Slitherine

Posted: **Wed May 05, 2010 1:49 am**

To make an Acer Aspire 1 netbook play nice with Airstrike?

It meets the specs, and originally whined about D3Dx_28.dll or something similar, so installed DirectX 9c on this mini-laptop
running Win7 32 with native DirectX 11.

The DX9 install cured the error, but now I get a white screen followed by a Windows crash report.

It is no biggie, as it runs just fine on my gaming rig at home, but I'm on the road for the next week, and would like to curl
up in my hotel room and blast the bits out of some Lutwaffe types.

You know, an INI setting that says "sure, run at 1024 x 600."?

___ADDENDUM___

Here's the crash log entry, for them what cares;

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: ac.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4bc2f577
Fault Module Name: ac.exe
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4bc2f577
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00005a60
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Posted: **Wed May 05, 2010 10:57 am**

I've passed this on to the developer and hope to have some info soon.

Posted: **Wed May 05, 2010 11:13 am**

Hello,

Spectre_USA > Can you please look into log.html and copy text which is inside file here?, log.html should be located inside install directory, in the same directory as ac.exe. And what is default (resp. monitor) resolution of your mini laptop - 1024 x 600 ?

Thanks!

Posted: **Wed May 05, 2010 12:53 pm**

Ooo, that is a handy little item, spells it out pretty well;

<html>
<head> Air Strike: Aces of WWII - Log File </head>
<body>
<center>
Air Strike: Aces of WWII - Log File </center> 
CreateDevice: FAILED 
Resolution:1024x768 
CreateDevice: FAILED 
HardwareVertexProcessing 0 
CreateDevice: FAILED 

BackBufferFormat 16 bit 
CreateDevice: FAILED 
Your graphics card is no compatible with Direct3D9 

And yes, it does do 1024 x 600 natively.

It is an Intel chipset, not nVidia or ATi.

Posted: **Wed May 05, 2010 2:11 pm**

I think that problem is sure in resolution.

You can setup up lower resolution e.g. 800x600 and try start game, but not all intels chips have hardware vertex processing, and if HW vertex processing is not supported by graphic card, game automatically turn it off and switch to emergency resolution (1024x768) and then game will try again initialize Direct3D.

If lower resolution not helps, i uploaded special exe with "emergency" resolution 1024x600 http://3division.net/acfix.zip unzip archive and copy acfix.exe to the same directory as ac.exe, then run acfix.exe. Can you please try it and reply here if it helps or not?

If not please again copy content of log.html

Thanks!

Posted: **Wed May 05, 2010 5:33 pm**

Here I sit at the airport in Portland, Oregon on the way to Sacramento, with the fine strains of AirStrike Eagles playing!

Youse guys rock!

I had tried the 800x600, but the log.html kept showing 1024x768 fail, as per your description.

I used the ACFix.exe and it fired up. Kludgy, and the options screen is a little out of sorts. "Special effects, medium 1024x768."

But it is much better'n a white screen and a crash message! Will try to tweak it in to be playable, but this Intel chipset may be
this things Achille's heel.

Hopefully, I won't have to wait until Monday to get another AirStrike fix.

Many thanks Peter...

Posted: **Sat May 08, 2010 5:14 pm**

I also have problems with an ACER 1 netbook. I get the same message about missing d3dx9_28.dll. Running windows XP with that evil Intel card for graphics. The game works fine on a fill size laptop with the same intel graphics set using Vista (a curse upon it).

Posted: **Sun May 09, 2010 3:09 am**

Vista was DirectX 10, IIRC.

You can actually install DX9c in conjunction with V10. I did it, as stated above, with Win 7 and DX 11.

Try that...

Posted: **Sun May 09, 2010 6:06 pm**

Spectre_USA wrote:Vista was DirectX 10, IIRC.

You can actually install DX9c in conjunction with V10. I did it, as stated above, with Win 7 and DX 11.

Try that...

Have done this now but have gotten a white screen and have tried different resolutions with no change ... I guess it is progress.

Posted: **Sun May 09, 2010 6:08 pm**

Spectre_USA wrote:Vista was DirectX 10, IIRC.

You can actually install DX9c in conjunction with V10. I did it, as stated above, with Win 7 and DX 11.

Try that...

Have done this now but have gotten a white screen and have tried different resolutions with no change ... I guess it is progress.

Posted: **Mon May 10, 2010 5:03 am**

Did you try the ACFix.zip they offered up?

I was getting the same thing `til I used that executable...

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 5:05 am**

Spectre_USA wrote:Did you try the ACFix.zip they offered up?

I was getting the same thing `til I used that executable...

Have done that and messed around a bit .... runs mildly erratic but until they do a genuine fix it'll have to do. Thanks for the help.

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 8:12 am**

If you get a missing dx dll message you need to download and install the latest version of DirectX 9.0c.

Slitherine

Is there a setting I can tweak?

Is there a setting I can tweak?