Worldcraft Laptop Problems?

[Lunaxe]

Hi there, I have an Acer Aspire 5532 laptop with the following specs.- AMD Athlon 64 processor TF-20 (1.6) GHZ, ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics up to 1408MB HyperMemory, 15.6 inch LCD, 3 GB memory, and 160 GB HDD. I installed both the Worldcraft 3.3 program and "Quaked" it with the Quake Adapter (in the normal "Program Files", not "Program Files (x86)". Unfortunately when I run Worldcraft I cannot select objects/entities in the 3D viewport. Another more infrequent issue is when I simply right click in any viewport Worldcraft crashes. Both of these issues may be a problem with my computer driver(s)? That's what I've heard anyways... please help and thank you!

Laptop- Acer Aspire AS5532-5535 Specs (Athlon 64 TF-20 1.6GHz, 3GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium) - Laptops - CNET Reviews

[Baker]

Video card drivers probably.

See this thread and I hope it helps ...

Inside3d Forums :: View topic - worldcraft annoyances

[Lunaxe]

Thank you and i had seen this before... still rather perplexed as to where to find an appropriate driver I checked the graphics card official site but there's so many downloads and im not that computer savvy... any help??

Maybe this site?http://driverscollection.com/?H=Rade...%203200&By=ATI

[Baker]

Well ... if all else fails there are other map editors.

Quake Navigator lists some of them.

The is BSP, Quark (Quake Army Knife) and quite a few others of varying popularity.

You could also try Worldcraft 1.6 Func_Msgboard: Worldcraft 1.6 FULL which I don't even think uses OpenGL so it doesn't care about video card drivers, since it uses no hardware acceleration at all.

[Lunaxe]

Alright thanks alot man ill get back to you with news on how things go!

[MH]

Older versions of WC actually did use D3D Retained Mode (if you selected the "Hardware Acceleration" option), which is an old scenegraph API that used to ship with Direct 3D back in the Cretaceous Era. It relies on d3d_rm.dll being present on your system, and that's absent from newer versions of Windows.

The dirty secret is that you can grab d3d_rm.dll from a Windows XP machine, copy it into your WorldCraft folder, and - aside from WorldCraft bugs - things will work.