"Fatal" D3D error with Spellforce 2

Pippo54

Hey everybody - seems I finally have to pay the price for being quite so bad at administering my own Laptop.
I just bought Spellforce 2 and am desperate to get it running, but even with new drivers (omega 38231) I can't quite manage to even boot it. Just goes "D3DERR Invalid Call: Create 3D Device". Reinstalling the game and/or DirectX 9.0c doesnt seem to help - so my sparse creative resources are already exhausted...

Any ideas?

Cheers, Ph

PS: -in case this might help: My Graphics are seriously old, ATI Radeon Mobility 9000.

Ib Al-Musaheb

Sounds like a DirectX 9.0 or game related problem ...

Did you have any problems when installing DirectX (such as Microsoft driver installation prevention coming up in setup process)?


Also keep in mind that this Radeon card is hell old (like you've said) ... so you might just waste your time trying to run this too-new game on your laptop!

ihatelinflas

does directx 9.0c even install completely on 9000 series? If I remember correctly it does not, so this may be the problem

Pippo54

Thing is just, that the game is basically running (now, after completely erradicating DirectX + ATI drivers) - and performance shouldnt even be to bad, after all Ive heard. Just this error is hard to ignore. You know any way to surpress this "Fatal DX9 Error" - say (D3DErr_INVALIDCALL) 'in CDspBaseMain DX9:: copy Render Target ().

Would OpenGL be of any help?

Well, thank you guys for the advice, reckon its indeed just a game related error, just be continuing to anoy the support crew.

Cheers, Ph

Schwerdt

Hi
Got the same problem here, but only since I installed your Omega Drivers. First I got a problem about some texture that cannot be created when a game loaded. I could press [Enter] twice and the game continues without any problems. On the offical Spellforce-website I got found advice to install the Omega Drivers to prevent this issue... I installed the Radeon_Omega_Drivers_4%2e8%2e442_(Ati_Catalyst_7%2 e12).exe
I downloaded and it really prevented the issue... I even can't run the Game -.-
I dont know, if I am too stupid to get these drivers run or anything like this.
Can you tell me, what I have to do to solve this?

I will now try to deinstall the Omega Drivers to get at least the game running.

Btw.: My card is a Radeon 9200 SE... Not the newest but it works... mostly...

J.Schwerdt

Edit: Great! Now my whole grafik is odd. Scrolling websites now comes in "waves" etc... I really hope, someone of you can help me with this, b4 Im gonna kill this whole computer to make it new...

Edit2: http://www.drivercleaner.net - The only way, to throw the files out of my computer, that caused this D3D Error. You can say, what you want, but this problem is direktly linked with the Omega drivers. Now, after reinstalling my ATI drivers, everything (seemes to) work(s) properly again