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DirectDraw <> Vista - Rezeyu - 08-04-2007
At present, I'm unable to run any Mirage-Based Engines, or Mirage itself becasue whenever I try to run or compile, It tries to initialize DirectDraw, and causes me to get RTE 429.
Code:
Set DD = DX.DirectDrawCreate("")I have all DLLs needed, I did alot of googling up till this point.
I have DirectX 9.0
If I comment out every DD instance, it runs fine, so It's just that I suppose.
- Matt - 08-04-2007
429 is caused, on all other versions of windows, buy one of two files, or both not being registered.
DAO350.dll and Dx7vb.dll
Have you tried registering these two files?
- Rezeyu - 08-04-2007
Yeap.
Actually, I went to add them, and they were on my computer already.
- Matt - 08-04-2007
The ones on your computer could be out of date, or corrupted. I would replace and re-register them.
I had to help one of my staff do this exact thing the other day, but he uses XP.
- Rezeyu - 08-04-2007
when I tried adding them and discovered I already had them, I jsut replaced existing.
I also tried setting the PC to 16 bit gfx, dunno why, I just read it somewhere and I've been desperate to make this work.
On all the forums, PW, Elysium, Eclipse, etc. no vista user has gotten them to work yet, so I can't find a fix.
If you google "runtime error 429 vista" every user gets it as well trying to run any Active X control.
- Matt - 08-04-2007
Do you have MSN? If so, add me.
mailto
resiseFA@netscape.netI don't know if registering the files will work for Vista, but it's worth a shot.
- funkynut - 09-04-2007
Simply replacing them wont make a difference, you have to reregister them (In xp its using regsvr, not sure for vista)
If I'm wrong, then just ignore that
- Boo - 09-04-2007
Try updating ur drivers.
Btw heres a right click regsiter i have.
http://www.eloric.com/ActiveX_right_click.zip
- Matt - 09-04-2007
It won't let him register using regsvr32. =\
I already walked him through it, it just popped out errors.
I dunno what his problem is, I don't have Vista to toy with it.
- Boo - 09-04-2007
try registering them throught the ActiveX right click, i posted download link above. But here it is again.
http://www.eloric.com/ActiveX_right_click.zip
- Braydok - 09-04-2007
I am getting the automaton error when I try to run MS. Since everyone can't get it to work, I'll just give up finding the solution. (I'll just work on it on a diff comp with XP on it.)
~Braydok
- Obsidian - 09-04-2007
I've heard people say that they had to go to the compiled exe, and right click on it, go to properties, and then under the compatibility tab, set 'run for compatibility for WinXP', or something like that. I remember you could do that on Xp for 95/98 only programs. Try that and see what happens.
- William - 09-04-2007
Hmm, sucker ran on vista for me. But I always ran in Admin, had UAC turned off permanently. And had every app I run, run in xp compat mode.
- Rezeyu - 10-04-2007
Already registered, the two DLLs needed were already on my machine from the get go, fresh out of the box.
I deleted them, and re-added them, but I can't register DLLs through regsvr, via Run, activeX, or dragging them onto the icon.
I am running in Admin, running the program as an administrator, with UAC off, in XP compat.
Still hasn't worked.
- funkynut - 10-04-2007
I remember regsvr failing on me before with zlib
Try putting it in system32 (or whatever they use in vista)
If not, google with the error?
- Gilgamesch - 10-04-2007
wtf??? who deleted my post? wtf is wrong here! ?!
- Tony - 12-04-2007
Gilgamesch Wrote:wtf??? who deleted my post? wtf is wrong here! ?!
Do you see WHAT I mean?
- Gilgamesch - 12-04-2007
Kuja Wrote:Do you see WHAT I mean?
no not really o.O, seriously, what are u talking about?
- Rezeyu - 14-04-2007
Wel lthis auto magically fixed itself.. o.O
I was adding my brother's shared docs as a drive on my computer with netBIOS, and then I had to restart, and when I did, I could magically open Mirage clients, except everything in the map window was black, no names or anything.
So I restarted again, and everything is fine now.... o.O
And yes, I have restarted after the DLL registering and all that, so it's not that I just waited.
I'll just roll with it.