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 From:  Mikko (MIKEN72)
457.1 
Hey, I tried to install Moi but got "Unable to create Direct3D9 dvice. Is it because I use Parallel´s Desktop emulator? It is up to date.
I have the latest Direct9 and my Mac is te latest iMac Power PC. 

According what I was able to see your UI is great.

Error report attached.

Many thanks in advance and have a great day!

All the best:
Mikko
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 From:  Michael Gibson
457.2 In reply to 457.1 
Hi Mikko, yeah unfortunately MoI will not run under Parallels because Parallels is not able to transparenty emulate your video card as far as 3D graphics features goes (2D is emulated ok). So under that environment Windows thinks that it is running without any accelerated 3D hardware, and Direct3D which MoI uses for its 3d display does not have a software-emulation mode, it only runs on hardware acceleration.

So no 3D hardware acceleration means no MoI display.

The only way that I know of that will work right now is to use an Intel-based Mac and boot it to Windows - then MoI should run fine.

I saw some mention on the Parallels web site that they are going to attempt to do some kind of video hardware emulation layer in a future version, so this might get better with a future verson of Parallels.

- Michael
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