Hello guys.

I am reading a series of books (The Expanse by James S. A. Corey) that has several elements awfully similar to EoC and I was compelled to dust off my old CDs and give it a second try (It is really is the best combat space sim, along with IW-1, AND I never finished it).

To my surprise, the game installed and ran with very few problems (the solution to the ones I had were a simple google search away). Another great surprise was finding this active community of users more than a decade after the game's launch and the fact that it is holding surprisingly well in terms of eye candy!

HOWEVER (there isn't always some?) I have some questions about customizing the game a little.

To keep things organized I will ask them in their own thread, beginning with the one that is bugging me more.

I've looked all around and it seems that the DirectX 8 driver for the game is, indeed, a myth, right?
I mean, I saw a lot of people talking about how nice it is but there is a lot more whom just got to crash the game by enabling it. That is my case, whenever I enable it in the Flux.ini and then toggle it on in the config, the game just crash straight to the desktop with Flux.log complaining it can't initialize the graphic engine.
As someone pointed already, it seems to me actually a case of placebo effect. People activated it on the Flux.ini but NOT in the game config and thought it was working. The subjective perception about the graphics enhancement (mostly about light and shading) is another clue it might not be really working.
Can I put it to rest or am I actually missing the good Dx8 stuff?

Sorry for the long babbling and the imperfect english but I was really glad to see I'm not alone here!

Cheers.