is there any point?

[hurricane3]

I had a computer made for me that will run most anything with all sliders maxed.

 When I first got it FE1,CFS2 and FS9 all said they had missing DLL files( they are on an external Hard drive 2tb).CFS3 and IL2 Forgotten Battles ran fine and still do I redownloaded FS9 and CFS2 on my 1tb internal HD and they run fine.

 I put my sims outside of the program files run as administrator in XP service pack 2,with UAC off.

I tried to redownload FE1 fully patched and when I got to the action screen it said it was missing a dll file and wouldn't run.I read that Microsoft took that dll out of Windows 7 which I'am running.

 I don't understand why CFS2@3 and IL2 Forgotton battles run fin plus FS9 run great but FE1 won't.

 Bottom line is ,is it worth trying to get FE1 to work? Or should I go with ROF or OFF? Thankyou

[DoctorQuest]

It might help if you tell us the name of the DLL. It sounds like a directx install issue.

[hurricane3]

Sorry I should have done that but since I unistalled FE1 I had forgotton the name of the DLL but I found it written down ,it's d3drm.dll

By the way how can I get my Hurricane avitar ,to not look like it was smoshed in a vise?

[JRP1973]

That's a Direct X issue....reinstall Direct X     http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

Edited August 5, 2013 by Rocketman73

[hurricane3]

I currently have direct X 11 ,will downloading 9c hurt this?

[+Stephen1918]

I went through this when I upgraded to Windows 7. Installing a lower version of DirectX does not affect how the higher version runs. 

 

The avatars want to be square, so your Hurricane is being smashed from a rectangle into a square. Try adding some white space to the top and bottom of the image to make it a square.

[hurricane3]

OK ,now FE! works ,thankyou all so much. I don't know how to add white space to the top and bottom of my avatar ,could you give me some pointers?

[33LIMA]

Your Hurricane avatar looks fine to me hurricane3...just like the old FROG kit in fact, built one many years ago, tho mine was moulded in black plastic not grey...

 

[hurricane3]

It only looks that way in the header for the message box and on the homepage,but it's no biggy,at least people like you know what a Hurri. is supposed to look like. Thanks for the reply.