I tried to start up an old game I liked called Company of Heroes. It ran very slowly which struck me as odd. I hadn't played it for a several years and in the mean time I got a new Video card (Geforce 9600 GSO). A thought occurred to me. I seem to recall something with Direct X. That Direct X 10 doesn't work very well with this card (or at least with my PC) and I used Direct X 9 ( I recently did a hard drive format, and I don't recall what I had on there before). Does any of this sound reasonable? Maybe it was I had direct X 10 but Direct X 11 didn't work. I don't remember correctly.
It sounds reasonable. In any case, you cannot run DirectX 11 with those cards, and a quick google search reveals several users did report issues with DX10.
Updated your drivers recently, Raz? If not, try that first.
Quote from: Norgy on July 09, 2011, 11:57:00 AM
It sounds reasonable. In any case, you cannot run DirectX 11 with those cards, and a quick google search reveals several users did report issues with DX10.
Updated your drivers recently, Raz? If not, try that first.
Good idea. I forgot about that. Thank, Norg.
You might also try downloading a D3D9.dll appropriate to your video card and put it in the game folder. That will make the card use DirectX 9 for that game rather than allowing it to use the DirectX 9 emulator in the card software.
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34778 is the version that I used in FONV early on, when this was an issue.