More "8.1 doesn't like me" business
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Well, after playing around with it, for no reason whatsoever directx is giving me TERRIBLE framerates. They were 101 or so, now they are 3 or 4. Even if I make it so i am doing nothing on the screen, the frame rate is still 4 at its highest. is anyone else seeing something like this?
I could just chalk it up for drivers under Direct X 8.1, but that does me no good since Creative won''t release new drivers and nvidia''s reference drivers wont work.
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Ok, i am gonna have to say that my computer just don''t like running with Directx 8.1, so to troubleshoot i was going to reinstall 8.0a, which worked fine. (those were the days). Considering I cant just uninstall Directx like a program, and i cant install and older version on top of a newer one, how the hell do i get the old one back in place? Or, one step at a time, how do i get rid of the current one?
Don''t even bother trying to remove DX manually, you will destroy your OS. 
Have a look in the forums at www.delphi.com/proghall. I remember seeing some links to DirectX uninstallers around the place.
Have a look in the forums at www.delphi.com/proghall. I remember seeing some links to DirectX uninstallers around the place.
You can wait for the next version of Directx Buster, or you can reinstall Windows (don''t format or anything, just reinstall over your existing installation).
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tried to reinstall windows, but somehow its still there. blah. Either I gotta format, or wait for the DirectX buster.
I can always just work on some 3d modeling until i get this figured out....
I can always just work on some 3d modeling until i get this figured out....
yeah i have the same problem, and its pissing me off, i don''t even want to work on my stuff right now, my framerates are like 20 or 30 even when nothing is on the screen, they used to be in the hundreds since i installed 8.1. and the shit that pisses me off is that you can''t uninstall directx, its BS. if anyone knows a solution, please tell me
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Well, I downloaded the 8.0a sdk again, just for kicks, and of course the problem was still there after i uninstalled 8.1 and put that one on. So, being the rebelious type (well, as rebelious as one can be and still us Microsoft crap), I downloaded the DirectX Buster for 8.0 and used it on 8.1. Not POSITIVE there won''t be any small glitches or bugs after having done this, but by crickey, i installed 8.0a and now my frames are back up to a happy 86. Thanks a lot guys, i am back in the game.
GyCot, Try to check if your 3D init is the same as in the SDK Examples.
My engine was doing 40 f/s in DX8.0 and only 8 f/s when I moved to 8.1 . I changed the init process to be the same as the one you have in the "Donut3D" SDK Example and now I''m back with 40 f/s.
My engine was doing 40 f/s in DX8.0 and only 8 f/s when I moved to 8.1 . I changed the init process to be the same as the one you have in the "Donut3D" SDK Example and now I''m back with 40 f/s.
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