What am I doing wrong?

[Yorel]

Greetings

My name is Luis, but my friends call me Yorel. I'm from Madrid, Spain

The other day I was doing cleaning my bookshelves and found the FS between those PC Games had abandoned long ago.

The fact is that I came wanting to play a game and remember those evenings where I saw the faces with the combined fleet. But now my PC is too modern to support the FS.

I have a PC with an Nvidia graphics card GForce 8600 that runs under Windows Vista.

Following the indications that I have read in the forum I have tried installing FS and the FSP V10.43. by following these steps.

1. Install FS full original (with editor scenarios)
2. Install Intel Video.
3. Download and execute FSP V10.43 English Version Full Install

After doing this attempt to start the game but gave me an error that the system could not find the file "D3DRM.DLL."

Returning to consult the forum I read that he had to install DirectX9.0c, which I have done correctly. But the game does not work.

I tried to find the DLL file that the system could not find and download it directly from the Internet.

Download the DLL file and installed on Windows / systems, as indicated by the instructions

Now the game starts, but only see a blue screen with a resolution extremely low and I can only hear the music video SSI. After the system crash and block

Have either you help and tell me that I must do in order to play the FS under Windows Vista?

Thank you for everything.

A greeting

[Glossza]

Install D3DRM.DLL in c:\windows\system32 folder not the c:\windows\system folder

see if that works


John

[Yorel]

I have already tried what I said and has not working
How can I tell which version of DirectX I have installed?

[Glossza]

Ok we'll try to help, lets take this one step at a time.

To get your DX version in vista

Goto

Start
In the start search box at the bottom type in "dxdiag" and hit enter

What you will see is your system is DX10, your computer will always show the highest DX number and not any others.

Vista has dx10 and dx9L ( for backward compatibility for other versions ) Unfortunately, dx10 and dx9L in vista is missing some Dll's that you need.

This game needs dx9.0c installed to add those files in order to work. If dx9.0c is installed correctly you will not get any error messages.

You installed dx9.0c and still got error could not find dll? Something wrong here.
You downloaded missing dll, and put into windows\system32 - but it seems that you are getting video problems at start up. Corrrect?

A) I would delete file you moved to windows\system 32 ( the d3drm.dll file)

B) I would reinstall dx9.0c ( dx9.0c has d3drm.dll you should not need to download it by itself )( see URL below ) and make sure it installs correctly ( Windows rebooted after install?)

C) I would delete game and do a new install, to make sure the install did not go bad.

Nvidia cards have known problems, that you can read about in other posts here. ( Fighting Steel on new computer post )

If the reinstall does not work, check settings on your video card.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en)

Try this again , let us know what happens.

[Yorel]

Thank you very much

Let me try this and see that happens ....

[Yorel]

He found that the version I have of Directx is 10.
As I enter I tried to reinstall the 9.0c but when I run it tells me that I already have a more modern version and will not let me change it.

How can I solve this?

[Warship NWS]

He found that the version I have of Directx is 10.
As I enter I tried to reinstall the 9.0c but when I run it tells me that I already have a more modern version and will not let me change it.

How can I solve this?

I have asked WM to post some instructions on how to do this.. stay tuned. Thanks.

[William Miller]

Hello,

If you are running under the Vista operating system you need to download and install the latest Directx 9.0 redistributable runtime package in order to fully install DirectX 9. The latest DX9 (English-language version) can be downloaded from the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=822640ab-0983-4c41-9c70-632f6f42c557&displaylang=en

You will have to search for your language version if your operating system is in something other than English.