DX10 crash on launch
 

I have a Radeon 4870x2, played NecrovisioN a week ago with no problems in DX10, advanced a couple of levels and was enjoying the game. Today I have updated ATI Catalyst drivers from 9.2 to 9.3, and also patched the game to 1.1. Now it crashes on launch in DX10 mode, however it works in DX9. No idea if the crash is caused by the driver or the patch (or both).

The game generates a huge dump file (87 mb), I have RARed it (1.5 mb) at put it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/21119149...-2740.rar.html

Hope it helps

Please send the detailed DirectX report to our support team (support@1cpublishing.eu). As both files appeared very recently its hard to say what caused such issue, but we'll investigate this problem.

It's caused by the ATI drivers, I have tried previous Catalyst (9.2) and game works fine patched to 1.1

Ok, thanks for info, then will have to cope with ATI latest drivers;)

just copy this atidxx32.dll into your folder where the .exe file is located.
this will solve the problem without installing catalyst 9.2 !

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CVF60S42

(unzip first)

I'm already doing this workaround to make it work until a proper fix is released. Just wanted to let developers know that Catalyst 9.4 drivers still have the same issue with Necrovision.

I have the same issue. Using 9.4 currently.

Workaround helps me too.

Interesting enough, when game crashes on launch, if checking details, it describes that issue is with atidxx32.dll (faulty module).

But then, I have no atidxx32.dll on my system at all. ATI drivers only install atidxx64.dll in Windows\system32 folder (using 64bit Vista). Could it be that game thinks it's 32bit Vista and tries to find 32bit drivers, instead of using proper 64bit ones?

Out of curiosity, what happens if you make a COPY of atidxx64.dll, rename it atidxx32.dll and put it in your system32 folder? And if you put it in necrovision/bin?

Already tried that.
Didn't do any good.

Anyway, just to report, this issue seems fixed with 9.6 drivers. I don't need anymore atidxx32.dll workarond to play NecroVision in DX10 mode.