Broken Sword 4 Starting problem and directx 9? HELP

[Delboy77]

hey people, I just got broken sword 4 and went to install it on to my laptop the install for the game was fine the direct x update was fine but wen i click to play the game i get the msg pop up.....THERE WAS AN ERROR STARTING DIRECTX.....then the second pop up is........THE ERROR MESSAGE HAS BEEN COPIED TO THE CLIPBOARD PLEASE PASTE IT IN TO THE BUG REPORT.....every time i trie and open the game i get them same to messages.
Im comfused as i dont know really what the problem is nor how to paste from a clipboard ( whats a clip board and wheres the bug report ) I have check all the requirements for the game and i do have drect x 9 on my comp and i have a sony vaio fs series which im sure has all the right requirement for the game to work. But that directx message has really confused me!

If anyone can help me please reply i just wanna get playing on the game asap and fix this problem

thanks Delboy

[Dale Baldwin]

This sounds like an issue with your graphics card in the laptop, although I'd have thought the GeForce 6200 Go would be okay for Broken Sword 4 (assuming that's what is in your Sony Vaio FS-Series). Hmm.

Have you tried updating/downgrading your graphics drivers as well?

[Delboy77]

No i havnt tried that how do i go about doing that? is there any link i could go to and if so where would i need to save it to? and yes im pretty sure thats what i have on my vaio what u said

[Dale Baldwin]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_91.47.html is probably what you need, otherwise go here (http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp) and select the appropriate options from the three lists at the bottom of the page.

[Delboy77]

where should i save the file to and is there anyway of checkin on ur comp what graphics card u have cos im not 100 percent...sorry to be a pain man! but been up all even tryin to figure it out lol its driving me mad!

[Dale Baldwin]

It doesn't matter, you'll need to run it once it's downloaded so put it somewhere that you'll be able to find it easily.

[Delboy77]

im jus tryin it now

[Delboy77]

okay that didnt work.... i went to system device manager and looked at disk drives and adapeters i have if thats any help to give an idea what graphics card i have and it comes up.....HITACHTI_DK23FA-60 AND THE DRIVER VERSION IS 5.1.2535.0 UNDER ADAPTER IT SAYS MOBILE INTEL 915GM/GMS,910GML EXPRESS CHIPSET AND THAT DRIVER VERSION 6.14.10.4267 i dunno if that gives u a better idea what graphics card i have jus cos im not 100 percent my self mate

[Dale Baldwin]

Uh oh. I had a feeling you were going to say something like that.

It looks like your particular Sony Vaio FS-Series is the lower spec version of the available ones. That intel graphics chipset doesn't support pixel shader 1.1, so isn't good enough for BS4 :( (Or I might be wrong, but that sounds like the problem)

[Delboy77]

hmmm well i have a comp and it has this memory 128 mb graphics nvidia riva tnt graphics AGP 2X 8MB DEDICATED VIDEO MEMORY ANY BETTER OR ANYWAY OF UNDATING PLEASE SAY YES LOL IVE COMPLETED EVERY OTHER ONE AND I AINT GONNA GET TO PLAY THIS 1 ITS MADNESS

[Dale Baldwin]

How do I put this... that riva tnt is ancient, and definitely won't run it. Sorry.

[Delboy77]

Lol i thort so... so there is no way possible of playin this game on my laptop thats so ridiculous cos i seen so many people with this problem dude why not jus bring it out on the ps2 again if its causing this much trouble.... sorry im rambling but apart from bying a new comp which i dont want to do is there anything i can get or do to get it to run

[MartyMcFly]

Sorry man, you just dont meet the spec.

[Delboy77]

can i not buy a graphics card to advance this or buy summin to advance the spec?

[wolverine0880]

hey people, I just got broken sword 4 and went to install it on to my laptop the install for the game was fine the direct x update was fine but wen i click to play the game i get the msg pop up.....THERE WAS AN ERROR STARTING DIRECTX.....then the second pop up is........THE ERROR MESSAGE HAS BEEN COPIED TO THE CLIPBOARD PLEASE PASTE IT IN TO THE BUG REPORT.....every time i try and open the game i get them same to messages.
I'm confused as i don't know really what the problem is nor how to paste from a clipboard ( whats a clip board and wheres the bug report ) I have check all the requirements for the game and i do have directx 9 on my comp and i have a Sony vaio fs series which I'm sure has all the right requirement for the game to work. But that directx message has really confused me!

If anyone can help me please reply i just wanna get playing on the game asap and fix this problem

thanks Delboy
I'm having the same problem on my PC but I know Jack about computers I think iv got an Intel(R)82915G/GV/910GL Express chipset family what ever that means and have tried downloading the newest version but still no joy is my PC up to the job of playing this game if not what can I do??? PLEASE HELP SOMEONE ??

[GombeTo]

Same problem with me. Haven't found any solution yet.

[Estranged]

hi im having thesame problem so if any1 has the answer could you please send it to me @ rick1878@btinternet.com thanks

[marsan]

I'm having the same problem on my PC but I know Jack about computers I think iv got an Intel(R)82915G/GV/910GL Express chipset family what ever that means and have tried downloading the newest version but still no joy is my PC up to the job of playing this game if not what can I do??? PLEASE HELP SOMEONE ??

Intel? that means you got a onboard graphic card, right? Broken Sword 4 doesn't support onboard graphic cards

[Tommy gun 2006]

hey people, I just got broken sword 4 and went to install it on to my laptop the install for the game was fine the direct x update was fine but wen i click to play the game i get the msg pop up.....THERE WAS AN ERROR STARTING DIRECTX.....then the second pop up is........THE ERROR MESSAGE HAS BEEN COPIED TO THE CLIPBOARD PLEASE PASTE IT IN TO THE BUG REPORT.....every time i trie and open the game i get them same to messages.
Im comfused as i dont know really what the problem is nor how to paste from a clipboard ( whats a clip board and wheres the bug report ) I have check all the requirements for the game and i do have drect x 9 on my comp and i have a sony vaio fs series which im sure has all the right requirement for the game to work. But that directx message has really confused me!

If anyone can help me please reply i just wanna get playing on the game asap and fix this problem

thanks Delboy

man, im having exactly the same problem ! ! ! ! ! its driving me nuts !!!!!!!!! please , if any1 knows how to fix the problem, please e-mail me!!! beresford06@aol.com

[westscott]

I have just installed Broken Sword 4.

When I try to run it I get the message "There was an error starting Xdirect".

and then the message "The error message has been copied to the clipboard. Please paste it in into the bug report."

The start-up when closes.

I then installed the copy of DirectX 9.0c which comes with the game but the same thing still happens.

I have all the system requirements.

Please help.

Scott

[Estranged]

whats even more annoying is that i loaded Broken sword 4 on to my laptop which is older and has very poor specs and it worked but because its so slow and jumpy i cant play it on there is there a way i could transfer the save onto my pc and play it on there ? would that work ?

[hermes]

I don't think the 'directx didn't start-error' has anything to do with whether or not you have an onboard graphic-card. They do state that BS4 doesn't support on-board cards, but that doesn't mean you can't get it to work.
I had the same error and the reason is that BS4 wont run with the newer graphic-drivers - so try to downgrade you graphics-drivers (preferably by uninstalling the newer ones first - as things might get confused otherwise). When I first installed I used drivers at least half a year old - upgrading to get it to run bettter (what idiocy) resulted in the error. When I rolled back my driver it worked again....

I think it might be possible to get it to run on an onboard card - the problem is that the programming is so bad that even on specs higher than recommended it is rather laggy - so the speed of the game might be very low - and make it unplayable - (also because the control-scheme is really stupid).

[frogbrains]

I can't help you, but I have the same problem myself. I already had DirectX 9, but when the message came up I installed it from the disk. Same problem. Installed off the disk about 10 more times. No different. So THEN I downloaded it off the net and installed. No help. I have an Acer Travelmate 2490, 512mb of RAM. A good enough graphics card to run Broken Sword 3 and a graphics accelerator. Is it maybe that I installed bs4 on my D drive instead of C?

[snake7beckham]

well... I HAVE A SOLUTION FOR YOU GUYS.
I've already posted this about a year from now... anyway..
if you want to play BROKEN SWORD 4 with unsoppurted video card, you have to download a program called 3D-ANALYZE (download it from here: http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/3danalyzer-v234.rar ((it's about 800 kb)) ) or you can visit the official site of the program (http://www.tommti-systems.de)

after downloading it open the program and press (SELECT) and choose the game. after that check these sittings: (1) force SW TnL (2) emulate pixel shader caps (3) force max. pixel shader version 1.4.
then press (RUN).

now the game will work just fine. if the game is working slow make sure to wait about three minutes after pressing RUN.

i have intel 945 family chipset. it's not supported by the game but this program is a miracle. HAVE FUN WITH THIS FANTASTIC GAME.

excuse my english 'cause it's not my native language