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« on: December 25, 2004, 12:00:03 am »
hello ,
that NT error is winXP specific also as XP uses NT backbone (so to speak)If it is a fresh install and not an upgrade over 98 with it's old FAT32 file system.. if formated it's default way...
If you are running some of my or other folks animation files that have a lot going on, edit them down a bit first....The animation emotion files i created are pretty system insensive..
the calendar thing is puzzling.
In gaming 3d creation, or anyting 3d those problems usuallyt point to one of 3 solutions..
First if some how your DirectX drivers got comtaminated... they are whar control mutilmedia 3d apps... If you installed any older 3d app or game that accidentally over wrote the directX in you machine with an older version... This is always the first thing to check with 3d problems.. in your system go to start - all programs - Acccessories - system tools and look for system information... when it opens at the top menu click on tools - DirectX diagnostic tool....If you have XP the version should read 9.0b if lower it was compleately over written.. if 9.0c you have the latest.. go through all the tabs in there and do all the test's if they all trun out right your directX is OK..... if on the bottom it says you have uncertified drivers go to the maufacturers web page for your vid card and get thier latest drivers and instakll them... odds are you have N-Vidia chipset of some sort if so thier latest all in one driver set is fully certified and works great.
if not that.....
By default the haptek player tries to use Hardware exceleration as opposed to software.hard ware is faster and moreefficient. what this means is it is running 3d in direct3d mode.. and using the memory from you video card to render the images and animation, on some of the latest lower end PC's offered by the department store brand, they have a 3d chip built onto the mother board and share a part of the system ram for video, this is fine unless you are trying to run anything that has alot of memory expensive video rendering and animation... If it defaults to software then 3d suffers and it uses more system ram... If your new machine does not have at least 512 megs of fast memory and does not have a seperate vid card with at least 64 megs of video ram it can have some problems if you are running alarge Hal brain and Haptek with a bunch of animations and large texture maps for the characters....
The hap guide I have speaks of this potential problem,,, If you have a system as i stated above and you still have some memory or video issues after you re-install.. post and i will post you the changes we need to change the set hardware from 1- to 0-, and a few other things in it's main file. that need to be made in the hap engine to turn it over to software render, and to lower the resolutions a bit , and cancel some of it's antialiesing and such,,,, but this is the extreame last measure. as you video appearnce will suffer a bit.
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