russkie

After all the things I tried to fix, the answer was so obvious and I didn't even think of it... I just needed to reinstall/update my video drivers. In my rush to get this game running, I forgot that a complete reformat would leave my operating system completely driverless. Many thanks, killerinsidee. Side note to ultimecea, Direct3D is a part of the DirectX package, and is included with (among many other versions of DirectX) DirectX9.0c. DirectX9.0c is also the most current DirectX that can be run on systems preceding Vista (meaning XP or Windows 2000). In addition, the official system

I'm having some issues. I've tried every possible solution I can find and did quite a bit of troubleshooting. I actually got the game to work in linux via WINE but apparently WINE isn't able to use any of the character CG's in the game without crashing horribly. I formatted a hard-drive, popped it in my laptop, installed xp on it (just for this game), set up all the region/locale/language stuff, and then installed the VN according to the directions in your original post. First I was missing a directx .dll file, and so I just updated my directx (to 9.0c). That's when I started getting this