no display of 3d alchemy visualizations

Can anybody tell me why the 3D Alchemy visualizations
from the fun pack do not appear in WMP9 when all the
others do? The blogging plugin works fine!

I have a Geforce MX440 graphics card.

Because I wrote the blogging plugin to not require anything special, but
the 3D Alchemy plug-in (written by someone else) requires that your video
card & driver support Direct3D really well. If your video system doesn't
support Direct3D well - you'll see exactly the results you're getting.

You may want to check
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
and/or your video card vendor's site for driver updates... that may or may
not help.

-Zach
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"Eddie" <eddie@bellia.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Can anybody tell me why the 3D Alchemy visualizations
> from the fun pack do not appear in WMP9 when all the
> others do? The blogging plugin works fine!
>
> I have a Geforce MX440 graphics card.

How exactly does a P4 PC with 850 chipset, a GeForce 3 Ti with the
latest (42.x) NVidia Detonators, 256MB RAM, and a clean install of
Windows XP with all the hotfixes *not* "support Direct3D well"?
What's happening is that after installing this "creativity" pack, the
3D Alchemy doesn't even appear on the list of WMP9 plugins. Going to
the Start menu and clicking on the alchemy entry in the correct
program group causes an immediate GPF a la XP (Send/Don't Send error
report) on the cab-file self extractor. Don't tell me that this is
D3D related. No way.

BTW, I have many D3D games that work perfectly well.


"zachd [ms]" <zachd@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<#UeV5q#PDHA.1072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> Because I wrote the blogging plugin to not require anything special, but
> the 3D Alchemy plug-in (written by someone else) requires that your video
> card & driver support Direct3D really well. If your video system doesn't
> support Direct3D well - you'll see exactly the results you're getting.
>
> You may want to check
> http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
> and/or your video card vendor's site for driver updates... that may or may
> not help.
>
> -Zach
> --
> (speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
> See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> Following up to your post with the resolution is good netiquette.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> All e-mail to this account will bounce or be deleted - *use the newsgroups*.

But you aren't Eddie, are you? Obviously you're going through something
completely different than him, and as such my advice would not apply to you.
I'm wrong enough when I'm talking to the right person, no need to stretch my
comments to apply to stuff I wasn't talking about. The fact that you
can't *install* the plug-in means that the installer is blocking you, not
your video setup. Sadly, that's an InstallShield installer, and offhand I
don't know how you'd poke into that and extract the files you want if the
installer is crashing on you.

I would suspect that mpvis3d.dll is the vis file in question, so you could
likely obtain that file from a friend who's installed this and then register
that on your machine.

-Zach
--
(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
Following up to your post with the resolution is good netiquette.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
All e-mail to this account will bounce or be deleted - *use the newsgroups*.
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"Cobra95" <kjsuarez@msn.com> wrote in message
news:7fc75702.0307250458.1be9e1d4@posting.google.com...
> How exactly does a P4 PC with 850 chipset, a GeForce 3 Ti with the
> latest (42.x) NVidia Detonators, 256MB RAM, and a clean install of
> Windows XP with all the hotfixes *not* "support Direct3D well"?
> What's happening is that after installing this "creativity" pack, the
> 3D Alchemy doesn't even appear on the list of WMP9 plugins. Going to
> the Start menu and clicking on the alchemy entry in the correct
> program group causes an immediate GPF a la XP (Send/Don't Send error
> report) on the cab-file self extractor. Don't tell me that this is
> D3D related. No way.
>
> BTW, I have many D3D games that work perfectly well.
>
>
> "zachd [ms]" <zachd@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:<#UeV5q#PDHA.1072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> > Because I wrote the blogging plugin to not require anything special,
but
> > the 3D Alchemy plug-in (written by someone else) requires that your
video
> > card & driver support Direct3D really well. If your video system
doesn't
> > support Direct3D well - you'll see exactly the results you're getting.
> >
> > You may want to check
> > http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
> > and/or your video card vendor's site for driver updates... that may or
may
> > not help.
> >
> > -Zach
> > --
> > (speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
> > See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> > Following up to your post with the resolution is good netiquette.
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> > All e-mail to this account will bounce or be deleted - *use the
newsgroups*.

"zachd [ms]" <zachd@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<u#oLOBIVDHA.2288@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> But you aren't Eddie, are you? Obviously you're going through something
> completely different than him, and as such my advice would not apply to you.

No, I'm not Eddie. But I thought maybe the problem was the same. (I
re-read his post, and it's not very detailed.) No matter. I'm a bit
frustrated, because typically I don't have many such problems, and
when I do, I can trace the cause without much difficulty. This is the
only thread out here in Google-land that seems to come close. Oh,
well. I appreciate your reply. Thank you. :-)