OT: Master of Orion 3 is now working.

cshank2 · #1 June 24th, 2005, 10:26 PM

Ahaha. So, I put in all the mods and stuff, start the game up. Get tot he loading screen for new game.

ERROR: Can not find DirectX Surface. Meh, uninstalled it, apparently the game doesn't like DX9.0c

Colt · #2 June 25th, 2005, 03:10 AM

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cshank2 said:
Ahaha. So, I put in all the mods and stuff, start the game up. Get tot he loading screen for new game.

ERROR: Can not find DirectX Surface. Meh, uninstalled it, apparently the game doesn't like DX9.0c

Nope, that's not true. I run DirectX 9.0c on my PC and I run MOO3 fine. The usual reason for DirectX surface errors in MOO3 is an incorrectly modded game. Which mods, did you install, and are you sure you installed them correctly? It's most likely you've accidently stuffed something up during the install process, I believe.

If it didn't like DirectX9.0c, MOO3 wouldn't even have got the main menu to display. You'd have copped a DirectX error as soon as it tried to appear.

Colt.

Atrocities · #3 June 25th, 2005, 03:22 AM

Thanks Colt for posting.

Colt · #4 June 25th, 2005, 04:07 AM

'Tis my Pleasure. Glad I can help.

Colt.

Xrati · #5 June 25th, 2005, 11:41 AM

As Colt mentioned, some of the mods you install have to be treated with care. The map mod will give you the direct X problem if you've tried to replace a star lane(3 or more turns to travel) with a warp lane (1 turn). For some reason the game doesn't like when you mess with these. Some of the mods that allow you to get extra points for building your race also cause this problem. Just don't install to many mods at once. One at a time and run the game after each mod is installed. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon07.gif[/img] Try the diplomacy mod as it does a nice job of actually fixing the negotiation phrases that the AI uses. It was a well done mod with one or two phrases out of place. You can go into the mod and fix them yourself if they haven't been fixed already.

cshank2 · #6 June 25th, 2005, 04:44 PM

Ah, the map one is probably it since that was the only one that actually really /changed/ anything.

Hugh Manatee · #7 September 2nd, 2005, 07:51 AM

*thread necromances*

When patching the stock MoO game up to the latest do I have to use the data patch, v1.2 code patch and the latests patch, or just the latest? I dont want to spend a half hour DLing something I don't need.