Error message when run Media Player Classic on W98SE

[DRP]

Why do I get this dialog appear everytime I try to run MPC v98me6475 under W98SE?

[au7usa]

Few questions first:

1. Did you make sure to download the correct version for Win98-Me (mpc98me6475.zip)?

There is another version for Win2k-XP (mpc2kxp6475.zip), that uses unicode - something that Win98-Me doesn't understand.

2. Did the previous version work OK? - MPC 6.4.7.4 / MPC 6.4.7.3

3. Does Windows Media Player work OK? (Media Player Classic is uses a lot of resources that are already on your system)

[DRP]

Few questions first:

1. Did you make sure to download the correct version for Win98-Me (mpc98me6475.zip)?

Yes absolutely. My computer - the one I'm typing this on - is W2K, so I'm aware that there are different versions of MPC for the two OS streams. MPC works very well here on W2K so I just wanted to do the same thing for my other W98SE machine. I definitely have the 98/ME version installed on the W98 machine.

2. Did the previous version work OK? - MPC 6.4.7.4 / MPC 6.4.7.3

I don't know. I haven't tried any earlier versions on the W98SE machine. I only got around to trying to do this for my other computer when v6.4.7.5 came out.

3. Does Windows Media Player work OK? (Media Player Classic is uses a lot of resources that are already on your system)

Yes. The standard WMP v6.4 is working just fine.

[DRP]

Problem now solved. An upgrade of DirectX to version 8.1 (up from 6.1) did the trick. All now working fine.