What is your directx version? May causes problems

Forgot to mention the os is windows 98 . The installed is version 9 .

For V3, I would stick at DX7 at highest

For V3, I would stick at DX7 at highest

The game itself asks for DX8 to be installed

And did you actually run the DX8 installer? Unfortunately, DirectX9 (pick any version release) does NOT necessarily install everything that previous DirectX versions might have provided. So I would suggest running the DirectX 8 installer. The following ancient pages may help with doing this and give you some useful tips once you get up and running (i.e., graphics double buffering vs triple buffering for Voodoo3):

README: https://web.archive.org/web/20030610032748/ht … port/index.html
Troubleshooting: https://web.archive.org/web/20030213140008fw_ … ml/troubles.htm
Playing Max Payne: https://web.archive.org/web/20030623194144fw_ … tml/playing.htm

And did you actually run the DX8 installer?

yes I also did that otherwise there is another error about that game needs Dx8 to be installed

Did you by any chance try to run the Version 1.05 Max Payne demo on this particular machine before you installed the full game?

akula65 wrote on 2024-05-07, 20:31:

Unfortunately, DirectX9 (pick any version release) does NOT necessarily install everything that previous DirectX versions might have provided.

Last I checked only the releases starting with Feb 2007 lack the base DX files for 98 (they cannot be directly installed on 98 anyway). IINM Dec 2006 should include everything.

Did you by any chance try to run the Version 1.05 Max Payne demo on this particular machine before you installed the full game?

no I didn't run the demo

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-05-07, 19:07:

For V3, I would stick at DX7 at highest

Voodoo 3 is 100% completely DX9.3c compatible.

laios67 wrote on 2024-05-07, 12:52:

Trying to start Max Payne but no succes . The configuration is Pentium 3 1000 Voodoo 3 3000 drivers 1.07 . Max payne v1.05 but also tried all the older with every fix avaiable .I get always the error : "exception FPU precision assumed to be 53bits" anybody knows any remedy for this ?

Pretty sure this is the CPU's FPU and not the GPU error.

Curiously I found a similar question about Max Payne 2 in an archived post at 3DRealms forum:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140602173318/ht … read.php?t=6844

for more FPU stuff: http://stereopsis.com/FPU.html

Matchstick wrote on 2024-05-08, 21:50:

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-05-07, 19:07:

For V3, I would stick at DX7 at highest

Voodoo 3 is 100% completely DX9.3c compatible.

In my case installing anything over DX8 would corrupt the visuals on any game run/game exit so that's why I decided to stick to DX7

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-05-09, 03:19:

In my case installing anything over DX8 would corrupt the visuals on any game run/game exit so that's why I decided to stick to DX7

Max Payne does not even launch without having DX8 or higher installed. It requires d3d8.dll.

eddman wrote on 2024-05-09, 07:45:

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-05-09, 03:19:

In my case installing anything over DX8 would corrupt the visuals on any game run/game exit so that's why I decided to stick to DX7

Max Payne does not even launch without having DX8 or higher installed. It requires d3d8.dll.

In other words, I was disregarding V3 for Max Payne... (I know it uses DX8)

Max Payne officially supports the 3dfx Voodoo3 (it's the minimum 3dfx hardware that is supported due to how it deals with texture memory) so it's something else.

There should be a rule about the awful common blind advice of directx downgrading. I personally never done it to fix some game and never suggest it

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-05-07, 19:07:

In my case installing anything over DX8 would corrupt the visuals on any game run/game exit so that's why I decided to stick to DX7

That is very weird. I am running a Voodoo 3 3000 on windows 98se with DX9.3c and I have zero issues. There is something else wrong with your setup if you can't run anything over DX7.

Matchstick wrote on 2024-05-09, 16:25:

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-05-07, 19:07:

In my case installing anything over DX8 would corrupt the visuals on any game run/game exit so that's why I decided to stick to DX7

That is very weird. I am running a Voodoo 3 3000 on windows 98se with DX9.3c and I have zero issues. There is something else wrong with your setup if you can't run anything over DX7.

I didn't install DX9, the problem happened after DX8 installation so I never bothered trying DX9

Curiously I found a similar question about Max Payne 2 in an archived post at 3DRealms forum:

Hmm yes indeed same issue although in this case is windows xp . I'll see what is running in the background

after a while...

I closed almost everything of background but the same