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    Disk has a few bad sectors?

    Could I just create an image of the disk?
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    Disk has a few bad sectors?

    Hello everyone, I have two hard drives, one with Ubuntu and the other with Windows Vista. Today I tried to boot up Vista and it took forever and when I got logged in everything was completely unresponsive. I noticed the HDD light blinking every second and decided to check the disk in Ubuntu...
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    Downgrading or emulating an older version of DirectX?

    @Ross Ridge Thank you very much for your big reply, however, when using the virtual machine it is not using software rendering, it is using the native hardware I believe, so how would this solve the problem?
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    Downgrading or emulating an older version of DirectX?

    @SlowSpyder Other people have tried that and have had success, I am just to impatient to do that. I just really want to know what is causing the issue now.
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    Downgrading or emulating an older version of DirectX?

    Thats fine, so based on the information I provided what should I do? Try getting new drivers?
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    Downgrading or emulating an older version of DirectX?

    @FG10K I know what you were saying, I was just replying to this: Where I asked why it would be a game issue and you said: Also if it is not a DirectX issue, then it must be driver issues for the GPU between the XP and Vista version, because if playing the game natively on XP (where it is...
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    Downgrading or emulating an older version of DirectX?

    I am not sure, but it seems if people emulate XP with virtual machine or something the problem is resolved. That would not be a game issue, it would be a hardware accelerator or DirectX issue.
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    Downgrading or emulating an older version of DirectX?

    @System_Mechanic I tried 3D Analyzer, for some reason the game crashes when using it, maybe I messed up the settings or something, but it does not seem to work
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    Downgrading or emulating an older version of DirectX?

    Well I understand why you might think that is what is causing the problem, why would it be a driver issue when everyone playing it on Vista has the problem? And also why would it be a game issue when replacing the original D3D9.dll supplied by VISTA with the one supplied by SwiftShader resolves...
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    Downgrading or emulating an older version of DirectX?

    I don't think it is, tons of people have this problem, I runs fine in virtual machine XP using the same system with the same GPU. So it seems very much like a problem with the new versions of DirectX. Just look up the reef bug, everyone using vista has this problem.
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    Downgrading or emulating an older version of DirectX?

    Ok so, i'm trying to play a game called Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, unfortunately the game is pretty old and was made in 2006, when DirectX 9 was used and the are many graphical bugs (such as the reef no show bug) that can not be fixed and are caused by DirectX 10 and up...