prism3d engine error on: 18 wheels of steel haulin
I had a customer who had purchased this game but couldn’t get it to run on her 2.8 Ghz Pentium4 system.
After some investigation, it turns out that this games needs a 3d accelerator video card.
Well, I just happen to have a Nvidia geForce FX5500 video card.
So I plug it in, install the latest drivers from the internet, reinstall 18WoSH and when I start the game, it displays a small window that says: prism3d engine error.
The valuesoft online technical support suggests getting the latest video drivers (hold on, that bit of advice is dated dec 2002… 6 years ago…)
Some forums suggest that some video cards are “too advanced” for the game, and so the game fails because it cannot handle some of the newer 3d settings. And it seems that most people suggest switching off the extra 3d features once the game starts… but I cant start the game… catch 22
After mucking around with all sorts of nvidia settings, I tell the customer that this game just cannot work… and its best she try to get her money back (which she did get refunded).
It’s always funny how stuff can work out that way. I used to have an FX5500 that was notoriously picky with which drivers I used. In some cases, the only place to find compatible drivers is on the manufactures website, which seem “moldy oldie” but work like a charm with the hardware they were made for.
Did you check the version of DirectX that was installed? Just noticed that the developers website has the minimum spec over here which doesn’t look like it would be one of those that needs to be run in something like DOSBox. (Think of original MS-DOS compiled Lemmings or Halloween Harry) http://www.scssoft.com/18-wheels-of-steel-haulin.php
Yep, I checked directX… it was the latest.
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It looks like SCS relaunched a few of their games in the last half of 2008, if this guy is still in contact it might be advice to grab the demo of either one of the truck sims they have as well as installing the latest WHQL or beta non-WHQL drivers for their Nvidia card to see if either or both of these applications corrects the engine error.
My opinion is that these types of game engines look good in screenshots and the like but aren’t very well QA’s when it comes to compatibility with changes in DirectX versions or Windows Service Pack changes that affect the graphics system.
The tech page for the prism3D engine looks pretty scant and doesn’t mention anything about licensing or DirectX / OpenGL build utilities.
http://www.scssoft.com/techno.php
http://www.americanlonghaul.com/
http://www.eurotrucksimulator.com/
se alguem puder me ajudar.tenho um problema quando vou jogar apareçe o seguinte erro 18 wos haulin.o que devo fazer
this is crap!
To make game work i needed to patch it to v 1.6 . Now program randomly crash.
Here is my specs;
I got a n61j asus laptop
intel i7 720 qm 1.6 Ghz with turbo boost
ati mobility radeon hd 5730 1 gb
winodows 7 ultimate 64 bit