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Title: Does anyone know this means
Post by: santan on December 15, 2007, 05:55:51 pm

I think something is wrong wit my dyefire thing.When i click it it says Cannot init d3d OR grf file has a problem.Im confused ???

Title: Re: Does anyone know this means
Post by: AceJay on December 15, 2007, 08:02:00 pm

Read the stickied topic.

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CANNOT INIT D3D OR GRF HAS A PROBLEM ERRORS:

This essentially means you need to update your Video card drivers or download/update your DirectX. Check here for more in-depth info: [Here] (http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/support/questioncontent.asp?noticeSeqNo=38&Page=1&Condition=all&mNum=0)

Title: Re: Does anyone know this means
Post by: Denia on December 15, 2007, 09:05:48 pm

Not always the case. It can be caused by netmeeting/remote share being activated. If updating directX doesn't help you or updating drivers doesn't help, please see the fix below.

As for the ""Cannot inid d3d OR grf file has problem."

Quote from: GM Denia on November 16, 2007, 01:49:00 pm

A fix I found via google, the one colored in purple seems to be what usually will do it for players ^^

-PLEASE make sure your system meets the minimum requirements for RO. (voodoo series cards sometimes don't work properly, same with Mobility Rage/Radeon cards.. they might have fixed this problem with the newer cards though.)

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
OS: Windows 98se/me/2000/XP
CPU: Pentium - 500 or equivalent
(AMD CPU, Celeron)
RAM: 128MB
VGA: DirectX 3D Support
VGA: Card with 8 MB video memory
SOUND: DirectSound support
OTHER: DirectX 8.0

RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS:
OS: Windows 98se/me/2000/XP
CPU: Pentium - 700 or better
(AMD CPU, Celeron)
RAM: 256MB
VGA: DirectX 3D Support
VGA: Card with 32 MB video memory
SOUND: DirectSound equivalent /3D Surround Sound Support
OTHER: DirectX 8.0 or better.

Supported VGA Chipsets:
NVidia GeForce 2 MX or better
ATI RADEON or better
MATROX G400 or better

Compatible but may experience problems
NVidia Riva TNT or equivalent
Voodoo3 or equivalent
S3 Savage or equivlaent
ATI Rage128, Mobility rage/radeon or equivalents

KNOWN FIXES FOR CANNOT INIT D3D OR GRF FILE HAS PROBLEM

-Update your video driver and direct x.
-Make sure your video driver is listed in the ragnarok setup (to get to set up, go to the folder you have ro installed in and click the icon that says Setup). <= Kaypha mentioned this one.. if it's not there, install your video driver.
-Set to full screen mode.
-Lower your settings in the RO Setup (usually, this doesn't make much of a difference but I know of one case where it did).
-Be sure the resolution you're using in the RO setup is the same one you use on your computer.
-Check to see if you're using 'Direct3D HAL' in the RO Setup. If not, choose that one. If you are, choose the other.
-Make sure Remote desktop sharing isn't enabled (to do so, open up netmeeting, and under tools, go to Remote Desktop Sharing and go through the whole setup thing. After that completes, go back to tools and uncheck Remote desktop sharing to disable it). Remote Desktop has a nasty habit of sometimes not allowing other applications to use directdraw.
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DRIVERS/DIRECTX

DirectX: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx
Intel Video Drivers - http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support
Nvidia Video Drivers - http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
ATI Video Drivers - http://ati.com/support/driver.html

If none of this works, run the Directx diags and look for problems there. to run these diags, go Start => Run => type "dxdiag"

Once you get there, check out the Display tab. This will allow you to make sure directdraw and direct3d are working properly and enabled.