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The application has failed to start because d3d9.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem
i get that error on start
Works fine for me... very promising! A quick question: when I activate Expire to 'organize' my running windows, should the background be blue? The app would seem more professional if I could still see my desktop while the windows moved around... but other than that, very nice, very smooth animations. Good work. 
Looking nice!
Originally posted by carbonfiber@Jul 22 2004, 09:23 AM
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I get a similar problem.
Failed to create the Direct3D Device! Check your Direct3D settings.
Looks like it's coded to video cards that can support Direct3D with Expires' custom settings.
When I start the program it says that it "'Failed to create the Direct3d Device! Expire is switching to default DirectX values. Check your Direct3D settings!'" on my card.
My card is a GeForce2MX400 and it worked with the previous expire beta with the same drivers I am using now.
I get that message as well. When I click "OK" there, I getOriginally posted by smoke@Jul 22 2004, 01:10 PM"Failed to create the Direct3d Device! Expire is switching to default DirectX values. Check your Direct3D settings!"
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and it quits.Failed to create the Direct3D Device with default settings! Maybe you card is not supporting the DirectX settings. Exiting now.
I ran dxdiag and did the video tests, they all worked. Running DirectX 9.0b
Using "Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller" (onboard) -- this is a dell computer at work.
Yes I get the second message too.
Ditto here as well... ran all the DXDiags stuff.
Results:
No problems found.
DirectDraw test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D 7 test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D 8 test results: All tests were successful.
Direct3D 9 test results: All tests were successful.
by all accounts, it should be working.
Oh well... it is a beta after all.
"The procedure entry point PrintWindow could not be located in the dynamic link library USER32.dll"
Originally posted by Soma@Jul 22 2004, 05:50 PM"The procedure entry point PrintWindow could not be located in the dynamic link library USER32.dll"
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are you trying to run it on windows 2000 or somthing? i believe it only works on windowsXP
-bolero
Ok I fixed my problem, what I did was go to "animations" from the systray icon and pick something. =p
:cry: All it does is close the app whenever i click a corner of my screen or press F2 F3 or F5...
FlareX that's also what mine did until I did what I said above. You have to open it and go to the systray icon, right click, pick animations and pick something for ordering and soemething for animation.
That was the first thing i did... It still closes...
Originally posted by smoke@Jul 22 2004, 11:44 AMOk I fixed my problem, what I did was go to "animations" from the systray icon and pick something. =p
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How did this fix the problem?
Once the error message pops, the systray icon is useless and the app terminates.
He restarted the application and then selected sys tray icon and chose an animation?
The first thing I did after loading the program was to press F9. That only causes it to "encounter a problem" and then terminate.
I then ran it again and checked the options only to discover that F9 shouldn't do anything. Otherwise, the app works well enough on my Ti4400. I can only turn on 1x Antialiasing though. (Looking at my Graphics Card settings, it looks as if I should be able to do at most 4x.)
yet...*faints*
This is really amazing... the movement is soooo smooth... so fast... soo coooool...
I got the above mentioned error... but i just entere thew ANIMATION menu, change the animation and everything went fine. I even get back to the default animation and everything was ok.
Originally posted by ronin@Jul 22 2004, 02:33 PM*faints*
This is really amazing... the movement is soooo smooth... so fast... soo coooool...
I got the above mentioned error... but i just entere thew ANIMATION menu, change the animation and everything went fine. I even get back to the default animation and everything was ok.
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I get the errors, but then the app terminates.
There is no chance to select the tray icon as it won't respond when the error messages are there.
And once you hit OK on the error dialogs, your done and so is the app.
Restarting it is useless.
Same thing over and over.
OMFG!!
wild..... it works just fine on my rig... this is developing VERY nicely...
Cheers
Jon@z
Awesome...this is so cool :cool:
Originally posted by carbonfiber@Jul 22 2004, 05:18 PMworks on my other computer, very nice (Y)
but the shortcut keys dont work
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you're probably pressing the wrong shortcut keys ... you're probably thinking F9 etc. ... if you right click the systray and click on "settings" or if you open up the config xml file you'll see that the default shortcut keys are set to F2, F3, and F5 ... you can customize this however.
For me, i still get the same error message as with beta 1 when i press the shortcut keys or when i move to the corners:
expire.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.