Vista - Chess Titans Issue on startup

I've seen this posted here, but nobody ever had an answer, so I'll ask it
again. When I first installed Vista, Chess Titans worked fine, recently,
however, I get the following message on startup:

could not find texture
(Media/TableWood.dds)

the d3d device has a non-zero reference count, meaning some objects were not
released.

failed creating direct3d device objects

Each is repeated twice, then on the final click, the app closes.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Fairly easy solution;

1) You need to enable "Show hidden files and folders" from the view tab of
the Folder Options. (Instructions to do this are available from "Help and
Support" search for "hidden files")

2) Open Explorer and navigate to;

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft Games\Chess Titans

%USERNAME% is obviously your own windows username

3) Edit ChessTitans.xml; (Right Click the file and select Edit)
Change <Rendering>X</Rendering> (X will be any number other then 0) to
<Rendering>0</Rendering>

Save and close the file start chess titans from the program menu.

it seems this error happens when you set the Graphics quality to the highest
setting enabling the "Smooth edges" option.

"Chris" wrote:

> I've seen this posted here, but nobody ever had an answer, so I'll ask it
> again. When I first installed Vista, Chess Titans worked fine, recently,
> however, I get the following message on startup:
>
> could not find texture
> (Media/TableWood.dds)
>
> the d3d device has a non-zero reference count, meaning some objects were not
> released.
>
> failed creating direct3d device objects
>
> Each is repeated twice, then on the final click, the app closes.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi Brock,

Thanks for replying, but unfortunately, that didn't work. I even tried
uninstalling Chess Titans after trying this, renaming the xml file and
reinstalling. I still got the same error.

Chris

"Brock" wrote:

> Fairly easy solution;
>
> 1) You need to enable "Show hidden files and folders" from the view tab of
> the Folder Options. (Instructions to do this are available from "Help and
> Support" search for "hidden files")
>
> 2) Open Explorer and navigate to;
>
> C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft Games\Chess Titans
>
> %USERNAME% is obviously your own windows username
>
> 3) Edit ChessTitans.xml; (Right Click the file and select Edit)
> Change <Rendering>X</Rendering> (X will be any number other then 0) to
> <Rendering>0</Rendering>
>
> Save and close the file start chess titans from the program menu.
>
> it seems this error happens when you set the Graphics quality to the highest
> setting enabling the "Smooth edges" option.
>
> "Chris" wrote:
>
> > I've seen this posted here, but nobody ever had an answer, so I'll ask it
> > again. When I first installed Vista, Chess Titans worked fine, recently,
> > however, I get the following message on startup:
> >
> > could not find texture
> > (Media/TableWood.dds)
> >
> > the d3d device has a non-zero reference count, meaning some objects were not
> > released.
> >
> > failed creating direct3d device objects
> >
> > Each is repeated twice, then on the final click, the app closes.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?