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D3D:Error when initializing pixel shader support. Disabling shaders.

This error's a bit strange to me. Do you not have the Direct X libraries loaded on this machine? Or have an old video card that doesn't support shaders?

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Glide:Unable to load glide2x library, glide emulation disabled

You have glide emulation via a glide wrapper enabled in your config and don't provide a glide2x.dll/glide2x.ovl/glide2x_emu.ovl glide wrapper. You can either: disable the glide emulation in your config, swap to the non-wrapper based glide emulation, or provide a the wrapper files in your \dosroot folder (likely the same as your exe folder, unless you are using a frontend). Look for "[glide]" in your config file for further details.

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1D3D:Error when initializing pixel shader support. Disabling shaders.

Besides what Kolano said above...are your video drivers up to date?

Running some ancient intel integrated chipset without shader support?

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1D3D:Error when initializing pixel shader support. Disabling shaders.

Besides what Kolano said above...are your video drivers up to date?

Well I'm running a refurnished Windows 7 that I just got a month or two ago. DOSbox 0.74 has no comments like this ... what would you recommend in order to get rid of this error msg.?

Phil

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OptimalDesigns wrote:

D3D:Error when initializing pixel shader support. Disabling shaders.

This error's a bit strange to me. Do you have the Direct X libraries loaded on this machine? Or have an old video card that doesn't support shaders?

OptimalDesigns wrote:

Glide:Unable to load glide2x library, glide emulation disabled

You have glide emulation via a glide wrapper enabled in your config and don't provide a glide2x.dll/glide2x.ovl/glide2x_emu.ovl glide wrapper. You can either: disable the glide emulation in your config, swap to the non-wrapper based glide emulation, or provide a the wrapper files in your \dosroot folder (likely the same as your exe folder, unless you are using a frontend). Look for "[glide]" in your config file for further details.

Disabled glide by setting glide=false and splash=false in my conf file. Still getting the shader errors but glide are gone. here is what remains:

1CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file C:\Users\Phil\AppData\Local\DOS
2Box\dosbox-SVN-Daum.conf
3D3D:Error when initializing pixel shader support. Disabling shaders.
4PIT: Hacks disabled
5forcerate I got ''
6
7D3D:Error when initializing pixel shader support. Disabling shaders.
8MIDI:Opened device:win32
9ISA Plug & Play BIOS enabled
10VGA BIOS occupies segment 0xc000-0xc7ff
11WinPcap has to be installed for the NE2000 to work.
12D3D:Device is lost, locktexture() failed...
13D3D:Device is lost, locktexture() failed...
14D3D:No texture to draw to!?
15SHELL:Redirect output to scrout
16ooo

Any other msg that suggests changes to my config file?

Thanks, Phil

Change the output= setting to something other than "direct3d", or just use the official 0.74 build that doesn't have the added complications that seem unnecessary for your purpose.

I went back to the vanilla DOSbox and all these errors went away! I'm doing math stuff with maybe a plot once in a while, so the simpler DOSbox does fine.

Thanks for your input!
Phil

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Change the output= setting to something other than "direct3d", or just use the official 0.74 build that doesn't have the added complications that seem unnecessary for your purpose.

Well I'm back to this problem ... the vanilla DOSbox worked for all but one step, thus had to drop it.

Yes, my CONF file shows 'output=direct3d' ... Possible values: surface, overlay, opengl, openglnb, openglhq, ddraw, direct3d. I'll tr4youtput=ddraw ... think that will work?

I tried output=ddraw and here is what I got:

1DOSBox version SVN-Daum
2Copyright 2002-2013 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
3---
4GUI: Press Ctrl-F10 to capture/release mouse.
5     Save your configuration and restart DOSBox if your settings do not take effect.
6CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\DOSBox\dosbox-SVN-Daum.conf
7D3D:Error when initializing pixel shader support. Disabling shaders.
8forcerate I got ''
9
10D3D:Error when initializing pixel shader support. Disabling shaders.
11MIDI:Opened device:win32
12ISA Plug & Play BIOS enabled
13Glide:LFB access: read-write
14Glide:Unable to load glide2x library, glide emulation disabled
15WinPcap has to be installed for the NE2000 to work.
16D3D:Device is lost, locktexture() failed...
17D3D:Device is lost, locktexture() failed...
18D3D:No texture to draw to!?
19SHELL:Redirect output to output

My app uses no video nor game drivers ... what is that MIDI:Opened device:win32? It that win32 a 32 bit words directory? Won't that cause problems in DOSbox?

Phil

The default in standard DOSBox is output=surface. You should also have pixelshader=none , if you don't already. At any rate, pixel shaders are purely aesthetic and probably entirely irrelevant to anything you are doing; it should not matter if shaders are disabled.

You may want to consider trying the EmuCR build available at http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/SVN_Builds ; it has none of the enhanced features of the Daum build but may very well include whatever bugfix was introduced that allows your program to run.

I do not know what makes you think win32 is a "32 bit words directory". The MIDI message is entirely standard at DOSBox startup and nothing you should be concerned about. If you really want to get rid of it for some strange reason, you can probably change the line mididevice=default to mididevice=none.

We really don't support any other than vanilla builds.

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We really don't support any other than vanilla builds.

I didn't know ... Thanks.

Phil