First post, by Arketa
Hello!
I have been experiencing extremely random hangs (and sometimes crashes to the dekstop) w/my game on my new pc. After trying lots of troubleshooting and advice from various posts, I found a program called whatishang to try to figure out if there was anything else I could try.
Running this when it hangs seems to suggest that the program is still sometimes looking in system32 for d3d8.dll?
When I first installed FFXI to this new machine, I also installed dgvoodoo2 before playing it.
I (turned back on and still) have the watermark showing in my game, the MS folder files in the same directory as dgvoodoo2 v2.55.4, its path pointed to ./, d3dcompiler_47.dll swapped for the one from the download site in both syswow64 and system32 (one of the suggestions from a post I found), settings to match my old system, basically as far as I'm aware, I didn't miss anything with setup.
Is there something I'm missing?
I copied d3d8.dll from my old pc's system32 folder to system32 on my new pc and am just kind of running around waiting for it to hang again - it really is suuuper random - but if this was the issue, I'm confused, as I thought that dgvoodoo2 was supposed to be catching this? I may be misunderstanding the purpose tho, beyond "make your old af game work on your new machine" haha
Thanks for any insight anyone may have!