Unable to create D3D device

gamingman · Post by **gamingman** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:34 pm

I am using Mac OS Tiger 10.4 and am still trying to get Portal by Valve to run. The only problem is that it says "Unable to create D3D device" and crashes, no matter what dxlevel I put into the launch options.

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:30 pm

gamingman wrote:I am using Mac OS Tiger 10.4 and am still trying to get Portal by Valve to run. The only problem is that it says "Unable to create D3D device" and crashes, no matter what dxlevel I put into the launch options.

Hello

Please tell us which `wine --version` and attach terminal output.

gamingman · Post by **gamingman** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:00 pm

I have:
The newest version of Wine, as I installed only about a week ago through MacPorts.

Mac OS 10.4.1 Tiger

A fresh build of X11 through MacPorts

X11 and wine are working very well together, but this Direct3D problem is annoying, as Portal and the rest of the Orange Box is what I intended to play in the first place using Wine.

By the way, Steam works terrific!

doh123 · Post by **doh123** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:14 am

Have you tried any other 3D rendering apps in Wine... do they work?

Are you running it in a virtual desktop?

gamingman · Post by **gamingman** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:00 pm

No, I have not tried any other 3d rendering applications, but it is not in a virtual desktop. What is another good (but free) 3d application to try?

doh123 · Post by **doh123** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:12 pm

gamingman wrote:No, I have not tried any other 3d rendering applications, but it is not in a virtual desktop. What is another good (but free) 3d application to try?

neverball for windows is a good test.

But first just try running in a virtual desktop

gamingman · Post by **gamingman** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:49 am

Neverball works perfectly in wine. So how can I fix the Unable to create D3D device error?

gamingman · Post by **gamingman** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:51 am

By the way, I do not want to purchase a virtual desktop application. That's why I am trying to get wine to work with Portal.

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:13 pm

gamingman wrote:By the way, I do not want to purchase a virtual desktop application.

Nobody told you to. Use Wine's virtual desktop. It's on the graphics tab in winecfg.

gamingman · Post by **gamingman** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:49 pm

OK, now I can HEAR the main menu, but all I see is a white screen. If I move my mouse where the menu buttons should be, I hear the sound of that, too. How can I fix this last issue? The terminal output repeats this about a million times:

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fixme:d3d_shader:shader_glsl_select >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glUseProgramObjectARB @ glsl_shader.c / 4562

Interspaced with a few of these:

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fixme:d3d_surface:surface_load_ds_location (0x1e0720) Not supported with fixed up depth stencil

gamingman · Post by **gamingman** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:45 pm

Also, before those two errors begin to spawn, I see various d3d errors relating to "shader"[/code]

Gorky · Post by **Gorky** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 1:19 am

I got a similar error:

Unable to create D3D device: 1272x883

So, I opened Users/[my name]/AppData/Roaming/Need For speed World/
and then there is a config file.

I found out that 1272x883 is the resolution it wants to create the game on. When I changed that to 1280x1024, it started up perfectly.

So I suppose something is going wrong in the saving of screen resolution, on which the game fails to start.

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