changing the driver, and it still crashes. Would really like to run in DX9 mode.

Running Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe @ 3200MHz, EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS @ 540MHz, 320MB VRAM @ 792MHz, 2GB D9GMH DDR2 @ 667MHz. Windows XP Pro, DX9.0c. Problem is persistent from stock frequencies.

EDIT: Event viewer shows these system log entries at the approximate time of the crash.

The PciBus service was successfully sent a start control.


and


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Scan ID: {97EE1C08-F7EF-41D2-A66F-DFABD14EA546}
User: EXTREME-SAVAGE\user
Name: Unknown
ID:
Severity: Not Yet Classified
Category: Not Yet Classified
Path Found: service:PciBus
Alert Type: Unclassified software
Detection Type:

I checked out your bug report and noticed Fraps and something called Stardock with WindowBlinds. Try uninstalling those or at least disable WindowBlinds and see if VO runs in dx9 mode. The crash trace shows the WindowBlinds dll in the trace so that may be the culprit.

will try disabling WB. second bug report should have been clean of fraps though -- I turned it off.

OH heh. I only looked at the first bug report and should have looked at the other as well.

If I disable windowblinds for vendetta.rlb, will it then ignore the client entirely, or is there another executable I need it to ignore?

EDIT: ok, come to think of it, I can only make it ignore .exe files, so will try ignoring vendetta.exe and see what happens. if it crashes again, I'll send another bug report to check for consistency and try unloading windowblinds entirely.

more bug reports sent... I disabled Windowblinds for VO only, and it worked... however, shortly after successfully changing the driver, I alt-tabbed out of the game, and it crashed.

So then I unloaded Windowblinds entirely, ran it again, switched to DX9, logged out and back on (so I wouldn't have to go through the switching again if it crashed), and it played fine... until I did /logoff and exited the client, at which point it crashed again.

Did you try VO again after that? It looked like your last crash was in d3d8.dll.
When you said logged out and back in did you mean exiting VO and rerunning it?

Nope, only logged off and back on, to make it save the graphics config. Haven't run it since, but will update when i do... just been busy this week.

heh run WB and stardock on the eee and my ye ol deskbox and i never had problems

mebbe try getting WB 5 or an older version since the newer ones are built to work better on vista.