D3d Error Resident Evil 4

[Martha Vanschaick]

Fluffyposted in steamcommunity and residentevilmodding that Capcom's patches probably made many mods unusable. For example, the Lady Dimitrescu skin for RE2 works just fine, being recent and made for the latest patch, while the stuff that was last updated a year ago doesn't work at all.

Long story short, I'm having a strange issue when trying to run resident evil on my Windows95 desktop. If I set display to 640x480 16 bit, then run the game, the computer will black screen and freeze.

I'm going to give you my advice. Yes Resident Evil and other games of that engine from that Capcom era can be difficult even on systems of the time. That said, I would never run windows 95 over Windows 98SE. In my experience you will encounter more random issues on Windows 95 of any flavor particularly around 3d accelerated games. Others mileage may vary.

ATi had some flakey drivers back then... other than try another set (if you can find them), I'd recommend making sure that you've got Direct X 6/7 with DirectX Media Runtime installed. I have both RE and RE2 for Windows and I seem to recall they both require the Intel Indeo 5 video decoder to be installed alongside DirectX Media in order for the games to run due to the in-game cinematics. For what it's worth, all my systems run Windows 95, so that probably isn't the problem.

There is also a bug in the original Resident Evil that causes the game to exit to the desktop right after the first zombie reveal, if I recall. There was some kind of patch/work-around for that. I'll post back after I go over my archives to see what I find...

Thanks for the advice. I do have another 98SE laptop but that one doesn't have directX support video card. I will try to fresh install a 98SE on another CF card for this PC. The main reason I kept this one on WIN95 is because it has all the original NEC add-on softwares and drivers so I kinda want to keep it this way.

Thanks for the reply. I tried to install indeo5 but it says I already have a newer version. I got DirectX 8 installed at this point and still no luck. I think the system tries to run the program but for some reason hangs. I can hear the CRT monitor switching and clicking , guess its the graphics card then.

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