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Old 01-14-2007, 03:47 AM   #1 (permalink)
Vizi0ntek
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Canada
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OS: Windows XP SP2


Question DirectX games crash to desktop with dinput8 error

When running certain games
For example: F.E.A.R, Vice City, Need For Speed : Carbon.

My Computer crashes to the desktop with something like this:

AppName: fear.exe AppVer: 1.8.282.0 ModName: dinput8.dll
ModVer: 5.3.2600.2180 Offset: 00016324

Now i have a dual boot of Windows MCE and Windows XP SP2

on my SP2 these games will crash to the desktop
but in MCE they will not

i have replaced the dinput8.dll in my SP2 partition with the one from MCE with no difference in games, BUT... my dxdiag does not crash on direct input anymore...

I am really baffled at what the cause of this could be
is there any way to roll back direct x to previous versions and work from there for a solution?

Hoping someone has an answer for me! Thank you so much.


Oh yea.. and if i put Vice City on Windows 98 Compatability it will run fine, but the others will not

Thank you again
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