Weird DirectX Issue

[Novek]

My Windows Vista & XP installs have a odd issue with DirectX

On Vista, Programs WinSAT & Dreamscene keep crashing due to dll d3d9.dll

On Windows XP the only issue I've had is with camtasia studio but i can turn off DirectX accelerations and it works fine

I've tried swapping out the ATI card that came with my computer for the NVIDIA one but still same error

On Windows 7 & up this doesn't happen

[TSNH]

Is directx_Jun2010_redist installed?

Windows 7 doesn't use dx9 on desktop (maybe Camtasia uses dx11 on Win7 too), check if directX9 works there with any directX 9 game, look up games you happen to have on pcgamingwiki

[Novek]

2 hours ago, TSNH said:

Is directx_Jun2010_redist installed?

Yes, still same error

2 hours ago, TSNH said:

check if directX9 works there with any directX 9 game, look up games you happen to have on pcgamingwiki

i tried peggle garrys mod & jewel quest on xp vista & 7 and they all work perfectly fine

[Novek]

Camtasia Studio works fine now but only after closing it does it crash

[TSNH]

Is any of the extended kernel-like stuff installed?

[Novek]

10 minutes ago, TSNH said:

Is any of the extended kernel-like stuff installed?

No

[TSNH]

For dreamscene try installing K-Lite Codec Pack 16.6.5 (I believe someone reported some issues with a later version)

Edit, this post: https://msfn.org/board/topic/175262-last-versions-of-software-for-windows-vista-and-windows-server-2008/page/66/#comment-1214028

Is explorer.exe still crashing, if not I think it's Camtasia's own problems at this point

Edited yesterday at 03:33 PM by TSNH

[Novek]

i uninstalled camtasia and installed the codec pack but explorer is still crashing when i try to set a dreamscene

[TSNH]

1 hour ago, Novek said:

codec pack

So now that you have the codec pack, launch MPC-HC that got installed with it and try to play a h264 test video

https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h264

launch LAV splitter video settings - the red icon in the system tray, there is a "Hardware Decoder to use:" in the top middle, test various hardware decoders and check which do and don't work, make sure H.264 is checked under codecs for HW

[Novek]

6 hours ago, TSNH said:

launch MPC-HC that got installed with it and try to play a h264 test video

https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h264

launch LAV splitter video settings - the red icon in the system tray, there is a "Hardware Decoder to use:" in the top middle, test various hardware decoders and check which do and don't work, make sure H.264 is checked under codecs for HW

switching to dxva2 copy back crashes mpc-hc

 

and trying to open lav splitter it crashes

 

[TSNH]

10 hours ago, Novek said:

switching to dxva2 copy back crashes mpc-hc

and trying to open lav splitter it crashes

So it worked initially?, what was it set to? DXVA2(native) or none ?

LAV settings can also be accessed from the start menu, K-Lite Codec Pack\Configuration

There will likely be 2 one for mpchc and one system-wide, set both to whatever worked, if settings crash, redo k-lite codec pack setup and configure those options during setup

Test dreamscene

 

Some applications may not respect LAV configuration settings, in that situation you will usually have to remove DXVA2-related dlls installed by the graphics driver so they will have no chance to use something broken, I'd done this once with AMD drivers

The fact that symptoms are the same between AMD and NVIDIA gpus however makes me think that you have a conflicting other application/driver installed as these are all old vista-supported gpus not something that needs custom drivers

EDIT: And did you uninstall AMD drivers with DDU before installing nvidia? (latest for vista - DDU v18.0.4.6.exe)

Edited 4 hours ago by TSNH

[Novek]

24 minutes ago, TSNH said:

Some applications may not respect LAV configuration settings, in that situation you will usually have to remove DXVA2-related dlls installed by the graphics driver so they will have no chance to use something broken, I'd done this once with AMD drivers

Wow!!!!!!!!!!! This worked I can use dreamscene now. Thank you.