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Could somebody pleeze help me. I bought Red Faction without the prior knowledge that it seriously hates windoze XP. When I try to start it I get an error message that says

"Error: Unable to initialize DirectX 8.0 - Device creation failed!
File: C:\projects\RF_PC\vsdk\gr\directx\gr_direct3d.cpp - Line 1872"

I copied and pasted that straight out of the readme file and for some reason they think that getting this is OK.

I would be grateful if someone could give me a hand

900mhz intel celeron processor
256mb RAM
Geforce2 MX200 64meg
Detonator 2 drivers from nvidia

Could people not send me messages about how it works perfectly fine for them and then provide no help whatsoever. Its really annoying.

Thanx
 
amazing, Ive had zero problem with this game and XP.. did you do the auto patching? That may help.
 
Weird thing happened. 10 minutes after my last post I actually got it to work. Something was wrong with my directdraw or something.
However, now I've got another problem. It runs as slow as a bitch. I know it's not my computer cause it runs return to castle wolfenstein like a dream. Its like walkin in low gravity but i can turn around with the mouse like normal.

Help
 
play with the settings man. turn off shadows and turn everything down to medium. also, disable vsync.

oDin.
 
Tried that. I put everything down to the lowest level and it runs just as bad. I am able to run return to castle wolfenstein on the highest quality level without it even stalling.
 
"Could people not send me messages about how it works perfectly fine for them and then provide no help whatsoever. Its really annoying"

Works perfectly for me!

It's not Windows XP or the game as it works perfectly for so many people.

It's something with your hardware, drivers, or XP settings.


Try asking for help other places like:

http://www.forumplanet.com/3dactionplanet/forum.asp?fid=1406
 

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