how do you fix a booting message problem

[vick2008]

Whenever i try to open a game with dolphin, a booting message shows up, and nothing happens afterward. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

[Agozer]

What game?

[vick2008]

The game is Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4. When i try to open the file, it shows two messages. One of the messages is "booting" and the other one is "Direct3D Device Creation failed" I have no idea of what to do. Thanks in advance.

[Agozer]

The game is Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4. When i try to open the file, it shows two messages. One of the messages is "booting" and the other one is "Direct3D Device Creation failed" I have no idea of what to do. Thanks in advance.
What graphics card do you have? Or rather, graphics chip? Direct3D device creation failed usually refers to the fact that your "card" cannot render in Direct3D or you don't have DirectX9 installed.

[vick2008]

My System Spec is:
OS: Windows XP Home. Processor: Intel Pentium III,~730MHz. Graphic Card: Intel(R)82810E Graphics Controller. Memory: 190MB RAM. DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0C (4.09.0000.0904). Sound Card: Intel(R) Integrated Audio.

Is the problem with my Graphic card? or my sound card? How can i fix the problem.

[Agozer]

To put it bluntly, you can fix the problem by buying an actual, good video card. The Intel chip does not even support the pixel shader version (2.0 IIRC) that is required by Dolphin.

Furthermore, like I said earlier the "Direct3D device creation failed" message points to to the fact that you might have some serious problems with your drivers for that chip. Do any other fully 3D applications (emulators, games or otherwise) work without problems?

[vick2008]

Yeah. My computer plays pokemon stadium 2 with Project 64. Although i had to change the color quality from 24 bit to 16 bit, it worked pretty well. Is there anything i can do without changing my video card?

[DOGG]

Your CPU is way, WAY underpowered for any kind of GC emulating.

Buy a cube is the best advice you're going to get.

[Agozer]

Your CPU is way, WAY underpowered for any kind of GC emulating.

Buy a cube is the best advice you're going to get.
Well, everyone has an underpowered CPU, albeit his is even more so. Still, no matter how you look at it, the real root of the problem lies in the graphics chip.

...

But yeah. The CPU is slow.

[vick2008]

Thank you.

I'll try to get a new graphic chip, but it may not be anytime soon. Right now, i don't have $200 to buy a new graphic chip.

[vick2008]

Do you know any good graphic card that i can buy. I don't want to waste my money to buy a card that doesn't work.

[ChaosCode]

6800 is a nice card :P

[DOGG]

Do you know any good graphic card that i can buy. I don't want to waste my money to buy a card that doesn't work.
Dude don't buy a new card!

It would be a HUGE waste of money. It won't enable you to play games in dolphin. It would just allow you to run them with less graphical errors, at a bit faster speed.

Your computer is also too slow to take advantage of the power modern cards offer.

Only invest in a card if you want to play old 3d computer games

[ChaosCode]

Dude don't buy a new card!

It would be a HUGE waste of money. It won't enable you to play games in dolphin. It would just allow you to run them with less graphical errors, at a bit faster speed.

Your computer is also too slow to take advantage of the power modern cards offer.

Only invest in a card if you want to play old 3d computer games


I agree with DOGG here, a GC is what 99$ new? Only reason I upgrade is becuase I beta test.

[Blacklord]

Yup u need a new comp. And no matter what agozer say Intel chips are fairly good. Indeed they have a fixed pipeline and no shader support but overall performance is just a high as a 6800. Well at least the Extreme Graphics 2. Not sure about 1.

[GCFreak]

Oh dear, another Naruto thread. Didn't you read the sticky?

Knuckles, where are you? :P

[Guru64]

If you want to play Gamecube games on your PC, just forget about it. Dolphin is really slow at the moment and will remain like this for a long time. If you really want to play Gamecube games, get a Gamecube. They're cheaper than buying new PC parts.

If you still want to try Dolphin and don't care about games running slowly, having bad graphics or nor running at all, I'd just build a new PC from scratch. You're current PC is too slow to run Dolphin, even if it has a new graphics card. We can help you with deciding which parts to get.

[DOGG]

And no matter what agozer say Intel chips are fairly good. Indeed they have a fixed pipeline and no shader support but overall performance is just a high as a 6800. Well at least the Extreme Graphics 2. Not sure about 1.
Dude that's a load of crap. A mere ATi 9200 SE shits all over it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2003/09/03/integrated_graphics_performance/page14.html

[Blacklord]

I have one buddy and i know. I also had a ATI 9100 GTI. Intel chips beat other chips in other abilities.
And if u would read that better u would see that what u were looking at was the intel !865 not the 82852/82855GM/GME a.k.a Intel Extreme Graphics 2. And now intel is releaseing their kickass new chip Intel Extreme Graphics 3 which has all pixel shader support and a lot of pipelines.

[Doomulation]

Intel cards are crap. For integrated solutions, there are eve nvidia cards, and they are way better. Not sure about ati, though.
But as a general rule, avoid any built-in graphics chip, they are piece of crap in the end.
It will never take place that an integrated solution will beat a real gfx card.

[Agozer]

Integrated graphics chips should never be used in a desktop computer. Period. Laptops are, of course, a different matter.

No integrated chip will beat a video card in performance, and as far as chips from Intel are concerned, they have poor compatibility lack a surpising amount of features that graphics cards have. Plus, sharing the RAM with the system doesn't exactly score any points either.

Graphics chips are a gamer's worst nightmare.

[AlphaWhelp]

http://video-games.search.ebay.com/gamecube_Systems_W0QQsacatZ62054

If you don't have $200 for a video card, maybe you've got $70 for a gamecube system and several games to go with it?

This isn't really an abandonware or piracy forum. Attempting to play a game to completion on Dolphin is about as fun as watching paint dry. If you're interested in seeing what people (and your computer) can do, check out Dolphin, if you want to play games, though, seriously, get a Gamecube. Not only is the compatability for Gamecube emulation woefully low, the games that do run are pitiful. A cutting-edge server running Dolphin might get you 1/4th the speed of a gamecube.

[DOGG]

I have one buddy and i know. I also had a ATI 9100 GTI. Intel chips beat other chips in other abilities.
And if u would read that better u would see that what u were looking at was the intel !865 not the 82852/82855GM/GME a.k.a Intel Extreme Graphics 2. And now intel is releaseing their kickass new chip Intel Extreme Graphics 3 which has all pixel shader support and a lot of pipelines.
Can you stop trying to say intel integrated gfx are good? I know WTF i'm on about, you're obviously an uninformed intel fanboy.

I'll quote from the article i linked: "The 3D graphics component of the i865G northbridge, alias 82865G - GMCH, is called "Extreme Graphics 2.""

How can you say that "Intel chips beat other chips in other abilities"? What does that mean? It's complete BS as intel chips usually lack features which even cheap modern cards have. What are they better at? Running things at super slow speeds with shit gfx?

As for "kickass" for IEG3, LOL... Here, another benchmark for you to digest:

IEG3 vs ATi X600 (a cheap card)
http://www.hkepc.com/hwdb/ieg3-3.htm

As you can see, the ATi runs games at 20+ fps whereas IEG3 runs them at less than 2.