Killap 1.2 and dx10 in vista windowed mode

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tzvibish

First time out of the vault
Hi, I patched Fallout2 the other day (killap 1.2), one of the main reasons being that I wanted to play in windowed mode. So, I went over to ddraw to configure. Whenever I try to use either modes 4 or 5, those modes being the dx9 modes, I get an error on startup that says "Failure initializing input devices". I assume that this is a problem with dx10, but it won't let me run the game in compatability. The game works fine on mode 0, so maybe it isn't a dx10 problem. Eithe way, system specs are:

DELL XPS 1530
Centrino Dual Core 1.7 GHz
3G RAM
Nvidia 8600M GT
Vista Home Premium

I hope someone here can help me
 
killap includes an older version (1.29) of ddraw written by Timeslip.

Timeslip's website with a newer version (1.35d) which may help and is gotten from here.

Also timeslip's thread on NMA is this one.

~Phoenix Claws~

PS: I'm not using vista so I don't know anything more that can help you though.
 
This problem has come up a few times. afaik, it's purely a vista issue. Sometimes you can fix it by setting the BackgroundKeyboard and BackgroundMouse lines in ddraw.ini to 1, but otherwise there's not much you can do.

Edit: The usual disable UAC/run fallout as admin stuff is worth a try too.
 
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