MPCEE French Bureau wrote:
Hello:
Last month I mentioned that I had an installation problem for WindowsXP.
From the Reponses that I received, at that time, were one’s that
mentioned OpenGL etc for audio and video. Looking at the number of
threads where NVDIA has been mentioned, I posed this question to Toshiba
(the manufacturer of the computer that I am trying to install FG on.
The response is an interesting one and, I think, needs to be responded
to on this Forum, to help Windows’ users. Quote – “NVDIA cannot be used
on our Notebooks, however you have the up-to-date Microsoft Direct3D
which should be acceptable for your request”.
I still cannot run FG. That is to say all runs perfectly until you
press, “RUN”, but eventually the command window says “Unknown exception
in the main loop. Aborting… Possible cause: No error.
If anyone out there is using Windows on a laptop with Microsoft
Direct3D, perhaps they can respond to why this is happening. Other
programmes run quite happily and I am sure Toshiba would not miss the
opportunity to ensure there machines are capable of capitalising on a
market that is worth millions from the games industry etc!
TIA.
Martin
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Poor guys, they won't know what OpenGL is, perhaps they've never heard
of it. They could easily have said that their laptops use ATI instead of
NVidia chips, but that would be revealing too much. Increasingly I'm
finding that manufacturers' specs are bare of anything meaningful, in
case someone is smart enough to figure out they are using chipsets that
are inferior in performance to the latest greatest from the competition
at the same sort of price.
Regards
Sid.
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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot
Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
Specialist
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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