Armored Princess direct 3d error please help me !!! thanks

[Akkim]

I will continue to check into my solution - but as of the moment, what I believe appears to be part of the problem is that the various .INI files are not writable with the default permissions provided as part of the Demo Installation package.

After deleting the game.ini file found in c:\users\<username>\my documents\my games\Kings Bounty Princess Demo, I had been attempting to tweak with game.ini in C:\Program Files (x86)\1C Company\King's Bounty. Armored Princess Demo\data.

That's when I found the files were all set to Read Only in Windows. I adjusted that to allow me to modify those files.. after that I was able to adjust the settings and make changes that actually showed up in the USERS game.ini.

So from what I've found, it might be possible this is a problem (since it spans both ATI and nVIDIA users) that is attributed to the Demo's behavior under Windows 7 x64 versions and file permissions not being properly set?

EDIT :: Nevermind, Still Crashing.

Things I have attempted to prevent the Demo from Crashing ::
-- I have uninstalled / reinstalled the demo
-- I have redownloaded the demo from Impulse
-- I have tried BETA Drivers, I have tried CURRENT drivers, I have tried OLDER drivers (I have a nVIDIA GX260).
-- I have been renaming the game.ini in my My Documents location and the game will load up again.

Right now I have it running, will see how long this lasts.. but it's definitely not something I feel is "stable"

Nevermind, as soon as the character creation is complete, the loading screen finishes.. I get sliver of some kind of game display and then it crashed.

As has been posted by many people the text of the error ::

Application aborted!
C:\work\skyfallen\BMRender\rmode.cpp(5509): DirectX call failed: -1, -1, E_FAIL (an undetermined error occurred inside the Direct3D subsystem)

--Micah

[evilbob]

Same boat as you guys. Crashed every few minutes when panning the camera in world view with that annoying direct x error in windows 7. Oddly enough putting the game in windows xp sp3 mode made the game playable with a lot fewer crashes however, i'm now taking the boat to verona and getting the error instantly upon arrival in the first second of the loading video for the island.

Really wish someone would patch this game, even unofficially.

[Kings Bounty Hunter]

I'm having the same problem in KBTL on my mage impossible campaigh, so bloody annoying.

I'm not rolling back my graphic drivers ffs

[bug]

I had the same problem. 195.xx and 196.xx drivers from nvidia are bugged. 191.xx are working fine, seems to be the latest working driver.

[Breadfan]

As explained in other similar posts, this problem is rooted in the `optional` Windows updates that get installed.
Every time Micro$oft include a driver in these, it plays havoc with the `event handlers` within DirectX (those files with names like FILE.cpp).
The only sure way to fix this, is to download the latest NVidia/ATI drivers from NVidia/ATI, then you have to reinstall DirectX to get things back on track.

Personally, I turn off `optional` Windoze updates, they create too many problems, busting things that already worked.