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[EHood]

Long story short, owing to a graphics card problem, someone here recommended that I convert the video mode in my BAT installation from OpenGL to DirectX. I have tried this, repeatedly, but each time I click on "Apply," the sim will CTD for about one second, then restart. For about another second, the Video Mode menu returns, with an "are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this?" window. Before I can click "Yes," however, the sim CTDs again, then restarts again - in Open GL mode, presumably the default setting. Is it at all possible to change the mode to Direct X? Am I missing a step? Something in conf.ini?

As always, I would be grateful for any assistance.

[Fresco23]

Yes i have this problem..... it can take several tries. What version do you run? GAme version. (4.12.2, UP3, etc?)

[EHood]

 fresco23 - Howzit? 

BAT 3.3.1

I also have the "stock" 4.13.4 version on my hard drive. That version works perfectly well but, well, it's just not BAT. 

[Flying H]

You should do the changes in conf.ini file.As I´m a nVidia user I don´t really know what to change but it should be at least one of these three lines
GL=Opengl32.dll
Open GL=Opengl32.dll
DirectX=dx8wrap.dll below the braceted [GLPROVIDER] and [GLPROVIDERS] sections. I´m sure you can find the answer in the forum if you do a serach. And don´t forget make shure the file isn´t set to "read only"!

[Jimbo947]

Try here  , worked for me

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,9756.60.html

[EHood]

Thank you, Jimbo. As a matter of fact, I have read that thread, and these are some of the settings already present in my conf.ini:

[GLPROVIDER]
GL=Opengl32.dll

[GLPROVIDERS]
Open GL=Opengl32.dll
DirectX=dx8wrap.dll

I also printed a copy of the DirectX settings recommended by Storebror. My BAT installation, however, still refuses to convert to DirectX. The situation is still as I described it at the beginning of this thread: CTD, and the sim resets itself to OpenGL.

[vpmedia]

use

[GLPROVIDER]
GL=dx8wrap.dll

this part

[GLPROVIDERS]
Open GL=Opengl32.dll
DirectX=dx8wrap.dll

is the same for everybody

[EHood]

Thank you very much, vpmedia. Changing the [GLPROVIDER] setting did the trick. This put the sim in the DirectX mode, and a brief QMB test showed that the ground texture anomaly does not appear in this mode. As to what the rest of the sim will do in DirectX, a mode I haven't used in about 13 years of flying Il-2, only time and experience will tell.

I'm also grateful to everyone else who contributed. So far, so good....