Topic: Error while initializing DirectX!

When you try to run the game displays a message:

Perpetuum Error!
Error while initializing DirectX!
Try running Perpetuum in Safe mode. ("perpetuum.exe -safe")

I have installed the latest DirectX 9.0c
Windows XP SP 3

How do I solve this problem?

Re: Error while initializing DirectX!

I got this error after I updating my video drivers recently. Then I started the client again and it worked fine.

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Im re-install witndows now. After download ill try run client again.

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Same problem. I think my video dont have vertex shaders 2.0 that why i cant run client.

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What kind of video cards do you guys have?

Re: Error while initializing DirectX!

Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family  (128 Mb)

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Yeah, I'm afraid that is not supported hmm

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May I ask why? The intel mobile 945 has the GMA 950 grafics chipset. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#Specifications
the laptop grafics card support pixel shader 2 and vertex shader 3...

Re: Error while initializing DirectX!

So I'm getting the same error with a Grafics card that supports Pixel shader 2 and vertex shader 3... (Intel GMA 950). So what's the problem?

Re: Error while initializing DirectX!

The Intel GMA series don't actually support vertex shaders, they support the emulation of it via software.
Also, do note that e.g. netbooks (the main utilizers of the GMA series) only support 1024x600, which is less than the minimum 1024x768.

[14:15:15] <Freya Sabbat> ...Dear god, the Devs are as bad as us

Re: Error while initializing DirectX!

visual c++ error

R6002
-floating point support not loading

.............................................

first appeared on my laptop,
now on desktop pc nvidia 9400 512mb/128bit

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the GMA supports vertex shaders but uses the cpu to calculate them rather than the GPU (at least that's what intel tells me). Even if my netbook would hve a resolution lower that the minimum, which it doesn't, it should still run windowed... but it doesn't

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The emulation does not work the same way as a hardware support.
If you are really interested, if we would skip every error the game would run with a nice, white blank window. That's the best that a gma 950 can achieve.

I know this because I own netbook with gma 950, and I used it during beta.
So in short, software emulation is not supported.