Failed to initialize 3D engine

[scarydeaddan]

I bought the game today and upon starting it, I got an error reading “Failed to initialize 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211” I have searched around and could not find an answer. Here is my error report:
23/10/2013 - 2::21 - D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE
23/10/2013 - 2::21 - Getting Device Caps Failed
23/10/2013 - 2::21 - D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE
23/10/2013 - 2::21 - CreateDevice
23/10/2013 - 2::21 - D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE
23/10/2013 - 2::21 - CreateDevice failed again
23/10/2013 - 2::21 - Failed to initialise 3D Engine:.\src\app_game.cpp 211
Any help would be appreciated!

[Abs]

I think I had something similar. You wouldn’t happen to be playing on different screens of different resolutions, would you?

Abs

[cliffski]

This seems to be happening to a few people when playing in full-screen mode, which is the default, but you can change this by iopening this file:

\my documents\my games\democracy3\prefs.ini

with notepad and changing

Windowed = 0
to be
Windowed = 1

Then saving and launching the game again. Hopefully that fixes it

[GhostShadow]

The game is 2D. Why did the devs use a 3D Engine? O-O

[hollowfication]

@cliffski

This seems to be happening to a few people when playing in full-screen mode, which is the default, but you can change this by iopening this file:

\my documents\my games\democracy3\prefs.ini

with notepad and changing

Windowed = 0
to be
Windowed = 1

Then saving and launching the game again. Hopefully that fixes it

there no prefs.ini my friend said to me

[ChuckITA]

@hollowfication

@cliffski

This seems to be happening to a few people when playing in full-screen mode, which is the default, but you can change this by iopening this file:

\my documents\my games\democracy3\prefs.ini

with notepad and changing

Windowed = 0
to be
Windowed = 1

Then saving and launching the game again. Hopefully that fixes it

there no prefs.ini my friend said to me

create it with notepad and put in it the following text:

[prefs]
width = 1600
height = 900
windowed = 1

Obviously change 1600 and 900 with your resolution.

[hollowfication]

@ChuckITA

@hollowfication

@cliffski

This seems to be happening to a few people when playing in full-screen mode, which is the default, but you can change this by iopening this file:

\my documents\my games\democracy3\prefs.ini

with notepad and changing

Windowed = 0
to be
Windowed = 1

Then saving and launching the game again. Hopefully that fixes it

there no prefs.ini my friend said to me

create it with notepad and put in it the following text:

[prefs]
width = 1600
height = 900
windowed = 1

Obviously change 1600 and 900 with your resolution.

did not work said 3D Engine:…\src\app_game.cpp 203