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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45802

As promised, Capcom has released a playable demo for
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, allowing you to try out the PC version of this sci-fi action shooter scheduled to be released for PC in June 2007. The demo will let you play through two levels: the Akrid hive and the pirate fortress, the same levels fr

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milly · Contributor Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 22

after I installed the lost planet demo, it says "d3dx9_33.dll" was not found

my graphics card is a BFG 7800 GTX OC.. any ideas?

hairball2 · Contributing Member Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 91

maybe its your directX, install the newest.

Nosferatu · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject:

@ Milly

d3dx9_33.dll and xinput1_3.dll
http://cp.people.overclockers.ru/cgi-bin/dl.pl?id=23060&filename=dlls.rar
d3dx10_33.dll
http://cp.people.overclockers.ru/cgi-bin/dl.pl?id=23063&filename=d3dx10_33.rar

Didn't check it out myself, but I guess that's what you need.

milly · Contributor Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 22

Downloading that file and putting it in system32 made it work

heres an alternative download link for anyone else
http://www.m3fe.com/760/

djRom · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 11:55 pm Post subject:

I think it's interesting that they've released 2 versions for 2 different versions of DirectX. Maybe I'm the only one that finds this interesting that they are doing it, and not many, if any other developers are?

nb411 · Elite Member Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 497

They are just trying to cover all their bases to maximise sales, I'm sure they will do the same with the final release.

djRom · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 2:19 am Post subject:

Well of course, but I wonder how much extra work that had to put into it, to get a version of the game that is dx10.

Nosferatu · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject:

I wonder how much superior is the DX10 version. Any astonishing difference?
Is it anything like switching from dx8 to dx9 in Stalker?

darknothing · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject:

few issues with dx9 and dx10 versions of these demos.

dx10 version vista freezes after 4min of play, (getting out of walker)
dx9 version had to force a restart same place, brought me to BSOD screen.

and from what i seen in both versions, this is a vanilla FPS for the xbox and has no right to be put on pc, the game is just to easy and just to plane for a PC fps.

for xbox well this is a perfect game.

xxxxx+ · Contributor Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 19

Installed this today. Not impressed. Runs like a slug in DX9. It set my grfx to 1280 x 720. Med quality, no AA, 4x AF. Game is just plain boring and runs really slow, choppy. I have an Athlon 64 3700+, NVidia 7900GT (512) 2 GB RAM, win XP. Not bothering until the final game comes out - or a better optimised demo. Just frustrating and a waste of time. The only game which would make me upgrade a the moment, is Crysis - or maybe GRAW 2 (coming soon!).