Graphics issues for DX7/8/9 code, application can't start due to missing d3drm.dll?

Looks like no one else has encountered this or knows about it yet. Any recommendations on where I could ask about this problem

It seems Vista just doesn't yet know how to handle DX7/8/9 applications/games by using DX 9.0L for them instead of DX 10 or something...

I get same mesage. But my app does not use DX, I think..

I am still investigating...

I also had received the error message "missing d3drm.dll" with my brand new notebook using Vista, trying to complete installation of proprietary 3-D modeling software. I called the software company, they said that sometimes the updated "Video Card" driver was not installed with current versions. That is to say my video card company did not have the most current driver for VISTA. So through DELL tech support, I went to : http://www.driverskit.net/dll/get/494.html and downloaded the "d3drm.dll" and placed the file in the following path as directed by DELL tech support: c:\windows\system32 . IT WORKED!!!! Good Luck everyone! another problem solved!

I see that no one has figured out why d3drm.dll is missing from windows vista.

Well i've decided to try something different. I downloaded it from the a website i'm not to sure where I should place the missing part.

If any one know I will try it all let everyone know if it worked or not.

Didn't work for me, the game starts now but quickly crashes.

The game in question here is Motocross Madness 2. Midtown Madness 2 also has an issue not sure if its related, but it doesn't even start, the exe is running as seen in the task manager, but never actually starts and it just sits there until i kill it.

then again, i have a very unsupported configuration, i have a Geforce 4 ti 4200, and im using 2k/XP forceware drivers (81.98).

Oddly enough, the games in question worked perfeclty fine on a previous install, before i formatted and reinstalled Vista and all apps again. and never had an issue with the dx file in question before today.

Also, no issues with other directx games, except with doom95 where it requires dplay.dll to be in the games main folder.

I use these old forceware drivers, as for one, Nvidia does not support my card under Vista, and as it's the latest one that works from nvidia, later drivers blue screen when playing movies, and games either refuse to run, or run slow. and i get full hardware opengl support, allowing games like return to castle wolfenstien, doom3, and quake 4 to run, where as those games won't run with the default Vista inbox drivers, even OGL 1.0 games wouldn't work, others games using OGL 1.1 worked fine though, oddly...

I am kinda upset about this myself. I have some real mode games that I wish to play on Vista and was assured by the store where I bought my Vista notebook from that those games were compatible with Vista. Now I find out that they are not.

I have tried installing the d3drm.dll file in the windows/system32 directory and the game actually starts, but crashes out soon after it starts. This is not acceptable. Microsoft should have gone the extra mile to make sure that all games back to the Windows 95 days would work on Vista, or at least any many as possible.

I don't have Vista yet (holding out until I absolutely have to get it...) but I think that once you get past the missing Direct3D DLL, you're running into a missing Indeo Codec issue.

This happened on Windows XP systems before Service Pack 1 or 2 (I can't remember which decided to include the Indeo codec...)

The symptom is that you launch the game, and before it gets to the main menu, it dumps you back to the desktop without any warning or error message. If this is the symptom you're encountering... Try downloading the Indeo Codec and see if it fixes the problem.

http://www.wan-party.com/files/iv5setup.exe

http://www.wan-party.com/faq.php

The reason it's required is because the intro movie to the game requires that Codec. What's funny is, you can disable that movie in the options from the main menu, but you can't get there until you get past the movie during the initial launch after installing.

I haven't checked yet, but there may be a registry setting to disable that movie as well... if there is, you won't have to download the codec (as it may not function properly under Vista either...)

Anyway, try those and see if that gets you into the game. Good luck! Hope it helps...

That One Guy (Team FNG)

downloaded the d3drm.dll from your recomended site and your right it works!!!!!!!!!! thank you i can now use my flight sim cheers mate!