I recently got a brand new Windows 8 computer. I've been attempting to play RO on it to little success. The game will run, but it's not playable. First of all, I've tried using the help threads and Googling this issue. This has led me to several attempts at rectifying the situation.
Here's what happens:
When I start the game in full screen mode it tells me that it cannot init d3d or GRF. I have checked for drivers updates and installed DirectX. The problem persists. Now, when I try to play it in windowed mode...it works, but the window is way too small on all resolutions outside of my maximum resolution (which is 3200x1800.) When I attempt to run it, in windowed mode, on any resolution higher than 2048x1152 (up to and including my max res) it gives me the same 3d3 error.
What I've tried:
Downloading new graphic card drivers. Downloading Directx. WinXP compatibility mode. Scaling down my resolution (for which the strangest thing happened. The window size stayed the same at each respective resolution despite my desktop res being smaller. Makes no sense to me.) Setting my own custom resolution smaller than 3200x1800 but larger than 2048x1152. Full screen and windowed. Various resolutions, and all of the D3D/HAL settings.
I'm pretty sure that's everything that I've tried. Please help, I recently purchased VIP and it's just kind of sitting there getting wasted as I've been unable to solve this problem for the last few days now. Thank you.