GoldenTiger
10-06-2001, 11:21 PM
Before I begin, I should list everything about my system:
MSI k7t266 Pro R126-resistor RAID Motherboard
1.33ghz AYHJA Core Tbird NOT overclocked
SB LIVE! Value non-5.1
Gainward GF3 PowerPack VIVO Golden Sample, OC'd to
270/615 STABLE (problems occur both with it at stock speeds and overclocked; OC'ing doesn't have anything to do with my problems)
OS: Windows 98; XP (I have tried on BOTH OS's, not dual booting, clean installs of each specifically to try and fix this!)
512mb Crucial RAM @ 2-2-2 DDR PC2100
Netgear NIC (problems occur with it in or uninstalled)
12x10x32 Burnproof TDK CDRW
Antec 1040b case; ambient case temp 33C, CPU 47C under full LOAD
Anyway, now onto my problem.
I can get to the settings screen for Max Payne, but when I click "play" it will not even boot into it. It will load the AVI, then once I click past it, it will display the loading bar and then crash. It pops up a dialog box saying "Failed to initialize D3D_SND_ERR". I tried patching to 1.01; no luck. I've tried EVERYTHING listed in the FAQ and in posts on this forum (lowering hardware acceleration; setting 16-bit on desktop; turning off FSAA; etc.) and it still won't work. Assuming it had to be the sound card ("SND"), I disabled that and attempted to load Max Payne. It stopped after finishing the loading bar: Dialog "Please make sure your adapter supports DirectX 8.0". This is at 1600x1200x32, sound off, all settings maxed, 4X fsaa, allow apps to control FSAA in drivers.
I'm on a GeForce 3, which obviously is fully Direct X compliant. This error occurs both with 12.91 Detonator drivers, as well as the new 21.81 (better known as Det4's) drivers. If I lower the resolution (while keeping sound off) to 1024x768, it loads, then crashes saying the same DirectX error once it reaches the end of the status bar. If I run it at the same with no FSAA, I can get into the game, but no sound, no FSAA, and obviously, no fun. Trying 640x480x16, NO FSAA, with sound, it will load into the game and play, but the sound will be distorted. 640x480x32 will crash it, but run if I turn off sound. My sound works *fine* in every other game I own, including other DX8 games. The weird sound is unique to Max Payne on this system.
I've tried all of the recommendations on the forums and in the FAQ's, with no luck. Is there any hope of getting Max Payne to play on my system? My system should be powerful enough to run Max Payne with all the settings maxed, 4x FSAA, Anisotropic filtering, 1600x1200x32, and 3d surround sound, yet I can't even load it without minimizing everything down to even bilinear filtering?! The game loads and plays fine on a friend's system, so I don't have a bum disc. These problems occur with both 1.00 and 1.01, as well as with any combination of the fixes listed in the FAQ's. I simply don't understand why Max Payne won't work with my system... I *really* was looking forward to playing it, but it's starting to look like it must go to the return counter soon images/icons/frown.gif . Does anyone have any suggestions? Is 3drealms making another patch, or perhaps one of their employees could be kind enough to provide me with a few suggestions or starting points to fix this? If I remove the sound card altogether, there are no differences in how the game runs, same with my NIC, etc. Thanks for reading!
EDIT: There's one thing I can think of that might help would be to lower the SOUND CARD's acceleration, but I have never heard of anyone doing that. Does anyone know if that's possible? I'd like to try that, but I can't figure out how images/icons/frown.gif .
UPDATE: It turns out the exact error is:
D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
I hadn't remembered it correctly in the initial post as I wasn't on the same computer and couldn't remember it for sure off-hand. This is at 1600x1200x32. At 1600x1200x16, it just says FATAL ERROR HAS OCCURRED PLEASE RESTART APPLICATION in a standard windows popup.
[ 10-06-2001: Message edited by: GoldenTiger ]
[ 10-07-2001: Message edited by: GoldenTiger ]
MSI k7t266 Pro R126-resistor RAID Motherboard
1.33ghz AYHJA Core Tbird NOT overclocked
SB LIVE! Value non-5.1
Gainward GF3 PowerPack VIVO Golden Sample, OC'd to
270/615 STABLE (problems occur both with it at stock speeds and overclocked; OC'ing doesn't have anything to do with my problems)
OS: Windows 98; XP (I have tried on BOTH OS's, not dual booting, clean installs of each specifically to try and fix this!)
512mb Crucial RAM @ 2-2-2 DDR PC2100
Netgear NIC (problems occur with it in or uninstalled)
12x10x32 Burnproof TDK CDRW
Antec 1040b case; ambient case temp 33C, CPU 47C under full LOAD
Anyway, now onto my problem.
I can get to the settings screen for Max Payne, but when I click "play" it will not even boot into it. It will load the AVI, then once I click past it, it will display the loading bar and then crash. It pops up a dialog box saying "Failed to initialize D3D_SND_ERR". I tried patching to 1.01; no luck. I've tried EVERYTHING listed in the FAQ and in posts on this forum (lowering hardware acceleration; setting 16-bit on desktop; turning off FSAA; etc.) and it still won't work. Assuming it had to be the sound card ("SND"), I disabled that and attempted to load Max Payne. It stopped after finishing the loading bar: Dialog "Please make sure your adapter supports DirectX 8.0". This is at 1600x1200x32, sound off, all settings maxed, 4X fsaa, allow apps to control FSAA in drivers.
I'm on a GeForce 3, which obviously is fully Direct X compliant. This error occurs both with 12.91 Detonator drivers, as well as the new 21.81 (better known as Det4's) drivers. If I lower the resolution (while keeping sound off) to 1024x768, it loads, then crashes saying the same DirectX error once it reaches the end of the status bar. If I run it at the same with no FSAA, I can get into the game, but no sound, no FSAA, and obviously, no fun. Trying 640x480x16, NO FSAA, with sound, it will load into the game and play, but the sound will be distorted. 640x480x32 will crash it, but run if I turn off sound. My sound works *fine* in every other game I own, including other DX8 games. The weird sound is unique to Max Payne on this system.
I've tried all of the recommendations on the forums and in the FAQ's, with no luck. Is there any hope of getting Max Payne to play on my system? My system should be powerful enough to run Max Payne with all the settings maxed, 4x FSAA, Anisotropic filtering, 1600x1200x32, and 3d surround sound, yet I can't even load it without minimizing everything down to even bilinear filtering?! The game loads and plays fine on a friend's system, so I don't have a bum disc. These problems occur with both 1.00 and 1.01, as well as with any combination of the fixes listed in the FAQ's. I simply don't understand why Max Payne won't work with my system... I *really* was looking forward to playing it, but it's starting to look like it must go to the return counter soon images/icons/frown.gif . Does anyone have any suggestions? Is 3drealms making another patch, or perhaps one of their employees could be kind enough to provide me with a few suggestions or starting points to fix this? If I remove the sound card altogether, there are no differences in how the game runs, same with my NIC, etc. Thanks for reading!
EDIT: There's one thing I can think of that might help would be to lower the SOUND CARD's acceleration, but I have never heard of anyone doing that. Does anyone know if that's possible? I'd like to try that, but I can't figure out how images/icons/frown.gif .
UPDATE: It turns out the exact error is:
D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
I hadn't remembered it correctly in the initial post as I wasn't on the same computer and couldn't remember it for sure off-hand. This is at 1600x1200x32. At 1600x1200x16, it just says FATAL ERROR HAS OCCURRED PLEASE RESTART APPLICATION in a standard windows popup.
[ 10-06-2001: Message edited by: GoldenTiger ]
[ 10-07-2001: Message edited by: GoldenTiger ]