Cannot Start TNM

[Hilscher]

I have vanilla Deus Ex game of the year edition installed with no mods besides TNM installed. I installed all the TNM patches and it did not resolve the issue. I also restarted and that did not solve the issue.

When I launch TNM, this is what I see:
http://i53.tinypic.com/2vsm1c3.png

It appears to be a glitched out 3d environment moving around, but as I've never run it without seeing this black and white boxy screen of doom I don't know what it's supposed to be. Deus Ex still runs fine, post installation. But I cannot run TNM at all, and in fact it crashes after about 15 seconds.

I'm running Windows 7.

And whatever happened to guest forum posts to post issues? Required forum registrations are draconian and frustrating and unnecessary.

[bobby 55]

Change your renderer. Also registration was implemented due to the proliferation of spammers, which has dramatically reduced since it's inception.

[Jonas]

Required forum registrations are draconian and frustrating and unnecessary.

Draconian? Yes. Frustrating? Sometimes. Unnecessary? No.

Bobby nailed it on both counts. Changing your renderer ought to fix it.

[Hilscher]

Okay thanks. That sounds right, but how do I change the renderer? I switched the renderer in the Deus Ex safemode dialogue but I think that only changed it for Deus Ex. Still having the problem with TNM. Couldn't find a setup or anything in the TNM directory.

[bobby 55]

You can do it via the TMN ini. Find the heading "Game Rendering Device", if it has D3D change it to OpenGL which TNM already has installed. Obviously it's the other way around if OpenGl is the current renderer.

[Hilscher]

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GameRenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice

What do I change the value to, exactly?

[bobby 55]

GameRenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice.

[Hilscher]

GameRenderDevice=D3D8Drv.D3DRenderDevice

I put in this, and it did get me some progress. I can actually start it and see the menu now, but it's really choppy and slow. I will remove the '8'.

These are my safemode rendering options, if it is any help.

[bobby 55]

You could try this. It helps DX with modern systems. http://kentie.net/article/dxguide/

[Hilscher]

Changed it to this:
GlideDrv.GlideRenderDevice

Copied that from my Deus Ex ini file and pasted it into TNM one. No slowness or choppiness now, just windowed mode. I can live with this, but fullscreen would be better. Going to tinker, it might be as easy as changing the option in-game.

Thanks bobby.

[bobby 55]

No probs, I hope you can get it set up to your liking.

[Boltersdriveer]

Hello, based on your screen I'm assuming you're running DX 1.0.0. You should definitely update this to v1.112fm.

[nerdenstein]

I have vanilla Deus Ex game of the year edition installed with no mods

I was definately a rendering issue. I would ask for details on the spec of the machine but it seems the problem was solved.