"Direct3D failed to initialize" with recent AMD drivers.

Sepulcher · (This post was last modified: 03-20-2014, 01:02 PM by Sepulcher.)

Okay, so I have tried everything I can think of. Restarting, reinstalling DirectX, reinstalling my video drivers, different versions (stable and latest), EVERYTHING. I absolutely cannot get this to stop. I even checked registry values, ran dxdiag, still no dice.
Dolphin just refuses to load at all. it always gives me this message and then crashes.
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I have tried everything. It happened after I updated my AMD Radeon HD drivers. And before anyone asks, yes, I did try OpenGL. All it does is crash upon initialization.

Any help would be appreciated.

***MayImilae*** · 03-20-2014, 01:07 PM #2

Roll back to the old drivers?

Sepulcher · (This post was last modified: 03-20-2014, 01:10 PM by Sepulcher.)

I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that. :/ Dolphin is literally the only thing doing this.

***Shonumi*** · 03-20-2014, 01:51 PM #4

(03-20-2014, 01:09 PM)Sepulcher Wrote: I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that. :/ Dolphin is literally the only thing doing this.

Dolphin is also probably literally the only GC/Wii emulator you're running on your computer also.

Unless there's something downright awesome and must-have with the latest AMD drivers, it shouldn't make a big difference to roll back for a bit and wait for the issue to be resolved in future driver releases (or Dolphin revisions if it turns out to be Dolphin's fault).

Sepulcher · 03-20-2014, 02:05 PM #5

The reason I said that is because this driver update gives me a lot of fixes I was waiting for. It would be a shame to have to roll back for one program.

***Shonumi*** · 03-20-2014, 02:42 PM #6

You're going to have to pick your poison unfortunately Sad

Sepulcher · 03-20-2014, 02:59 PM #7

That sucks. Sad

Well, thanks anyways guys.

**JMC47** · (This post was last modified: 03-20-2014, 04:32 PM by JMC47.)

I can confirm it; I thought it was just my graphics card being too old. I guess I'll get to debug this later on.

Edit; OGL was working fine; it was just D3D not working, dunno what to say about that being broken.

Sepulcher · 03-20-2014, 04:45 PM #9

Yeah, strangely enough, my OpenGL randomly stopped crashing. But sadly, OpenGL is slow on Fountain of Dreams on my hardware while Direct3D handles it fine. Which sucks because I now have to ban that stage when I play Melee singles on my laptop. Sad

**JMC47** · 03-20-2014, 06:38 PM **#10**

I blame AMD. Sorry there's nothing more we can do for you until we figure out what they did.