Dunno if this has been answered but when I click "Load Graph" on this, the first time I've tried DShow Viewer, I get some error boxes:
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DShow Viewer
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A problem with your configuration prevented a directshow graph from being built
Rendering error detected in rendering MP3 -
If you made some changes go back and undo them.
If this is the first run of the program, it apparently detected a major issue.
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OK
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then i get---------------------------
DShow Viewer
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A problem with your configuration prevented a directshow graph from being built
Rendering error detected in rendering MPEG
If you made some changes go back and undo them.
If this is the first run of the program, it apparently detected a major issue.
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OK
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followed by---------------------------
DShow Viewer
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A problem with your configuration prevented a directshow graph from being built
Rendering error detected in rendering SPEEC
If you made some changes go back and undo them.
If this is the first run of the program, it apparently detected a major issue.
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OK
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and finally---------------------------
DShow Viewer
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A problem with your configuration prevented a directshow graph from being built
Rendering error detected in rendering SOUND
If you made some changes go back and undo them.
If this is the first run of the program, it apparently detected a major issue.
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OK
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and I get nothing at all in the right hand side of the main window, just the list of filters on the left. When I attach to X3 as per the instructions (the aspiring explorer bit) I get a number of reds, the only codec related ones appearing to be MPEG Layer-3 Audio Decoder and Unimodem Serial Wave Driver.---------------------------
DShow Viewer
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A problem with your configuration prevented a directshow graph from being built
Rendering error detected in rendering MPEG
If you made some changes go back and undo them.
If this is the first run of the program, it apparently detected a major issue.
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OK
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Worth noting that the game had been running apparently fine until I updated my ATI Catalyst drivers from 5.13 to 6.1. I did uninstall the drivers, go into safe mode, used Driver Cleaner to erase them all, rebooted normally, installed new Cats, rebooted then rebooted again to be safe.
Now what happens is i load into the game, I get the audio for the DeepSilver and Egosoft splash movies but dont see any video. When I go into the menu the jumpgate effects behind the large X on the right are missing. On loading a save game or starting a new game, it seems fine until I try and do something that involves the little display in the top right so that's comms or trading that I can think of, then the game hangs forcing a reset button jab mostly or sometimes I can get task manager up with Control Alt and Delete and kill it that way.
I did use driverclean to get the 6.1 Catalyst drivers out and reinstall the 5.13's but it hasn't made any difference, my favourite game still broken

Anyone shed some light on this?
TIA
EDIT: changed some wording for clarity