Armored Princess direct 3d error please help me !!! thanks

[geldonyetich]

I can confirm that it seems that version 195.62 of the NVIDIA Windows 7 32-bit drivers are a cause of the trouble. When I downgraded to 185.85 I was able to run the game fine, but 195.62 crashes before reaching the the main menu but after the initial splash videos with an error message like the one you can see in the original post.

This is when attempting to start the King's Bounty: Armored Princess demo, I can only assume full retail has the same problem.

These previously selected solution of deleting game.ini does not apply because I had no such file. (Probably because I had yet to run the game successfully prior to downgrading my drivers.)

[Elwin]

I heard Nvidia said the problem is fixed with newest beta .. cant be sure tough. I am fine with my 191.07

[xabbott]

Originally Posted by Elwin

I heard Nvidia said the problem is fixed with newest beta .. cant be sure tough. I am fine with my 191.07

I tried the beta, still had the error.

I went back to 185.85 and the problem seems to be gone. In the end it wasn't too bad because my performance went up across the board and my flat panel scaling options work again. Yay.

Hopefully Nvidia/1C get it all sorted eventually though.

[geldonyetich]

Judging by this thread on the official NVIDIA boards, the same problem exists on King's Bounty: The Legend as well. Same solution, roll back to pre-current NVIDIA drivers.

[idontlikestaem]

I had the exact same error message but have an ATI 4870, so I didn't think it was the drivers.

Fixed it by:
- installing the demo
- tried running the demo and got same error
- went into the demo\game config file and set the screen resolution to my default (x-1920 y-1080).
- the demo started working!
- this created and .ini file for the demo.
- went into the users\yourname\ documents\games\kb demo folder and found the .ini file.
- copied this into the full game's \documents\games\armored princess folder.

The full game started

Hope this helps some people.