Hi! I discovered a very strange problem under winxp. While under win2k my program works fine, D3DXLoadMeshFromX fails loading a mesh under winxp (I tried it with diffrent meshes so it should not be the mesh''s fault). After a lot of debugging I found out that the function does it''s job when it''s called before a IDirectPlay8Client function is called. Simple example: // ... hr = m_dpClient->EnumHosts ( &dpnAppDesc, pDP8AddressHost, pDP8AddressLocal, NULL, 0, INFINITE, 0, INFINITE, NULL, &m_enumHandle, 0 ); hr = D3DXLoadMeshFromX ( filename, D3DXMESH_SYSTEMMEM, ge->m_d3dDev, NULL, &tmpMaterials, &m_numMaterials, &m_mesh ); // ... Now when D3DXLoadMeshFromX() returns everything has worked fine except one thing: the vertices in the mesh are totally screwed up! If I place the D3DXLoadMeshFromX() call in front of a IDirectPlay8Client:: function call, it works: // ... hr = CoCreateInstance // This function can be called without affecting the D3DXLoadMeshFromX() function ?!?! ( CLSID_DirectPlay8Client, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IDirectPlay8Client, (LPVOID*) &m_dpClient ); hr = D3DXLoadMeshFromX ( filename, D3DXMESH_SYSTEMMEM, ge->m_d3dDev, NULL, &tmpMaterials, &m_numMaterials, &m_mesh ); hr = m_dpClient->EnumHosts ( &dpnAppDesc, pDP8AddressHost, pDP8AddressLocal, NULL, 0, INFINITE, 0, INFINITE, NULL, &m_enumHandle, 0 ); // ... Can anybody tell me why?? Everything in my program works except this one function (((( Under win2k everything works...?!?! By the way: I''m using the DirectX 8.1 SDK Thx for help - pi256

should send a bug report to directx@microsoft.com

xyzzy

sounds fishy, why would D3DX and DirectPlay conflict ??
better check microsoft knowledge base.

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There are some faulty DX-dll''s shipping with XP.
Download the DirectX package from microsoft and reinstall it.


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